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
Black and white key to panorama on mount, underneath color illustration.
Publisher:
James C. Bardell?]
Subject (Geographic):
Berkeley (Calif.), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.), Oakland (Calif.), San Francisco (Calif.), San Francisco Bay (Calif.), and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif
Subject (Name):
Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)
A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an identification number between 875 and 1474. Names and identification numbers also appear in the margin of the album's pages
Description:
Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December., Captions in English., Captions in the negative., Title devised by cataloger., Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger., and Embossed on front cover: "T. G. Cockrill / Chief of Police / Chinese no. 3".
Subject (Geographic):
California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
