Found 3 collections related to Gold mines and mining -- California

Henry Hunter Peters, merchant and farmer, had a mercantile business in California and then farmed in Southboro, Mass. Collection consists of diaries, correspondence, accounts, lectures, photographs, and printed matter. Diaries, 1850-1856, describe Peters's journeys by steamer from New York to California and Oregon; his life as a merchant in California during the early period of the gold rush; and life on his dairy farm in Southboro, Mass. Includes personal and business letters; mercantile accounts of Peters and Hazeltine and Scranton and Peters in San Francisco and Sacramento; lectures on farming and on his 1871 trip to Europe; and diary, 1851-1852, of H.C. Leonard in Astoria, Oregon, containing a vocabulary of a North American Indian language (Chinook?) and a daguerreotype portrait of Peters, ca. 1848. less

Eliab Parker Mackintire (1797-1864) was a Massachusetts state legislator. Collection consists of Mackintire's letters, mostly from Boston and Charlestown, Mass., to his son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. William Salter, of Burlington, Iowa. Topics include church affairs, business and economic conditions, the Mexican War, education, politics, travel on the Great Lakes, railroad building in the West, discovery of gold in California, and Mackintire's career as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. less

The Francis Effingham Pinto recollections cover the period from 1823 to 1856, with discussion of Pinto's early life in New Haven, Connecticut and New York City; service as Lieutenant, 1st N.Y. Volunteers during the 1846 campaign in Mexico; travel to California in 1849, with events en route via Panama, and description of San Francisco, gold mines, trade, partnerships, marriage, fires, and The Vigilance Committee; and his return to New York via Nicaragua in 1856. The recollections were written between 1894 and 1902. Typed carbon copy, 212 pages with index less