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Jas. Buchanan California business [Buchanan family papers, Box 1, Folder 5]
Papers of the Buchanan Family, including two boxes of books, 1 box of photographs, and 2 boxes of correspondence. The collection includes President James Buchanan's 1833 travel diary, letters regarding California business dealings, his admission to…
James Hunter Bull diary
This diary of James Bull of a journey through Mexico and lower and upper California contains data on economic and social conditions, the influence of the Catholic church and Jesuits among the Indians, missions, pearl fisheries, travel, topography of…
William Cummings and Son account books [Volume 1 – Ledger, 1850-1886]
This Philadelphia-based shipping merchant firm specialized in trade with Africa, especially the east coast, but also conducted trade with the West Indies, California, and China. These ledgers list hundreds of local and overseas merchants, types of…
George Mifflin Dallas diary
Photostat of Vice President George M. Dallas' diary of the last few months of James K. Polk's administration, including an account of Senate politics, tariff controversy, territorial expansion, gold discovery in California.
Proceedings of the Democratic State Convention, held in Sacramento City, the 23d. of February, 1852.
Josiah Foster Flagg papers
Diary, 1849, and letters, 1849-1855, of Josiah Foster Flagg on a trip to California and residence there during gold-rush days. There are letters, 1821-1824, of Adin G. Craft and a diary of John Foster Brewster Flagg, 1859, kept during a trip to…
John H. Gihon unpublished histories of California, Kansas, Mexico, and Texas [volume 1]
The collection includes three manuscripts containing the histories of California, 1534-1850; Kansas, 1857; and of Mexico and Texas, 1845.