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Sketch Book of the 1880 (23rd) California Legislature
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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This oversize volume contains almost two hundred hand-drawn maps of city blocks in Berkeley, California (including owners' names, tract names, etc.). The block book contains two loose sheets: block map of "Villa Homestead" (Bay Street and Union Avenue, p.12) and "Map of Pine Terrace" (Pine Avenue, Elmwood Avenue, and Webster Street, 1906, p. 178).
mssHM 79256
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The blotter includes land grants and deeds processed in San Francisco District from 1847 to 1849. The grants and deeds are signed by alcaldes George Hyde and Thaddeus Leavenworth. The list includes deeds involving Sam Brannan, John White Geary, Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, William A. Leidesdorff, Robert T. Ridley, and J. D. Stevenson. Some of the entries are accompanied by hand drawn plats.
mssHM 68413
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This manuscript is a hand-drawn color map titled "Plan of Grass Valley", and drawn circa 1860. The map is not signed, and there is no attribution to an artist. There are names on the map based on mining claims and cabins.
mssHM 2278
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In this letter to a colleague, Peters is asking Perkins' opinion on a pauper case that was being heard in Tolland County. The pauper was a slave of a resident of Haddam, Connecticut. The man "became Free by enlisting in the Continental Army." The man was "hired" in Branford, but was counted to fill the Connecticut Line quota apportioned for his master's town, Haddam. Peters inquires whether or not the veteran could be considered a resident of Haddam. He also refers to a similar case involving Colonel Jonathan Welles, which was decided by the Assembly in May 1782. The letter was written from New London, Connecticut.
mssHM 82578
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Accounts of foreign and domestic affairs of Charles I, including the English landing on the Isle of Ré, the Seige of La Rochelle, Privy Council proceedings involving Sir John Corryton, and a description of "the Late deceased Prince of Bohemia."
mssHM 45148
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The scrapbook covers two trips, by train, that Perkins took with Raymond-Whitcomb, Inc. The first is a trip to Colorado and California in 1882 and the second is a trip to Mexico in 1888. The first excursion made stops at Pueblo and Denver, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Yosemite National Park, California. The second excursion made stops at Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Quéretaro, and Mexico City, Mexico. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, postcards, as well as a "Pocket Guide to Mexico," and "Brief Guide to Mexico City." There is also a handwritten reminiscence of the excursions written by Perkins' granddaughter in 1920.
mssHM 68046