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Daniel Freeman Family Papers. CSLA-21. Series 4, 5, 8


THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION

DANIEL FREEMAN FAMILY PAPERS
(CSLA-21)

Series 4. Correspondence

BOX

FOLDER

CONTENT

DATES


1

1

Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence from Porter Brothers Company re sales and shipments of fruit

1892-1893

1

2

Daniel Freeman telegrams, incoming business correspondence mostly re grain sales

1884-1888

1

3

Daniel Freeman telegrams, incoming business correspondence re grain sales and equipment purchases

1881-1889 (dates broken)

1

4

Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence re property sales, farming and ranching business

1890-1893

1

5

Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence re farming business, construction supplies and equipment orders (including for Bradbury Building)

1890-1893

1

6

Daniel Freeman and Charles Howland miscellaneous incoming business correspondence

1881-1906 (dates broken)

1

7

Daniel Freeman telegrams and incoming correspondence from G. P. Bourland re purchase of horses; agreement re same

1898

1

8

Daniel Freeman incoming letter from law firm re will of Catherine Freeman

1876

1

9

Charles Howland incoming correspondence from Automobile Club of Southern California re races, city traffic ordinances, building of Del Rey Road, and member and board elections. Copy of Automobile Club by-laws and city ordinance

1903-1904

1

10

Grace Howland, Charles Howland, and Daniel Freeman personal/business correspondence

1884, 1910, 1938, 1955

1

11

Daniel Freeman, Archibald Freeman, and Charles Howland incoming business correspondence

1883-1920 (dates broken)

1

12

Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence from Security Savings Bank

1891

1

13

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence from Carl Browne re cyclorama; newspaper clippings re Gettysburg cyclorama

1889

1

14

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence, including Southern California Railway Company

1884-1902 (dates broken)

1

15

Daniel Freeman incoming letter from "Forbes" re debt and D. Freeman's closure of sheep raising operations. Cf. this series Box 2, Folder 11; and Series 3, Box 4, Folder 9

1876(?)

1

16

Gag letter

1904

2

1-2

Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence re farm commodities sales

1892-1894

2

3-4

Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence re the steamer Southern California and coal shipments on same. Originally filed together under title "Steamship of Southern Cal. Correspondence." Cf. Series 6, Box 1ov, Folder 4

1888-1889

2

5

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence from Walter S. Maxwell re purchase of S. S. Southern California; contractual agreements between Maxwell and Freeman re same

1887-1888, 1890

2

6

Charles Howland incoming correspondence re catalog orders, with accompanying catalogs

1902-1912 (dates broken)

2

7

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence from C. S. Merriman Company re diving suit(!). With advertising flyers

1875

2

8

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence from sister Henrietta Gilbert and other relatives

1907

2

9

Daniel Freeman incoming business and personal correspondence

1880-1889 (dates broken)

2

10

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence re out of state advertising for sale of rancho land

1884

2

11

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence from Arthur J. Hutchinson re land ventures (including Centinela Land Company?), health of Daniel Freeman, creditors, and attack on Adolph Portugal store

1876-1877

2

12

Daniel Freeman/Walter S. Maxwell incoming letter from H. Z. Osborne, president of Evening Express Company, re unsafe condition of Panorama Building. Cf. Series 2, Box 5, Folder 15, and Box 1ov, Folder 12

1889

2

13

Loose envelopes

1888, 1894

2

14

Invitation to "Round-Up of Teddy's Terrors"

1902

2

15

Charles and Grace Howland Christmas cards

n.d.

3

 

Letter press book- D. Freeman, 1863-1880; Letter press book- D. Freeman, 1880-1885. RESTRICTED: FRAGILE

1863-1885

4

 

Letter press book- D. Freeman, 1888-1894; Letter press book- D. Freeman, 1894-1903

1888-1903

1ov

9

Letter to Daniel Freeman re position at College of Applied Sciences

1888

 

Series 5. Ranchos Centinela and Sausal Redondo Acquisition Records back to top

BOX

FOLDER

CONTENT

DATES


1

1

Certified copies of deeds re purchases of Avila ranch in the 1850s, by Francis Carpenter and Hilliard P. Dorsey

1890

1

2

Agreement between Sir Robert Burnett and Catherine Freeman re provision to buy Rancho Sausal Redondo and Rancho Centinela (photocopy; original fragile); copy of agreement between Sir Robert Burnett and Catherine Freeman to lease Rancho Sausal Redondo and Rancho Centinela; notarized statement re Robert Burnett delivery of agreement with Catherine Freeman

1873

1

3

Agreement between Daniel Freeman and Sir Robert Burnett re lease of ranchos Centinela and Sausal Redondo, after death of Catherine Freeman

1878

1

4

Daniel Freeman handwritten note to Sir Robert Burnett re payment; Daniel Freeman promissory note to Sir Robert Burnett; register of receipts for Daniel Freeman payments to Sir Robert Burnett for rent of ranchos; cancelled Temple and Workman Bankers checks, Daniel Freeman to Robert Burnett, including final payments for purchase of ranchos

1873-1877, 1883, 1885

1

5

Daniel Freeman proposition re sale of Centinela and Sausal Redondo ranchos; statement of expenses re Ranchos Centinela and Sausal Redondo improvements

1874

1

6

Sales documents re Daniel Freeman final purchase of Centinela and Sausal Redondo ranchos

1881-1885

1

7

Daniel Freeman incoming correspondence from Sir Robert Burnett and from legal firm of Falkner and Bell re lease and purchase of ranchos Sausal Redondo and Centinela; agreement between Sir Robert Burnett and Daniel Freeman re purchase of ranchos Sausal Redondo and Centinela and Stuart Tract

1875-1885
(dates broken)

1

8

Abstract of title to the Ranchos Sausal Redondo and La Centinela

1885

1ov

1

Deeds and conveyance of real estate document re Lawrence Kilgour and Robert Burnett property transactions (photocopies and originals)

1878-1879

1ov

2

Special power of attorney documents (2 copies), Sir Robert Burnett to James Walker and Thomas Menzies

1874

1ov

3

Stipulations governing Freeman use of Centinela water and land reserved for Sir Robert Burnett; Daniel Freeman memorandum to Sir Robert Burnett re list of taxes paid

1873

1ov

4

Sir Robert Burnett deeds of Rancho Sausal Redondo to Daniel Freeman

1882, 1885

1ov

5

Joseph Lancaster Brent deed of "Rancho la Centinela" to Sir Robert Burnett; "letters patent" re school lands from State of California to Sir Robert Burnett

1860, 1875


Series 8. California National Guard back to top

BOX

FOLDER

CONTENT

DATES


1

1-3

Correspondence, records, receipts re California National Guard activities of Major Charles Howland

1908, 1914-1916

1

4

California National Guard field and special orders; field exercise scenarios

1905-1915 (dates broken)

1

5

California National Guard special orders (copies) and War Department bulletins

1913-1915

1

6

Transfer of ordnance and quartermaster's supplies receipts and invoices; supplies lists; Company F, 7th Regiment, National Guard of California muster roster; general and special orders; correspondence. Materials originally in envelope labeled "Muster out. Co "F" 7th Regt Infty N.G.C. July 1906"

1906

1

7-8

California National Guard general and special orders

1909-1916

1

9

Camp of instruction memoranda, Atascadero, California; correspondence re California National Guard activities of Charles Howland

1908-1916 (dates broken)

1

10

State rifle competition

1915

2

1

Election materials, Troop D, First Squadron, Cavalry, California National Guard

1907, 1913

2

2

Receipts, troop rosters, list of expenses for California National Guard

1914

2

3

Orders, report of survey, telegrams re Major Charles Howland inspection and survey of Battery A, Field Artillery, California National Guard

1916

2

4

Correspondence, transfer of ordnance and transfer of quartermaster invoices re mustering out of Company A, Signal Corps, California National Guard. Major Charles Howland officer in charge. Cf. Box 1ov, Folder 8, this series

1912

2

5

Receipts, correspondence, construction estimates re construction of Scholl Canyon rifle range

1914-1915

2

6

Election materials, Battery A, Field Artillery, California National Guard

1911

2

7

Correspondence re California National Guard activities of Charles Howland; receipts, invoices re California National Guard

1910-1915 (dates broken)

2

8

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, receipts re California National Guard activities of Charles Howland

1905-1916 (dates broken)

2

9

California National Guard special orders re Charles Howland

1905-1916 (dates broken)

2

10

Incoming and outgoing correspondence re National Rifle Association rifle shoot and Major Charles Howland

1910

2

11

Election materials for major, Seventh Regiment of Infantry, California National Guard

1914

2

12

Payroll and reimbursement forms, War Department; Adjutant General receipts (blank)

n.d.

2

13

Uniform catalog, shoe catalog; receipt book

1911-1912

2

14

Lease, Charles Howland incoming and outgoing correspondence re construction of state and military rifle range

1909-1915 (dates broken)

2

15

Department of Military Art, Army School of the Line, Course in Tactics: map problems for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Accompanying map too fragile for use

1909-1910

3

 

Publications re National Guard including General & Special Orders, Laws & Regulations, Rules & Regulations and Manual of Interior Guard Duty

1890-1914

4

 

Signal Corps Manual; U. S. Army firing regulations manual; U. S. Army Field Service regulations; musketry training booklet; General & Special Orders, other military publications

1903-1916 (dates broken)

1ov

1

Photograph: Troop D at Long Beach, California

1900

1ov

8

Ballots, election return forms, special order re election of First Lieutenant, Company F, 7th Regiment, National Guard of California. Materials originally in envelope labeled "Election for 1st Lieutenant Troop "D" Cavalry N.G.C. Nov. 21--1913." Register of National Guard officers"

1912, 1913

flat file

 

Map of Maneuver Grounds, Camp Atascadero, California

1908

flat file

 

Invoices (carbon copies): transfer of ordnance property, quartermaster property, and Signal Corps property. Cf. Box 2, Folder 4

1912, 1914

flat file

 

Plan of target pits for Los Angeles Rifle Range (3 items)

1914


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