An account of his voyage from Pike, New York to California by way of Panama to work in the gold mines. When his health was failing, he took up farming of onions as a livelihood; he discovered this occupation had its hazards in the dry season. He did not marry, and decided that after seventeen years, he would remain in California.
Subject (Geographic):
California--History--1846-1850, Panama, Isthmus of (Panama), Sacramento City (Calif.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Ancient Order of Knighthood of the Ark (California), Northerner (Steamship), Van Slyke, David, Van Slyke, Martin, Van Slyke, Menso, Van Slyke, Norman, Van Slyke, Peter, Van Slyke, William S, and West Wind (Steamship)
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--California, Gold mines and mining--California, and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript and signed by Jones, George Hyde, 1st Alcalde of San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff, and Jasper O'Farrell; seven property sale agreements between Jones and Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker, and a duplicate copy of a lease between Jones and Jeremiah Canty; fifteen receipts for land surveys conducted for Jones by William M. Eddy; seven summonses, judgments, tax receipts, etc.; and three maps of Jones's real estate holdings in San Francisco, mounted on paper and bound together. Several of the documents refer to Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was called prior to March 1847.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke.
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.) and San Francisco (Calif.)--Surveys
Subject (Name):
Canty, Jeremiah, Eddy, William M, Hyde, George, 1819-1890, Jones, Elbert P, Leidesdorff, William Alexander, 1809 or 10-1848, O'Farrell, Jasper, Parker, William C. fl. 1848-1851, and Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894
Mitchell, Edward H. Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company
Published / Created:
c1915
Call Number:
BrSides Zc72 915nj
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A panoramic nighttime view of the brightly-lit exposition buildings, dominated by the Tower of Jewels, with San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island in the background.
Publisher:
Edward H. Mitchell
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Architecture., Buildings., Exhibition buildings., Pavillions, and World's fairs.
