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Title: Captain Stephen Splivalo: typescript
Creator: Splivalo, Joseph, author
Contributor: Splivalo, Joseph, author
Date Created and/or Issued: [undated]
Publication Information: TheBancroftLibrary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Biographical sketch prepared by the captain's grand-nephew. Account of the captain's early life in Dalmatia, his experiences sailing in the Orient, and settling in Callao; voyage to San Francisco on the California in 1849 after the news of discovery of gold; his contract to bring Chinese to California; operation of a general store in the gold country; land transactions and grape growing in San Jose.
Type: text
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb8h4nb2qc
BANC MSS 73/122 c: 131
Subject: California (Steamship)
Gold mines and mining--California
Splivalo, Stephen
Voyages and travels
Place: San Jose (Calif.)

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