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DIARY OF A YOUNG MAN IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RECORDING HIS WORK IN THE PRODUCE TRADE AND HIS SOCIAL LIFE

1897WRCAM55055San Francisco and Sonoma County Ca. 1897. 276pp. comprised of 52 printed pages with the remainder being diary space completed in manuscript irregularly filled out. Narrow 12mo. Limp brown wallet-style leather diary with flap and elastic closure loop a.e.g. Some wear and loss to leather at flap folds text block starting to crack minor tanning to paper. Overall very good. A very readable daybook from an unidentified young man living in Northern California in the late 1800s. Our unidentified diarist is laconic - he provides an entry for 216 days in 1897 with daily entries from January 1 to June 11 then more sporadically after that - and many entries are a variation on "Worked. Fine weather." But some days he is more forthcoming and describes trips to the Sutro baths; attending balls at Pioneer Hall and Foresters Hall; contracting a case of the mumps; starting and then quitting night school; and the night Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He mentions friends his work in a store in the city unloading fruit in particular bananas watermelon and Japanese oranges traveling to Berkeley and Oakland and the plowing and planting he does at home possibly in Sonoma County. Of particular interest is his entry for July 26 in which he writes "Great excitement about the Klondike every body crazy to go." And not long after he mentions that two of his friends have bought tickets and are headed to Alaska. One entry notes a trip made by three friends to Yosemite. In the front pocket of the diary is a check dated August 3 1896 to the Sacramento textile shop Wasserman Davis & Co. signed by J.W. Kasebery although no connection has been made between Kasebery and the diarist. Excelsior Diaries came into fashion in the late 19th century providing an almanac of sorts customized to various regions and then a half page space for brief daily reflections. In this case the stock pages include a calendar for 1897; routes of travel distances rates etc. from San Francisco; tide tables for San Francisco San Pedro Astoria and Port Townsend; postage rates; weights and measures; and varied trivia. A interesting perspective on 1897 in the Bay Area. hardcover books

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HOLOGRAPHIC DIARY OF A YOUNG CALIFORNIA WOMAN WRITTEN IN 1914

70653A holographic diary and journal written in 1914 by a young California woman from Rio Bravo California a former settlement in Kern County along the Santa Fe railroad near Bakersfield. The 50-page journal begins on January 30 1914 with its author 15-year-old Rosy Luella Thomas writing about her daily activities. The entries run through February 14 and center on going to school playing with friends and doing odd chores around the property where she lives with her sister and aunt. February 2 1914: "Monday I got up at seven o' clock. We were hurrying around so as not to be late for school. Then we went out and brushed and harnessed the horse. Â After breakfast we got ready and went to school. But we were around 10 minutes late. We got home late from school and we had to get in wood and get supper and we went to bed about half past eight." Following the diary entries is a 30-page original story Thomas titled "Rosilie and Her Dog" about a young girl who becomes lost on her way home from school and misses her parents and her dog whose name is Sleipnir presumably named after the eight-legged horse of Odin in Norse mythology. In the story the young woman was eight years old when she stumbled into a mountain cottage fell asleep and was later awoken by the owner of the house George who was so taken with her beauty he never wanted her to leave. She lived with him in chaste domestic bliss for several years until she grew into a young woman. In time Rosilie was reunited with her dog and her parents who instantly took a liking to George so they all moved to her parents' house and later to the city. "They had many happy hours talking together of how they met and the little old cabin" she wrote at the conclusion of her story. "Sleipnir was still living and was lying on the hearth rug in a beautiful house. In their old age when they would talk of the little brown cottage way up in the hills George would sing to Rosalie 'Your hair was then a golden but now a silver hew and we have lived together all these years we two.'" According to ancestry records it appears Rosy's father William died in 1909 and her mother Dovie who subsequently remarried and had two more children died in 1912. By the time of the writing of this journal and story Rosy was an orphan. Just a year later at the age of 16 she married John Duns a man 10 years her senior who worked in the oil fields around Bakersfield. They had two children and Rosy died in 1938. Written on ruled line paper and hand stitched into tan paper wraps with the words "A Young Girl's Diary" handwritten in the cover. The covers are worn a bit stained and edgeworn and the contents are overall in very good condition. unknown books

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SAN FRANCISCO CHEMICAL WORKS DOCUMENT

73807Original mortgage document made between Robert P. Chase and inventor Egbert Putnam Judson on August 1 1856 for the purchase of "that certain parcel of land situated in the city of San Francisco near the Mission Dolores . commencing at a point on the south west side of Valencia street sixty five feet from the corner of Sparks and Valencia streets running thence northerly on Valencia street sixty-five feet thence westerly and parallel with Sparks street five hundred sixty feet to Guerrero street - thence southerly on the line of Guerrero street sixty five feet thence easterly parallel with Sparks street one hundred and sixty five feet to the place of beginning being the same premises known as the San Francisco Chemical Works." The initial agreement was for the sum of $2500; however a holographic addenda on the verso dated September 20 1858 and signed by both Judson and Chase records an outstanding balance of $3275. Printed on one quarter of a 16 Â½ x 13 Â½" sheet which folds to roughly 3 Â½" x 8 Â¼". In addition to holographic addenda a blue paper onlay signed by notary Charles Halsey appears on the verso along with a holographic notation by George F. Kohler Deputy County Controller. The document is creased from prior folds with some minor soiling to two outer panels. A native of Syracuse New York Egbert Putnam Judson 1812-93 traveled to San Francisco in 1850 to try his luck in the mines. He is said to have founded the first assay works in San Francisco in 1852 and was a principal organizer of the San Francisco Chemical Works later Judson & Sheppard. His interest in the manufacture of acids led to experiments with explosives and in August 1867 three pounds of dynamite were made at his plant and used in a trial blast of boulders. This was the first instance of the manufacture and use of dynamite in the United States after the invention of that explosive by Alfred Nobel in 1866. The trial was so successful that it led to the formation of the Giant Powder Company the same month. Judson a director of the Giant company continued to operate the San Francisco Chemical Works which supplied acid to the Giant company and soon thereafter formed the Judson Powder Company in Kenvil New Jersey. On June 3 1873 he patented his "Giant Powder No. 2" patent no. 139468 which was manufactured successfully by both companies. Essentially the first high explosive blasting powder to supplant gunpowder "Giant powder" was for a long time a synonym for dynamite in the United States. Judson was the first to meet the need for an explosive which though powerful would be more "gentle" in action than a blasting powder producing a heaving rather than a shattering effect. Later in 1882 he founded the Judson Manufacturing Co. building bridges and structural steel with machine shops foundry and pattern shops and bolt and nut shops. The company had operations in Emeryville and Oakland California respectively. unknown books

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