Manuscript list, unsigned and dated 1849 September, of members of the Tallman Mining and Trading Association aboard the ship South America, which left Newport, Rhode Island, on 1849 September 8, and arrived at San Francisco, California, on 1850 Februa...
Description:
Source unknown.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Economic conditions--20th century and California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
South America (Ship)--Passenger lists
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners--California, Gold mines and mining--California, Ships--Passenger lists, and Voyages to the Pacific coast
The scrapbook records the voyage of the ship South America from Providence, Rhode Island, via the Panama to San Francisco. Along with written notations of the ship's location, there are newspaper clippings listing the passengers, members of the Tallma...
Description:
Donated by Bradford F. Swan, 1977.
Subject (Name):
Rhodes (Bark), Rio (Bark), South America (Ship), Tallman Mining and Trading Association, and Walter (Bark)
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining--California and Voyages to the Pacific coast
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 n...
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
Box 1 | Folder Moving to California in 1849 by E. L. Christman
Image Count:
15
Abstract:
Enos Christman's journals describe his 1849 sea voyage around the Horn from Philadelphia to San Francisco, his work in the gold fields and for the Sonora Herald. Pasted into the back of one journal are newspaper clippings of Christman's letters to Pen...
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel and California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
Apple, Ellen A, Atkins, DeWitt Clinton, Evans, Henry S, and Prizer, Enos
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, Journalism--California, Sonora Herald (1850), and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Life in the mine fields in and around Butte County, California, reflected in the correspondence of a prospector to his wife and a friend. Included is a letter to Paden's wife from his brother telling of Paden's death in the mine fields.
Telling how the Mormons were influential in the discovery, and of Samuel Brannan's alleged illegal acquisition of the supplies and store of Isaac Rogers, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Rogers, Isaac,--Jr.,--1793-1849, Rogers, James S, and Rogers, Lester Tinker,--1821-
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining--California and Mormons--California
