San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John C. Cabaniss Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 00620
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twelve letters written by John C. Cabaniss, a proprietor of the Folsom Street coal yards in San Francisco, California to his mother, Mrs. Nancy Hill [Nancy Sink Cabaniss Hill] in Franklin County, Virginia. Cabaniss moved to San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Most of his letters mention that he is coming home soon, is in good health and the business is doing well. For a time, a friend from home, Moses G. Noble, lives with him. The letters also mention...
Dates:
1851-1855
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Pocket Diaries of Merchant's Wife
Collection
Identifier: SC 01548
Scope and Contents
Three pocket diaries written in 1869-1870 and 1874. The first diary, from 1869, focuses on the writer's daily life in Massachusetts. She writes about her activities such as music lessons, visits from friends, commemorating the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, attending lectures at the Ladies' Physiological Institute, going to the Anti-Slavery Convention at the Horticultural Hall, and seeing photograph exhibits. She also mentions writing letters to Erastus, who has gone to San...
Dates:
1869-1870; 1874
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Sarah M. Severance Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: SC 00837
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook of Sarah M. Severance (b. 1835) documenting her visit to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California through postcards and detailed description.
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center