Manuscripts
Milton D. Painter collection
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Correspondence and documents
Manuscripts
A collection of 42 items from 1848 to 1935, it primarily contains documents, such as agreements, deeds, and maps relating to the Painter family and the Pasadena Land and Water Company. The majority of the maps and plats show the land owned or controlled by the Painter family in Southern California. There are also personal letters from John H. Painter and Alonzo J. Painter to Milton D. Painter from the late 1800s.
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Collection of California survey maps
Manuscripts
A collection of six survey maps and plats of various California ranchos, tracts, and properties from 1870 to 1893. The maps are drawn on paper, linen-backed tracing paper, and linen using black and various colors of ink. There are some tears and two of the maps are separated at the seams.
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Milton Frank Kemble Papers
Manuscripts
The bulk of the collection consists of the diaries, account books, weather diaries, and notebooks of Milton Frank Kemble (1829-1888). Of particular interest is the diary Kemble wrote while traveling by train from Iowa to California in 1873. The rest of the collection is of materials from other members of the Kemble family.
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Raymond Hotel (second) and Painter Hotel
Visual Materials
Includes images of the Roy Knabenshue dirigible on site (Items 93-94) and a stereograph of the Painter Hotel (Item 95).
photCL 280
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Milton B. Stevens Correspondence
Manuscripts
This collection contains 62 letters from twenty-six different authors, including Milton B. Stevens, C. K. Dixon and Byron Whitcomb, in mining camps and cities throughout Northern California illustrating aspects of the Gold Rush experience, chiefly from 1849-1864. Milton B. Stevens is the most prolific figure in this collection, as he wrote fifteen of the letters in the collection and was the addressee of twenty. There are, however, twenty-five other authors in these letters, including four women, two of them writing from California. Other significant authors in this collection are: Abbey Stevens (5 letters), Byron Whitcomb (7 letters), and C. K. Dixon (9 letters). The letters mention various mining camps throughout Northern California, such as Fosters Bar, Galena Hill, Murderers Bar, Pilot Hill, Salmon Falls, Weber Creek, and the Klamath River Valley mines. The letters illustrate several aspects of the Gold Rush experience: the journey to California through South America; life in California and the gold camps; gold discoveries, or the lack thereof; the techniques and equipment used in mining; loneliness and longing for home. The letters from Milton B. Stevens' mother tell of the experience of the miners' families back at home in the East. The letter dated 1954 was written by Stephen C. Lyon, who at one time owned the collection. Eighteen of the letters have handwritten or typed transcripts.
mssHM 59471-59532
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Kemble, Milton Frank, 1829-1888. Notebook
Manuscripts
The bulk of the collection consists of the diaries, account books, weather diaries, and notebooks of Milton Frank Kemble (1829-1888). Of particular interest is the diary Kemble wrote while traveling by train from Iowa to California in 1873. The rest of the collection is of materials from other members of the Kemble family.
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