[1872–1936: Kize G. Lamb and Annie P. Koch Lamb Family of California, Archive of 42 Letters plus Miscellaneous Telegrams, Papers and Related Ephemera].


Archive of letters and papers of the Kize Gilchrist Lamb and Annie P. née Koch Lamb Family of California, 1872 to 1936. The majority of the letters were written by or addressed to the Lamb’s daughter, Miss Marie Lamb of Salinas, California. Over half the letters in the archive (23 letters and over 60% of the manuscript pages) were written to her from Frans Hanson of Taft, California.

Other correspondents in this archive include Annie Koch (before her marriage to Kize G. Lamb), Annie Lamb, Mary Denker, Charles Denker, J.H. Burchard, and Francis E. Lamb, son of Kize and Annie Lamb and brother of Marie Lamb. Other places from which the letters were mailed include San Francisco, Salinas, San Ardo, Monterey, and Truckee, California and Bull Head Ranch (Winnemucca), Austin, Carson City, Fallon, Battle Mountain, Tuscarora, and Paradise, Nevada.

Accompanying papers include the 1901 marriage certificate of Kize G. and Annie P. Lamb and some typed and manuscript poetry. Ephemera here includes Christmas cards, calling cards, newspaper clippings, graduation and wedding announcements, and Vol. 1, No. 1 of the W.P.I.C. Bulletin issued by the Women’s Public Information Committee of the Coast Valleys Gas and Electric Company, February 1925.


Description: [1872–1936: Kize G. Lamb and Annie P. Koch Lamb Family of California, Archive of 42 Letters plus Miscellaneous Telegrams, Papers and Related Ephemera].

[Various places in California and Nevada, 1872–1936]. Approx. [132] pages. 8vos. and (mostly) 4tos. 42 Autograph Letters Signed. Four telegrams. Various papers and ephemera. All Very Good to Near Fine.

[3726573]

Price: $450.00