Manuscripts
San Gabriel Wine Co. property map
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Conditions of the sale of land by the San Gabriel Wine Co., March 26th, 1888
Manuscripts
An ms. letter written on printed letterhead of the San Gabriel Wine Co., which has illustrations of the storage cellar and fermenting cellar and distillery at the top of the page, as well as the company logo and the names of the officers. The letter states the terms of sale of half-acre lots of land to the fifteen people who have signed below.
mssShorb papers
Map of the Solano Tract No. 2
Manuscripts
Being a subdivision of Lots 6, 7 and the East half of Lot 5, Block 46, and Lot 2, Block 45, Hancock's Survey of Donation Lots, along Effie St. south of Elysian Park, from Bishop to Solano Ave., Yorktown to Sampson St., with an extension off Solano Avenue SE to Buena Vista Street with subdivision, showing Catholic Cemetery off Bishop Avenue [as does the following map]. Alt title supplied by cataloger.
mssSolano SR_Map_0743.02
San Gabriel Wine Company letterhead
Manuscripts
A piece of printed letterhead from the San Gabriel Wine Co., which has illustrations of the storage cellar and fermenting cellar and distillery at the top of the page, as well as the company logo and the names of the officers. The central logo is a five-pointed star with an arc of vines on either side and a bunch of grapes in the center. Large, ms. letters written perpendicular to the sheet on the verso are legible.
mssShorb papers
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Map of the Bryant Tract, Berkeley, Alameda Co
Visual Materials
Old shelf number: eph J4-5(2). Strawberry Creek wends its way across Addison Avenue in what now is central Berkeley. The text reads, "Berkeley. Has twelve colleges connected with its University, all free." Fifty years later tuition had risen steeply to $42 per semester. Some lots hand colored. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Dreyfus & Co. to San Gabriel Wine Company
Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers
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Map of a part of Santa Anita Tract San Gabriel Valley Los Angeles Co., Cal
Rare Books
Santa Anita Avenue on the west, Mayflower Avenue on the east, County Road (now Duarte Road) to the south, Grand View Avenue to the north. "H. J. Stevenson, Sur. Sept., 1886." "H. A. Unruh 57, North Spring St., Los Angeles." Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Map of Santa Anita 442361.
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