August and Elisabeth Scharf family letters from California
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Description
- Title
- August and Elisabeth Scharf family letters from California
- Creator
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Scharf, August
Scharf, Elisabeth - Contributor
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Scharf, August
Scharf, Elisabeth - Published / Created
- 1853-1863
- Abstract
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Six autograph letters (1853-1856) from August Scharf and his wife to her parents in Hermann [Missouri?] written after their arrival in California. The letters discuss their ranch, August's work in the mines, trouble with Elisabeth's brothers, financial difficulties, and Elisabeth's death. One letter contains an addendum by August's friend Jakob Schneider and wife. The Scharf letters are accompanied by three autograph letters dated 1860-1863, one from Alwine Scharf Weber to her brother from Naumburg, Germany containing family news, another from Gottlob Sachse Shuhmacher to his friend August Scharf from Nebra, near Naumburg, asking for news of his brother-in-law, and a third from Charles Robert Kleine to [August?] Scharf from San Francisco mentioning that he had visited Scharf's little son.
- Description
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August Scharf, his wife Elisabeth, and her three brothers made an overland journey to California in 1853 from Hermann (possibly Hermann, Missouri, a German settlement). The Scharfs lived in Grizzly Flat, where they had a farm and had shares in a gold mill. Elisabeth died in August 1856, two months after having a third child, their first girl.
Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2000. - Extent
- 9 items.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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German
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA MSS S-2380 Sch17
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
- Correspondence
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic)
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California--Gold discoveries
Hermann (Mo.) - Subject (Name)
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Scharf, August
Scharf, Elisabeth - Subject (Topic)
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German Americans--California
Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- August and Elisabeth Scharf Family Letters from California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4647349
- Object ID (OID)
- 17259051
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