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Description: Series includes indentures and other documents regarding mining in California and Arizona. Arranged chronologically.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1897-1924
Call number: HM 62443-62462
Creator: Osborne, Henry Zenas (1848-1923)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Gregory H. Bock, July 1997.; Additional material purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Michael Vinson Western Americana, January 2013.
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Associated people: Bard, Thomas Robert, (1841-1915.); Bassett, Charles F. (1832-1907.); Bowers, Stephen, (1850-1935.); Bulla, Robert N. (1854-); Crocker, Charles Frederick. (1833-1903.); DeYoung, M. H. (1852-1924.); Diehl, Charles Sanford, (1852-1929.); Estee, Morris M. (1837-1904.); Gage, Henry Tifft, (1848-); Grant, Ulysses S., (1821-1900.); Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, (1850-1927.); Hart, William Henry Harrison, (1856-1929.); Huntington, Collis Potter, (1840-1923.); Huntington, Henry Edwards, (1857-1938.); Kerckhoff, William George, (1843-1926.); Kilburn, Paris. (1852-1940.); Markham, H. H., (1840?-1907.); McClatchy, V. S. (1839-1925.); McKenna, J. (1839-1923.); McLachlan, James, (1861-1952.); McLaughlin, Frank, (1853-); Miles, Nelson Appleton, (1866-1914.); Mills, William H.; Perkins, George C.; Shortridge, Samuel Morgan,; Spreckels, John Diedrich,; Willard, Charles Dwight,
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The collection includes 720 pieces of correspondence, 32 receipts and account statements and 15 pieces of ephemera. All receipts and accounts belonged to Henry Z. Osborne and the majority of them are for mining-related expenses. The ephemera is primarily related to politics in general, and California politics in particular, although other interests are also represented. Of note is a book containing photographs of the construction of the harbor in San Pedro, California. The majority of the correspondence is addressed to Osborne, although 24 of the letters were authored by him. Subjects addressed within the correspondence, and the collection as a whole, include: the Associated Press, California politics and government (especially Los Angeles), California's political candidates, the Central Pacific Railroad Company, the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, the Los Angeles Times (and Harrison Gray Otis), William McKinley, mines and mineral resources of Arizona and California (particularly in Trinity County), political patronage in California, California's selection and appointment of public officials, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and the Osborne family. Significant correspondents include: Thomas Robert Bard, Charles F. Bassett, Stephen Bowers, Robert Nelson Bulla, Charles Frederick Crocker, M. H. DeYoung, Charles Sanford Diehl, Morris March Estee, Henry T. Gage, Ulysses S. Grant, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, William Henry Harrison Hart, Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Edwards Huntington, William George Kerckhoff, Paris Kilburn, Henry Harrison Markham, Valentine Stuart McClatchy, Joseph McKenna, James McLachlan, Frank McLaughlin, Nelson Appleton Miles, William H. Mills, George Clement Perkins, Samuel Morgan Shortridge, John Diedrich Spreckels and Charles Dwight Willard.

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