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Title: First Discovery of Gold
Creator: Crosby, Elisha Oscar, 1818-1895
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Handwritten draft of a letter dated October 27, to the president of the Society of California Pioneers, describing the first gold found at Sutter's Mill. Includes fifteen six by nine inch pages.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital file is a surrogate of an item from the Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers (Box 1, Folder 22).
[Title, Date]. Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers. MSS 654. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb9803501b
Language: English

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