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Interesting letters and documents from our collection, scanned and transcribed for online reading. Transcripts have been corrected for spelling and punctuation.

  • 12/12/2006 1878 letter from Huffaker's Station, [Nevada], regarding Chinese lumber workers
  • 11/21/2006 1872 holograph note from RMS Assistant Supervisor Alfred Barstow to Virginia & Truckee Railroad General Superintendent Hume Yerington
  • 11/13/2006 Holograph report on the Dunderberg Mine, Mono County, California, 1872
  • 11/13/2006 1888 shareholder proxy request, San Francisco Gas Light Company
  • 11/5/2006 1894 a.l.s from Wm. Hansbrough to J. J. McClelland of Tombstone, regarding mining claims
  • 10/26/2006 1897 ad for Chinese medicine practitioners Foo & Wing Herb Co., Los Angeles
  • 10/18/2006 1910 holograph letter from Wyatt Earp's wife Josephine to John Flood
  • 10/18/2006 John Flood's file copy of 1924 letter from Wyatt Earp to William Hart
  • 10/17/2006 Bishop Kip's Letter from California. Stay at San Diego. No. 5, 1854.
  • 10/11/2006 Map of Santa Monica Harbor, Showing Site of Proposed City. Ocean Terminus of Los Angeles & Independence Rail Road, 1875.
  • 10/10/2006 1887 Arizona Territory Location Notice, J. W. Berkalew
  • 10/09/2006 1849 Gold Rush letter from Mose Chandler at Valparaiso, en route to California
  • 10/08/2006 W. T. Keenan & Co. circular describing the cattle market for the week ending Saturday, May 25, 1872
  • 10/03/2006 1881 letter to Virginia & Truckee Railroad General Superintendent H. M. Yerington regarding tickets to the Reno Fair
  • 10/03/2006 1860 letter from J. F. Allison to his parents, Trafalgar Bar, [California]
  • 10/03/2006 1886 a.l.s. from H. S. Symons of the Como-Eureka Mine to the Carson Locomotive Works regarding boiler repairs

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