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William Hayes Hilton sketches

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Description
Nine sketchbooks containing sketches done by William Hayes Hilton during his travel around California, Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico from 1850-1870. The most common subjects of his drawings are gold miners in California; San Francisco and Monterey, California; and Tepic and Mazatlan, Mexico. His sketches include people, churches, and landscapes, and in several of them he drew the indigenous people of California and Mexico as well as Chinese people in California. Several of the sketchbooks have loose sketches and are in fragile condition.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1850-1870.
Call number
mssHilton
Creator
Hilton, William Hayes (1829-1909)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Rose Elliot, July 1949.
Purchased from Denver Public Library, February 1950.
Gift of Charles A. Clarke, April 1965.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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