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Inventory of California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires, 1886-1889

Collection Summary

Collection Title:
California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires, 1886-1889

Collection Number:
BANC MSS C-D 989

Creator:
H. H. Bancroft and Company

Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes

Repository:
The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract:
Includes over three hundred printed questionnaires, apparently filled out by agents of H.H. Bancroft with information supplied by California settlers involved in agriculture or related industries. Responses to questions on printed side of form are chiefly statistical; verso of form usually contains a brief biography of interviewee.
Box 4 contains more completed questionnaire forms, usually without biographical information; some of these are captioned "Statistics of California Industries."

Languages Represented:
English