California
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Henry E. Hayes diary
Original and typescript of Henry E. Hayes' diary, which covers his time gold mining near Nevada City, California, his coming to Oregon in 1851, and his activities making shingles in Clackamas County. Hayes (1831-1919), who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, eventually became a steamboat pilot, and had a farm at Stafford, Oregon.
John Bunker Hemey diary
Manuscript diary regarding overland journey from Illinois to California.
H.M.S. Tenedos going into San Francisco
Watercolor sketch of the bark Tenedos in San Francisco Bay.
Samuel Laughlin letters
Photocopy manuscript correspondence to and from Samuel Laughlin and his family in Oregon, California, and Missouri, 1858-1867, regarding family news, crops, livestock, weather, and the Civil War.
David C. Lewis papers
Collection includes surveying notes, Crescent City, California, 1855-1856; letter to David C. Lewis' mother, May 30, 1880, regarding marriage; and marriage certificates for David Lewis and Rebecca Mendenhall, his parents and grandparents.
Horace Lyman diary
Manuscript diary describing Horace Lyman's sea voyage from New York to San Francisco aboard the vessel Whitton and from San Francisco to the Columbia River aboard the Toulon. Lyman (1815-1887) was a congregational clergyman and teacher. He founded the First Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon, in 1851.
Mount Shasta
Hand-colored lithograph depicting Mount Shasta in California.
An octogenarian's childhood on the western frontier
Collection consists of Elizabeth Reed Brent's reminiscences of her childhood in Picard, California, now called Dorris, from the late 1890s to 1906. Brent's family moved from Iowa to Keno, Oregon, in 1891, and she was born in Keno in 1895. From there, the family moved to Picard and later to Chico, California.
Pendleton and Klamath-area photographs
Collection comprises five black-and-white photographs, including aerial views of both Pendleton and Klamath Falls, Oregon, circa 1900, as well as the Klamath Hot Springs Hotel, in Beswick, Siskiyou County, California.
Hayes Perkins diaries
Typescript copies of diaries of Hayes Perkins, titled "Here And There." Entries from 1928 to 1936 detail Hayes's work at San Simeon. Also includes typescript memoir, "Hayes Perkins' last journeys: across the Sahara (1952) and around South America (1955)," and biographical information.