Themes explored include: Texas Empresarios; Americans in California; The Bear Flag Revolt; The Occupation of New Mexico; The Fall of California. Sites surveyed include: The..... Read More about The Texas Revolution and Mexican War. Theme XV, Westward Expansion and the Extension of the...
Letter from the founder of the Catholic institution St. Mary’s College, Brother Sabinian [i.e., John Downey], i.e., an Irishman of birth who died in 1909..... Read More about 1892 Autograph Letter Signed by School Founder John Downey, i.e., Brother Sabinian, writing from...
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Real photo postcard “Made for R.J. Bennetts Nevada City, Cal.” handwritten and postmarked in this California town established during the Gold Rush of 1849. An..... Read More about 1916 Mountaineer Mine. Nevada City, California Real Photo Post Card
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A concurrent resolution likely put forth by California Representative Everis Anson Ayes “prescribing a new form for the American flag.” Hayes first introduced this resolution..... Read More about History of the American Flag:] 62d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 16. In the House of...
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A concurrent resolution likely put forth by California Representative Everis Anson Ayes “prescribing a new form for the American flag.” Hayes had first introduced this..... Read More about History of the American Flag:] 63d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 6. In the House of...
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..... Read More about 1872–1936: Kize G. Lamb and Annie P. Koch Lamb Family of California, Archive of 42 Letters plus...
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Rare patriotic 1866 political campaign broadside urging votes for John W. Geary (1819–1873), running for Pennsylvania governor against his opponent Hiester Clymer and Clymer’s white..... Read More about For Governor, Maj. Gen. John W. Geary. [1866 Political Campaign Broadside
Editor Dobyn’s states “the principal value of the Couts journal lies…in its frank and detailed description of the professional officer corps in the United States..... Read More about Hepah, California! The Journal of Cave Johnson Couts From Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los...
Rare title ostensibly offering travelers’ advice on visiting and organized coach itineraries of New York City, but whose main purpose was to promote performances of..... Read More about New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown
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U.S. Post Office announcement by First Assistant Postmaster General Preston S. Sanford concerning the transmission of funds via postal money orders to American soldiers and..... Read More about 1898, Spanish-American War broadside:] (No. 6243.) Postal Money Orders Drawn in favor or...
Unusual love letter from 1849 California Gold Rush pioneer and lawyer, James B. Townsend, here writing to his beloved “Josie C.” Townsend is listed as..... Read More about 1879 Autograph Letter Signed by Lawyer James B. Townsend, 1849 Member of Gold Rush of Society of...
Illustrated, four-page advertisement for Grizzly Adams, a western frontier-themed play: “No Shooting or Yelling Indians, But a Truthfully Depicted Idyl of American Life on the..... Read More about Goodrich & Thode’s Company…Idyl of American Life on the Borders of Civilization entitled...
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After the California Gold Rush of 1848–1855, gold bullion was minted in San Francisco into official United States coins. Some of these coins and gold..... Read More about Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular
Beale’s preliminary report upon his arrival in California after a 48-day journey to explore a suitable route for wagons from Fort Defiance, New Mexico to..... Read More about Report of the Secretary Of War, Communicating ... A Report of E. F. Beale of his Exploration for...
1850s California stock certificate printed for the Eureka Quartz Mining Company of Eldorado County, California. Gold deposits commonly occur in quartz veins. In the immediate..... Read More about Eureka Quartz Mining Company, Eldorado County, California
