An appealing manuscript map of the Manzanita mine in the Sweetland mining district, Nevada County, California. The settlement of Sweetland was established by the Sweetland brothers in 1850. They are also known to have operated a trading post there in 1852. Henry Pettit Sweetland was a California State Assemblyman...
![[Manuscript maps of a remarkable Alaskan Gold Rush miner]. James E. Girdwood.](/pictures/thumb/4252_1.jpg?v=1506563085)
Three remarkable manuscript maps, evidently by well-known miner James Girdwood, providing detailed representations of his placer mines located on Crow Creek, in Glacier City, Alaska, as well as the topography thereabouts, accompanied by a portrait photograph of Girdwood by noted western photographer Edward Curtis. Following in the footsteps of...
A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published. This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green Harbor...
Manuscript map and small lot of letters and documents of a respected Michigan pioneer early at the center of the state’s 19th Century lumbering boom. The letters, all pertaining to lumbering concerns over the winter of 1863–4, address such matters as the settling of deals and accounts, low water levels...