Manuscripts
Plot for a tract of land in Mission Dolores
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Mexican and Spanish land grants, Sonora, Mexico
Manuscripts
Documents confirming property rights and holdings in the state of Sonora by Mexican or Spanish royal officials. Most documents concern the Gutierrez family, of San Miguel de Horcasitas and owners of the Rancho San Marcial in Sonora, which may suggest that they collected the documents as a legal record of their property ownership. The documents bear royal or state stamps that establish their bona fide nature. Some documents clearly state that they are copies taken from the originals. The documents are in Spanish.
mssHM 83121 (a-p)
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San Gabriel Mission land abstract of title
Manuscripts
Abstract of title for land tract no. 3 in San Gabriel, California. It is incomplete. Also includes copy of the Articles of Incorporation of the Roman Catholic Church in California.
mssHM 84267
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Bernal Family Papers
Manuscripts
This collection chiefly documents business, legal, financial, and real estate-related activities of the Bernal family and their associates in the San Francisco Bay area of California in the mid-to-late 19th century. The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, financial, and real estate-related transactions initiated by or concerning the Bernal Family and their associates. Included in this series are legal contracts, mortgages, leases, title deeds, promissory notes, tax receipts, and general accounting records. The series also includes materials created and / or signed by California-based administrators, most notably by Jacques Antoine Moerenhout. The Belgian-born Moerenhout served as consul for France in the United States and Tahiti and authored The Inside Story of the Gold Rush (Campbell 85). Also represented is Henry Haight, the San Francisco-based banker and uncle of the tenth governor of California, Henry H. Haight. The chronologically-arranged correspondence includes personal and business letters to and by the Bernal Family members and their associates. Many letters were directed to Geronima Rufino de Bernal, with a minority of letters directed to Carmen Sibrian de Bernal. Two chronologically-arranged portraits comprise their own series. Both portraits were taken by San Francisco-based photographers, Charles Lake Cramer and George Daniels Morse, sometime during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century. Only the sitter in Morse's photograph was named and identified as Luis Ruffino. Finally, ephemera are contained in the last folder of the collection. These items include: a blank indenture form signed by Charles C Moore; a "Compromisos" (or Obligations) printed card, filled in with pencil; an empty envelope addressed to Carmen Sibrian de Bernal, postmarked January 3, 1882; and two business cards, one for Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich and the other for Mr. and Mrs. Forbes.
mssHM 70789-70855
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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - The Graveyard of Mission Dolores, San Francisco's Oldest Graveyard photograph album
Visual Materials
The album is in the form of a portfolio, and contains 9 photographs related to the graveyard of the Mission Dolores in San Francisco, California. Eight of the photographs depict grave markers and memorials in the cemetery, and one is a photograph of a drawing of the Mission, circa 1838. There is also a pamphlet listing pertinent facts about the Mission. The photographs depict, among others, the memorial to Don Luis Antonio Arguello; and the graves of James (Yankee) Sullivan, Don Francisco de Haro (first Alcalde of Yerba Buena), and Charles Cora and his wife, Belle.
photCL 400 volume 20
Dolores V. Trejo journal, 1949-approximately 1961
Manuscripts
Dolores Trejo's entries in this notebook cover the years 1949 to 1954, 1958, and 1960 to 1961. The notebook contains the following: list of insurance payments to John Hancock and Blue Cross; list of expenses for repairs on the house Trejo owned and payments from tenants; personal notes on problems with house, including legal problems; notes on employers Trejo worked with, including both difficulties and benefits of work, and salaries; entry relating to Trejo's letter of 1953 to the San Diego Union that favorably describes her crossing the border in 1935; and evidence of her Christian faith. In one of her last entries, Trejo expresses her wish to return to Mexico. There is also one loose sheet which contains a poem.
mssHM 83444
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Map of the subdivision of the Clement Tract in Los Angeles
Manuscripts
This map, surveyed by John C. Goldsworthy, shows the subdivision of the Clement Tract between San Pedro Street, Pine Street, Clement Street, and Walnut Grove Street in the city of Los Angeles as of September 1887. It is measured in feet, and the scale is one hundred feet per inch.
mssHM 46692