http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f1-subject%3DCalifornia%20--%20Description%20and%20travel.;smode%3Dsimple;subject%3DCalifornia%20--%20Description%20and%20travel;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f1-subject=California -- Description and travel.;smode=simple;subject=California -- Description and travel;subject-join=exact Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0133.xml The collection consists of an autograph album of Maria Bickham, personal correspondence, a "Book of Literary Memoranda" by Elizabeth A. Strickle at Hygiea [sic] Female Athenaeum (1846-1860), an account of the sojourn of William D. Bickham in California (1851); two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on the American Civil War, including articles by Bickham for the Cincinnati Daily Commercial; and a journal of the birth and childhood of William Strickle Bickham, kept by his parents (1856-1865). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0133.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1671.xml The Journal Kept on a Tour of California and Other Western States, ca. 1893, consists of an anonymous journal kept during travel in Missouri, California, Oregon, Utah, and Washington at the end of the nineteenth century. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1671.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4017.xml Samuel Mathews (1816-1891) was the son of Dr. John Henry Mathews (1785-1862) and Martha Huntington Mathews, daughter of the third Governor of Ohio. Samuel was one of the first white children born in Painesville, Ohio. In 1844 he married Hulda O. Ford (d. 1857), daughter of Darius Ford, one of the first settlers of East Cleveland. In 1849 Mathews traveled to California with his partners in the Painesville Mining Company. He returned home in 1852. The collection consists of a constitution and treasurer's account book of the Painesville Mining Association, newspaper articles relating Mathews' California experiences, a diary of the overland journey to California, an annotated transcript of the diary, family correspondence, obituaries, and miscellaneous printed items. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4017.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0055.xml Consul Willshire Butterfield (1732-1782) was an editor and historian. The collection includes diaries, research materials, and original ms. copies or printed editions (with handwritten revisions) of books and articles by Butterfield. Includes 6 diaries kept on a trip to California (1849), diary kept on a trip to San Francisco (1851), and Butterfield's writings on William Crawford, the Washington-Crawford letters, La Salle and La Durantaye, Simon Girty, and Jean Nicolet. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0055.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4417.xml Lewis Schaaf was a Brooklyn, Ohio, native who traveled to California and Nevada in 1868, working as a teamster and logcutter in the Sierra Nevada mountains before becoming disenchanted with life on the frontier and returning to Ohio three years later. The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a diary chronicling Schaaf's experiences on the far Western frontier. The diary details Schaaf's journey west by ship via Panama and his life in a lumber camp in the Sierra Nevadas, describing the social life on the frontier, including his involvement in the local Odd Fellows lodge, the celebration at the completion of the transcontinental railroad, as well as train robberies and community destruction from fires. Included are everyday details of pioneering life such as recipes for tobacco substitutes and ways to clear mosquitoes from a room. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4417.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT