Manuscripts
J. M. Seibert letterbook
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J. A. Graves papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence (including 23 letter books), 3 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, business documents, and financial ledgers related to the life and business activities of Jackson A. Graves. Subject matter includes banking and finance, and much of the business correspondence in the collection is with Isaias W. Hellman (1842-1920), president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles from 1875 to 1920 and president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank in San Francisco from 1890 to 1920. The collection also contains land papers of the Los Angeles area (including materials related to Rancho San Pasqual) and papers of California law firms.
mssGraves
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J. J. Abbott letter to J. P. Carpenter
Manuscripts
Letter, written by J. J. Abbott to his friend and fellow teacher in Alabama, J. P. Carpenter. Abbott describes his journey to Mississippi, the city of Hudsonville, the school at which he is working, some school clubs that he founded, and his intent to attend Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Abbott also gives opinions about the South, slavery, and abolitionists.
mssHM 84005
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Valetine, J. J. (to M-Parsons, 1869-1883 May 20)
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of letters to and from Hosmer B. (Buckingham) Parsons (1846-1908), who joined Wells, Fargo & Company in 1867 and successively held the positions of cashier, assistant secretary, vice-president, and president of the company bank in New York. The papers deal chiefly with the express business: relationships with competing express companies such as American Express, Pacific Express, Northern Pacific Express, Texas Express, etc.; with railroad companies including Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, and others; as well as matters of shipments, rates, and routes. There are also papers that relate to the personal business affairs of Hosmer B. Parsons.
mssWF
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Charles Lummis letters
Manuscripts
Sixteen of the seventeen letters are addressed to Charles Lummis. The authors include: Anthropologist Adolph Bandelier (written from Bolivia), writer Ella Higginson, historian and author J. Franklin Jameson (asking Lummis to write an article on Mexico), Lummis' second wife Eva, Henrietta Lungren (wife of Southwest artist Fernand Lungren), surgeon, ethnographer, and linguist Washington Matthews (about his book Navajo legends), author Grace Ellery Channing Stetson (and wife of artist Charles Stetson), Wells Fargo & Company president John J. Valentine (regarding U.S. politics), and stage actress Louise Wakelee Elliott. There is one letter by Charles Lummis to his wife Eve. This letter was written in 1896 while he was in Mexico.
mssHM 79080-79096
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Letters to J.A. Graves: 1897 (J-Z), 1898 (A-Z)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence (including 23 letter books), 3 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, business documents, and financial ledgers related to the life and business activities of Jackson A. Graves. Subject matter includes banking and finance, and much of the business correspondence in the collection is with Isaias W. Hellman (1842-1920), president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles from 1875 to 1920 and president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank in San Francisco from 1890 to 1920. The collection also contains land papers of the Los Angeles area (including materials related to Rancho San Pasqual) and papers of California law firms.
mssGraves
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Wells Fargo & Co. Express in the United States / drawing by A. M. Vanderpool
Rare Books
A blue line print map of the United States with each Wells Fargo station shown along with the interconnecting railways. List of 216 railroads by number. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Blue line print.
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