Henry Hunter Peters papers

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{"value"=>"MssCol 2391", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"2391", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Henry Hunter Peters papers"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1848-1872", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1848/1872"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".3 linear foot (2 boxes, 9 v.)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1848

date_inclusive_end

1872

origination

{"value"=>"Peters, Henry Hunter", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Henry Hunter Peters, merchant and farmer, had a mercantile business in California and then farmed in Southboro, Mass.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MSS 19M?"}

{"date"=>"1919", "source"=>"Peters, Mrs. Edward McClure", "method"=>"Gift", "value"=>"Gift, Peters, Mrs. Edward McClure, 1919"}

altformavail

{"value"=>"<p>Diaries, 1850-1854, available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}

keydate

1848

prefercite

{"value"=>"Henry Hunter Peters papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

.3 linear feet (2 boxes, 9 v.)

date_start

1848

date_end

1872

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