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California Immigration and Settlement Papers
GC 1348
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Title: California Immigration and Settlement Papers
Dates: (Bulk 1846 - 1900)
Collection Number: GC 1348
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 1/2 legal; 2 ov folders)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: An artificial collection includes booklets, correspondence, ephemera, forms, handbills, lithographs, manuscripts and newspaper
accounts relating primarily to the settling of California by the Americans
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
California Immigration and Settlement Papers. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Scope and Content of Collection
An artificial collection includes booklets, correspondence, ephemera, forms, handbills, lithographs, manuscripts and newspaper
accounts relating primarily to the settling of California by the Americans; a manuscript about J.C. Fremont by Jessie Benton
Fremont; excursion literature; papers by immigration organizations; also papers related to settling of the Southwest; also
a letter by a London company sponsoring immigration to the eastern U.S. Also handbill for U.S. Amnesty Program of 1988.
ca. 1846 - 1988, undated (bulk is 19th century)
Mexican War, 1846-1848
California--History