Manuscripts

Miscellaneous materials on early Tuolumne County, Calif

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Description: Group of items related to the early history of Tuolumune County and particularly Sonora, California. Includes lists of members and membership applications (with dates of arrival in California from abroad, including Peru) for the Pioneer Society of Tuolumne County, as well as membership lists and receipts for the Sonora Hose Company No.1 fire department. Also includes an indenture for land in Mono County, California; a trading license from Esmeralda County, Nevada; a letter to the Tuolumne County Court of Sessions regarding a public road along the Stanislaus River; and an indictment in People vs. Jose Carralles (grand larceny horse theft, Sonora, California).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1850-1868.
Call number: mssHM 74139-74153
Provenance: Purchased from N. Anderson, September 1, 1937.

Letters and documents related to quartz and gold mining in Tuolumne and Placer Counties, California

Manuscripts

Materials on quartz and gold mining operations mainly in Tuolumne County and Placer County, California. Items include an 1884 letter to Henry G. Wetmore from Charles L. Lang of the Rising Sun Mine in Placer County in which he writes of "the idiotic manner in which my partner Comstock is running the mine;" an 1876 letter from C.J. Moore asking Wetmore to invest in the harness leather trade; an 1877 letter from C.J. Pilsbury to Wetmore with mining engineering instructions; an 1888 letter from E.A. Roberts to Wetmore about selling a mine in Sonora; an 1877 letter to Wetmore from Sam Rudolph at the Bower Cave Mine in Colorado regarding quartz testing; an 1880 description of the Well Rough Mine and statements regarding the collapse of the Soulsbyville Mill; an indenture between the Duchow brothers and Wetmore for the Lony Mine; and a printed pamphlet on the Mazeppa Gold Mining Company in Tuolumne County, California.

mssHM 73077-73084

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Map of the Principal Quartz and Gravel Mines in Tuolumne County, California : Taken from Government Surveys and Mining Records by J. P. Dart, Mining Engineer

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The foothill area between the Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers. Varnished surface. MS Note: J. B. Pownall. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. References: Phillips, p. 857. Verso Text: MS note: 257026 Stamp: W.D. Walkup & Co. Map, Chart & Card Mounters 540 Clay St. S.F.

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C1.1 - Charts miscellaneous

Visual Materials

C1.1 - Charts miscellaneous - Chart showing Total Annual Discharge of Water in Acre Feet [from four rivers for years 1871 through 1931. Rivers included are The San Joaquin (at Friant Dam), the Merced (at Exchequer Dam), the Tuolumne (at La Grange Dam), and the Stanislaus (at Knights Ferry)].

photCL SCE 02 - 17752

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Petition regarding the Stockton and Sonora Turnpike Road Company

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Petition by Eugene C. Kelty, Angeline Reynolds, Gibbard C. Reynolds, Herman Camp, and Chauncy Johnson of the Stockton and Sonora Turnpike Road Company regarding the construction of a turnpike from Stockton to Sonora. Sent to the Court of Sessions, Tuolumne County, California.

mssHM 74169

Springfield, Tuolumne County

Rare Books

Image is of the town square with a fagpole in the center surrounded by scattered dwellings. There are goats on the low knoll in the foreground, and small hills in the background. "G.H. Goddard del. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853 by G.S. Wells in the Clercks [sic] Office of the Dist. Court of the Northern Dist. of California. Published by G.S. Wells, Sonora May 1853. Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco."--text, below image. Baird notes that this image is either p.1 or p.4 of a letter sheet that also contains "Sonora from the North." Paper color: gray.

48052:101a

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Tuolumne County Water Company: notebook, account book, ephemera

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 1,775 items from 1840 to 1926, it consists of letters, journals, manuscripts, volumes, and maps related to the life and activities of Dr. Joseph Pownall and the Pownall family. The collection contains material concerning the town of Columbia, California, and the Southern mines; business papers of the Tuolumne County Water Company; a narrative of an 1849 overland journey from Louisiana to Mariposa, California; high schools in San Francisco, California, in the 1870s; and information about the University of California in the 1880s. Family members represented in the collection include: Mary C. H. Newell Pownall, Joseph Benjamin Pownall, and Lucy Pownall Senger.

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Miscellaneous materials on early Tuolumne County, Calif

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