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1 No online items Processed by The Bancroft Library staff The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, Phone: (510) Fax: (510) URL: , 2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. BANC MSS C-R 18 1

2 Papers, circa (bulk Collection number: BANC MSS C-R 18 The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Contact Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, Phone: (510) Fax: (510) URL: Processed by: The Bancroft Library staff Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou Revised and re-encoded by: Lara Michels 1997, 2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: J.N. Bowman Papers, Date (inclusive): circa Date (inclusive): (bulk Collection Number: BANC MSS C-R 18 Creator: Bowman, J. N. (Jacob Neibert), Extent: Number of containers: 7 cartons, 5 oversize folders, 1 volume, 1 porfolio (9.5 linear feet) Repository: The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Abstract: Correspondence, California history subject files, and personalia of Jacob N. Bowman, historian and creator of an important index to the California land grant and land case records. Languages Represented: English Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights BANC MSS C-R 18 2

3 All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See: Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley See: Preferred Citation [Identification of item], J.N. Bowman papers, BANC MSS C-R 18, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Photographs of J.J. Vioget's grave transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library Related collection: Index of the Spanish-Mexican private land grant records and cases of California (BANC MSS C-R 17). Related collection: Indices to California land cases (BANC MSS C-R 16). Related collection: Indices to California land grants (BANC MSS C-R 15). Related collection: Index to witnesses in United States District Court (Northern District) third party private land grant cases (BANC MSS 67/130 c). Associated collection: Spanish land grant files (or Bowman files) (California State Archives 79-30). Alternate Forms Available There are no alternate forms of this collection. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Bowman, J. N. (Jacob Neibert), Archives. Missions--California--History Land grants--california--history Land tenure--california--history Building, Adobe--California--History Weights and measures--california--history Agriculture--California--History Archives--California California--History California--Biography California--History--Sources San Francisco (Calif.)--History Accruals No additions are expected. Processing Information Additional processing Bancroft Library staff in January Biographical Information Jacob N. Bowman ( ) was born near Greenville, Ohio. He graduated from Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio in 1896 and then traveled abroad to study history at Heidelberg University and Leipzig University in Germany from 1896 to Bowman taught history at Western Washington College, the University of California, Berkeley, and Washington University. From 1948 until 1955, he served as Historian at the California State Archives in Sacramento. In the late 1920s, Bowman became interested in California's private land grant cases. Difficulty researching in the land grant records prompted BANC MSS C-R 18 3

4 Bowman to undertake the task of updating and revising the index in Judge Ogden Hoffman's 1862 reports on the California land cases, up until then the main tool for researching these records. The completion of Bowman's more comprehensive index required that he conduct a complete study of the widely scattered land grant papers. At the time, the land case files from the Board of Land Commissioner's hearings were in the possession of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The original Spanish and Mexican government land records were in the office of the Surveyor General in San Francisco and then in Glendale in In 1937, these original Spanish records were ordered to be sent to the National Archives for repair of the fire damage they had suffered in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. They never returned to California (though a set of certified copies and translations exists at the State Archives in Sacramento). Bowman always maintained that the accessioning of these records into the National Archives in Washington was made despite that fact that the District Court judges in San Francisco had requisitioned them to be placed with the land cases in the court's custody. The land case files from the Board of Land Commissioner's hearings are now on permanent deposit at the Bancroft Library. In addition to his index, Bowman wrote extensively on many areas of California history. Scope and Content of Collection The collection consists of correspondence dating from circa 1933 until 1965, California history subject files, and personalia and other papers. The correspondence includes general correspondence as well as a small amount of correspondence (and other material) relating to the California State Archives and some responses to reference queries Bowman received in his position as Historian at the State Archives. The subject files, by far the bulk of the collection, consist of files on a wide range of California history subjects. These subject files might include manuscripts of articles and essays written by Bowman, notes, and correspondence. Of particular note among these subject files are manuscripts, correspondence, and notes documenting Bowman's investigations into the land records of California. Among the personalia are reminiscences and other writings and course diaries, diplomas and other materials relating to Bowman's student days in Germany. Series 1: Correspondence. circa Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 1-16 Carton 1, Folder Carton 1, Folder 15 Carton 1, Folder 16 General Correspondence, circa California State Archives correspondence and other items, circa Assorted responses to reference queries, circa Series 2: California History Subject Files. circa Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 17-26; carton 2-6; carton 7, folder 1-31 Carton 1, Folder 17-26, Carton 2, Folder 1-21, Oversize Folder 5 California private land grants (manuscripts, notes, and correspondence) circa Scope and Content Note Includes manuscripts of Bowman's The California Private Land Granting and Land Grants and Bowman's Index to Witnesses in the California Private Land Grant Cases as well as notes on land grants and cases. There are also other files on land grants and land grant records scattered throughout this series of subject files. See for example, carton 4, folders 22-23, 36; carton 5, folders, 24; and carton 6, folders 1, 3, and 16 for manuscripts, notes and correspondence that illuminate Bowman's investigations into the land records of California Burial of Antonio del Valle in 1841 (correspondence) Expediente 311(correspondence) Parochial Books of the California missions (manuscripts, correspondence, notes) Cattle brand used at Mission La Purisima Conception (correspondence) BANC MSS C-R 18 4

5 Series 2: California History Subject Files. circa , Carton 3, Folder a , Oversize Folder Relationship of private land grant cases in the U. S. District Court, S. F. to American sovereignty to the Pacific Coast and off-shore islands (manuscripts and correspondence) Dates of various editions of Mariano Galvan Rivera's Ordenanzas de Tierras y Aguas, Vara staffs at Bancroft Library (correspondence) Provincial fanega (correspondence) Peralta family and their homesites (correspondence, manuscripts, and notes) Santa Clara Mission (correspondence) Juana Briones de Miranda (correspondence and other materials) Length of the old Mexican vara Sonoma fanega measure (notes) Birthdays of California's urban communities List California governors General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and family (manuscripts, notes, correspondence). The birthday of San Francisco (correspondence) The Comenzada dates of the California missions. The names of the California missions. The date when Francisca bacame Benicia (manuscript and correspondence) Peter Lassen (manuscript) Periodization of the history of California agriculture (manuscript and notes) The area of Rancho Ulpines Sobrante (manuscript) The area of Rancho Suscol (manuscript) The Schools of Provincial California (manuscript) Vancouver's Anchorage in San Francisco Bay (manuscript and notes)1792. The Great Seal Press of California of and the Hand Seal Press in the Office of the Secretary of State (manuscripts) Burnt Brick from the Reservoir of the Polin Spring in the San Francisco Presidio and the Second Site of Mission Santa Clara (manuscripts Captain Jean Jacques Vioget (manuscripts, notes, correspondence) Capitol building (gold ball, seal above, contents of cornerstone, level of surrounding streets) (manuscripts) On the boundaries of The Delta, Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley (memo) The Last Changes of California County Seats Incorporation Date of Martinez The California County Making the Largest Proportionate Contribution to the Washington Monument, Nov. 6, BANC MSS C-R 18 5

6 Series 2: California History Subject Files. circa The Population of Provincial California (manuscripts, notes, correspondence) July 7, 1846 as the Terminal Date Of the Mexican Regime (manuscript) 45 The El Camino Real Traditional (manuscript) 46 George Davidson and the Introduction of the California Quail into Washington 47 (manuscript) The Date when Yerba Buena Became San Francisco (manuscript) 48 The Resident Neophytes (Existentes) of the California Missions (manuscript) 49 Gubernatorial papers in California State Archives (manuscript) 50 The Writer of the Secretary of State's Day Book, Irrigation in provincial California (correspondence) 52 The Number of California Indians Baptized during the Mission Period (manuscript) La Puente (manuscript) 54 The Bridges of Provincial California Missions (correspondence) 57 De Guadalupe (manuscript, correspondence) 58 1 The State Archives and the California State Government (manuscript) 2 The Vara de Burgos (manuscript and correspondence) 3 "Surveyor of the Seas The Life and Voyages of Captain George Vancouver," by Bern Anderson (book review) 4 Die Lansgemeinde at Altdorf, Canton, Uri, May 6, The Migrations of the California Capitol, 1851 to 1854 (manuscript) 5-6 The Vineyards of Provincial California (manuscript and correspondence) Wheat Rust During the Spanish Era in California Journalism. [Attempt to establish School of Journalism at University of California, 10 Berkeley] Sheldon-Daylor grant and "store" (manuscript) 11 Patriotism on the Pacific Coast (manuscript) 12 Richardson map (or Torres-Breen map) and the Burns-Breen Map of Yerba Buena of (correspondence) Libraries of Calif. Before Agricultural Statistical (manuscript and correspondence) California Weights and Measures (manuscript, correspondence, notes) Urban Birthdays (manuscript, correspondence, notes) Spanish Archives (correspondence and notes) San Francisco Early Maps and Forts (manuscripts, correspondence, notes) BANC MSS C-R 18 6

7 Series 2: California History Subject Files. circa Quesesosi (manuscript and correspondence) O'Farrell Swing (manuscript and notes) Mission Lands (manuscripts, correspondence, notes) Lost Toma de Razon (manuscripts, correspondence, notes) Land Grant Papers in National Archives (manuscripts and correspondence) Gold Placer in California (correspondence) Valentine Grant and Scrip (correspondence) W. J. Bowen (correspondence) Mt. Diablo Base Line (correspondence) W. P. Toler (correspondence) Rosa de Castilla Juan Bautista de Anza Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin (correspondence and other materials) The Gold Spike of 1876 and 1887 (manuscript) James H. Coleman - U. S. District Court, S.D. ( ) (correspondence) Calistoga Centennial (correspondence) Land Grants - Californla (correspondence) Introduction of Prunes (correspondence) Adobe Houses in Bay Counties (manuscripts, correspondence, notes) The Santa Barbara Channel and the Public Domain, including some correspondence re the Disturnell Map of 1847 The Pacific Association of Scientific Societies (manuscript) The First Modern Land Survey in California (manuscript) The Court Cases and Records of the Private Land Grants of Callfornia (manuscript) Diseño of Rancho Rio Ojotoka (manuscript) Microfilms of California Missions - Checklist The Eastern Headland of Drake's Bay (manuscript) California Land Claims: Maps - a description of the volume in the California State Library The Founding Date of the University of California (manuscript and notes) Proposal to establish California Historical Rose Garden (correspondence) The First Site and the Founding Date of Mission Dolores (manuscript and notes) BANC MSS C-R 18 7

8 Series 2: California History Subject Files. circa Portfolio , Oversize Folder Identification of California Governors buried in the missions (correspondence) Laguna do los Dolores (manuscript) Human Nature (manuscripts and notes) The Private Land Grant Cases 1906 to the Present (manuscript and correspondence) Description of leather jackets of Spanish and Mexican soldiers (correspondence) Transfer of land grant records from Glendale, Calif. to National Archives (correspondence) An American Historical Association -Pacific Coast Branch (correspondence) Filming case 846 SD in U.S. District Court Clerk's Office (correspondence) The Indians and the California Private Land Grants (manuscript) Von Schmidt survey of Now Helvetia Inland waters and seaward boundaries of the state of California (correspondence and related papers) Correspondence re location and reproduction of the letter, Dec. 16, 1961, from El Presidente Municipal, Arizpe, to the Governor of California Material relating to the Bojorques and Salazar families, gathered by one of the descendents, Roger Rehm Diary of James Ainsa (transcription) On the Trail of Provincial Traditions re El Polin Spring (manuscript) Letter, Feb. 6, 1968, from W.W. Daris, Jr., Chief of Archives, Calif., re Micheltorena's memo of Oct. 21, 1843 relation to Expediente 340 in Land Case 339 N.D. Enclosure: photocopy of the memo How We Think: a protogomina to Dewey's How We Think Maps of the Missions and Ranchos as claimed by the Catholic Church Index of Spanish Land Grant of Documents S.N. Bowman's Notes on Index to the Land Cases (manuscript) The Date of Sutter's Landing at Sacramento(manuscript, correspondence, notes) Bidwell maps (notes) History of the Provincial Archives of California (manuscript) California agriculture (notes) Missions (notes and correspondence) Provincial California (manuscripts and correspondence) Domestic Animals of Provincial California (manuscripts and correspondence) Roads of Provincial California (manuscripts and notes) Earthquake of 1812 (notes) Ranchos in Alameda County West of the Hills (manuscripts and correspondence) The State Colors (manuscript) BANC MSS C-R 18 8

9 Series 2: California History Subject Files. circa La Rosa de Castilla (manuscript) The Period of Transition from Spanish-Mexican to American-California (manuscript) The Estacada in the Presidio(manuscript) The Birth of the Pacific (as an international sea) (manuscript) The Birthdays of the California Missions (manuscript) California Landmarks (reports) California Landmarks (reports) Traditions of the California Spanish Land Grants (manuscript) The Names of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers (manuscript) The Elusive Rio Jesus Maria (manuscript) Early Castros of Northern Alta California (manuscript) Report on Trips to Mission Santa Barbara and Mission Santa Clara (manuscript) First Wharf in San Francisco (manuscript) The Three Centers of the Beginning of San Francisco (manuscript and notes) Birthdays in Provincial California (manuscript) Rio Ojostka -- American River ( manuscript) Notes on Flax and Linen in Provincial California ( manuscript) The Population of Early Berkeley ( manuscript and notes) Sub-Committee on the Method of Estimating Intercensal Population for California (report), 1932 The Question of the Western Boundary of California in the Constitutional Convention of 1849 (manuscript) The First Map of Sacramento Valley and The Second Map of Sacramento Valley (manuscripts) Mexico's Attempted Purchase of New Helvetica (manuscript) The Old Course of Mission Creek in San Francisco (manuscript) July 7, 1846 as the Terminal Date of the Mexican Regime (manuscript) Date of the Beginning and Completion of the State Capitol (manuscript) Adobe Bricks of Mission Purisima Concepcion (manuscript) Ojo de Agua de Figueroa (manuscript) The Sandridge between California and Pine Streets (manuscript) The Selection of the Townsite of San Francisco (manuscript) Early Maps and Surveys of Yerba Buena (manuscript) Founding of Los Angeles (notes) Rufus Hopkins (notes) BANC MSS C-R 18 9

10 Series 3: Personalia and other papers. circa Series 3: Personalia and other papers. circa Physical Description: Carton 7, folder , Oversize Folder Volume 1 38 University Days (manuscript) Reminiscences of U.C., (manuscript) University of California correspondence and other materials from syllabus project Course diaries, honors, and diplomas for University of Leipzig and University of Heidelberg, Cabinet card photographs of Bowman's teachers in Germany, circa Kosmos Club, Physical Demands and Capacities Analysis (publication of the War Manpower Commission for the benefit of the shipbuilding industry in 1944), Other writings, BANC MSS C-R 18 10