Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1
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This is an extensive repository containing material relating to the American experience, a large portion of it digitised from the Library of Congress' collections. It includes, but is not limited to, images, monographs, sheet music, sound and visual recordings, pamphlets and posters. It is subdivided into over 100 thematic collections based on original documentation format, subject, author or donor. The site also benefits from an extensive range of background documentation and information on the creation, maintenance and development of this repository. Individual sections of the collection are periodically highlighted, and materials advising on the use of this repository's contents in a classroom situation are also provided. Each major subsection has a discrete site design and interface, although they are all part of the overarching whole.
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Pioneer notes from the diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875. - Hayes, Benjamin, 1815-1877.; Wolcott, Marjorie Tisdale.
Benjamin Ignatius Hayes (1815-1877) was a Maryland lawyer living in Missouri in 1849 when he decided to make the overland journey to California.
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À la California. Sketch of life in the Golden state. - Evans, Albert S., 1831-1872.
Evans (1831-1872) was a New Hampshire-born California journalist, serving as correspondent for the New York Tribune and Chicago Tribune.
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Personal recollections. - Wood, Harvey, 1828-1895.
Harvey Wood (1828-1895), a young clerk in a New Jersey store, joined the Kit Carson Association of would-be California miners that set out from New York in February 1849, sailing to Texas and crossing Mexico overland to find passage north to San Diego.
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California and the West, 1881, and later ... - Briggs, L. Vernon 1863-1941.
Lloyd Briggs (1863-1941) of Boston interrupted his studies at Harvard Medical School to travel to Hawaii for his health.
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Addresses, reminiscences, etc. of General John Bidwell. - Bidwell, John, 1819-1900.; Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923.
John Bidwell (1819-1900) was born in Chautaugua County, New York, and lived in Ohio when he decided to seek his fortune in California in 1841 and journeyed west as part of the first emigrant train going overland from Missouri to California.
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Notebooks of James Gillespie Hamilton, a merchant of old Westport, Missouri (1844-1858) - Hamilton, James Gillespie, 1816-1869.
Notebooks of James Gillespie Hamilton (1953) prints his brief journal notations for January-May 1858, tersely recording travels to Santa Barbara, Laguna, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and his voyage east via Panama to New York City, May-June 1858.
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Letters from California. - Harper, Harriet.
Harriet Harper of Maine paid a six-month visit to California with another young woman in 1888.
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Life by land and sea. - Mulford, Prentice, 1834-1891.
He left for a long tour of Europe in 1872 and then settled in New York City where he became known as a comic lecturer and author of poems and essays and a columnist for the New York Daily Graphic (a serial), 1875-1881.
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Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. - Burnett, Peter H. 1807-1895
Peter Hardeman Burnett (1807-1895) spent his early years in Tennessee and Missouri, serving as a district attorney in the latter state.
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California sketches. - Fitzgerald, O. P. 1829-1911.
A Southern Methodist minister, Oscar Penn Fitzgerald (1829-1911) of North Carolina was sent to California as a missionary by his denomination in 1855.