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California

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Henry W. Starr diary

 Collection — Folder S1241
Identifier: S1241
Scope and Contents This collection comprises 63 typed pages of the diary of Henry W. Starr, written in 1850, which details Starr's experiences travelling across country to join the Calilfornia Gold Rush. His entries include his observations of animals, terrain, camps, weather, food, and people.
Dates: 1850

Howard Walton Clark articles

 Collection — Folder S261
Identifier: S0261
Scope and Contents This collection includes hand-written and typed papers by Howard Walton Clark, which were written in 1927 and donated in 1948. Four articles are entitled "Utricularia Inflata in California, with Some General Remarks Concerning the Bladderworts." Three of the articles are hand-written and one is typed. A one-page hand-written article is entitled "A Study of Fresh-Water Pearls, Part I, Field Investigation." A two-page, hand-written letter dated March 26, addressed to Barton Warren Evermann,...
Dates: 1927-1948

John Elder papers

 Collection — Folder S417
Identifier: S0417
Scope and Contents This collection includes newspaper excerpts from letters and diaries from Governor James Whitcomb, John Elder and James Elder in Indiana and California ranging from 1845/01/01 to 1850 regarding building construction, daily life and California during the Gold Rush.
Dates: 1845/01/01-1850 December

John Ferris Riker journal

 Collection — Folder S1117
Identifier: S1117
Scope and Contents This is a typed transcript of John Ferris Riker's 1852 journal about his overland trip from Cincinnati to California to participate in the Gold Rush. A copy of the publication, which is 62 pages, is located at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. On the day of their departure, April 5, 1852, John Riker was 23 years old. His relative Aaron Riker was 22 years old, and his friend David Lichliter was 21 or 22. On page 3, John lists the three messes with six men in each. In the second...
Dates: 1852

John Prichet journals

 Collection
Identifier: L130
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three hand written journals (1849-1851) of John Prichet describing his journey from Indiana to California during the Gold Rush. His journals cover his trip from Centreville, Indiana to California by steamboat on the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and overland from Independence, Missouri to California using the Truckee River route; his life in the mining camps near Yuba City and Sacramento, California; and his return trip by ship from San Francisco through Panama, to New...
Dates: 1849-1851

Oliver Draper letter

 Collection — Folder S0379
Identifier: S0379
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter from E. J. and L. Draper to Oliver Draper on February 21, 1873 regarding farming, raising sheep and cattle, and news about family and friends.
Dates: 1873

Raymond and Vesta Kepfer photographic slides

 Collection — Folder SP043
Identifier: SP043
Scope and Contents This collection includes 35mm photographic slides from Raymond and Vesta Kepfer in California in 1975 regarding people, possibly the Kepfers and their family and friends, arid locales in California, and a rose parade, probably the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. There is also one slide of Koenigstuhl in Heidelberg, Germany.
Dates: 1975

Reynolds family letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0914
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence between members of the Reynolds family ranging from 1849-1907. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters written by Verus Reynolds and sent to his Aunt Catherine Reynolds Sheppard. The collection also includes letter sent to Catherine from her mother, Susannah Reynolds; her brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Reynolds; sister Delilah Reynolds; cousins Robert B. Reynolds and John and Jane Elliott; and her nephew Herbert Reynolds and his wife Fanny....
Dates: 1849-1952

Russell V. Fisher papers

 Collection — Folder S467
Identifier: S0467
Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed, signed and typed letters and typed reports and essays from Howard Walton Clark in California and out of the United States, a typed, signed letter from T. J. Maney and from Barton Warren Evermann ranging circa 1926-1940, regarding scientific expeditions, foreign countries, and personal matters.
Dates: 1926-1940, undated

Walter D. Myers photographs

 Collection — Folder SP084
Identifier: SP084
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs of Walter D. Myers in California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Claremore, Oklahoma; Chicago, Illinois; and other unidentified locations in the United States ranging from 1948 to 1952 and undated, depicting him with various people at social and political events, probably as part of his fourth assistant postmaster general duties.
Dates: 1948-1952, undated