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Alfred B. Summers papers
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Alfred B. Summers papers
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 330 items from approximately 1875 to 1909, it consists of letters, documents, 17 field books, survey notes, and maps related to various California mines in Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Yuba counties.
mssSummers
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Survey field books
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 330 items from approximately 1875 to 1909, it consists of letters, documents, 17 field books, survey notes, and maps related to various California mines in Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Yuba counties.
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J. W. Stow papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of letters and some documents related to the examination of quartz mines in Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne counties, California, as well as several mines in Nevada. Many of the letters are addressed to Stow, but there are also a few addressed to Edward J. Pringle and others. The primary authors of the letters are W. A. Williams and Joseph Lee.
mssHM 64102-64141
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J. W. Stow papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of letters and some documents related to the examination of quartz mines in Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne counties, California, as well as several mines in Nevada. Many of the letters are addressed to Stow, but there are also a few addressed to Edward J. Pringle and others. The primary authors of the letters are W.A. Williams and Joseph Lee.
mssHM 64102-64141
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Joseph Pownall papers
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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Dunning family papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 51 items which consits of correspondence between members of the Dunning family from 1853 to 1872, with the bulk of the collection falling between 1853-1860. Benjamin P. Dunning is the central figure in this collection; he wrote thirty-three of the letters and received six. There are eleven other authors in the collection, most significantly, his older brother Hiram A. Dunning. The letters describe the conditions of various mining camps in northern California, mainly those in Calaveras and Yuba counties, comment on the conditions and hardships of mining as well as furnish details on prices for mining supplies and food. They also illustrate several aspects of the California Gold Rush experience including prices of mining claims; the vicissitudes of postal service; the legend of Joaquín Murieta; the struggle with Chinese miners; and descriptions of sea voyages from New York to California via South America and the Isthmus of Panama. Some of Benjamin Dunning's letters discuss the severe illness and death of his beloved sister, Abby, in Maine, while some of Hiram Dunning's letters discuss the death of his wife and baby in childbirth in California. The collection includes a pictorial letter sheet titled "The What Cheer House, San Francisco, Cal," with related autograph letter. Importantly, the pictorial letter sheet is not listed in either Joseph Baird Jr.'s California Pictorial Letter Sheets 1849-1869 (1967), or the Catalogue of the Collection of Henry H. Clifford California Pictorial Letter Sheets (1994). The collection includes six folders of ephemera, including two trade cards (one from The What Cheer House, and the other for The Broadway Wood and Coal Yard in San Francisco), two letter fragments, and various handwritten receipts. The collection also contains a promissory note, a judicial record, and a receipt book of personal accounts. There is a handwritten obituary for Hiram Dunning's wife, Mary Frances, which includes a pressed flower petal.
mssHM 70310-70360