MG-72 The David B. Hackman Collection, 1850-1896

1 box 4 folders .3 cubic ft.

Description: Collection contains the original and typed copies of correspondence describing life in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, an account of crossing the desert on the way west, and a journal describing the sea voyage home. Also, two photographs relevant to the gold rush and Mr. Hackman's obituary.

Organized by subject.

Folder 1 Original letters
Insert 1 Letter to Mother, 1850.
Insert 2 Letter to brother, 1850.
Insert 3 Letter to brother, 1851.
Insert 4 Letter to Harriet Miller, 1850.
Insert 5 Letter to uncle, 1852.
Insert 6 Letter to brother, 1852.
Insert 7 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 8 Letter, 1853.
Insert 9 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 10 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 11 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 12 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 13 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 14 Letter to brother, 1853.
Insert 15 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 16 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 17 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 18 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 19 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 20 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 21 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 22 Letter to brother, 1854.
Insert 23 Letter to Miss Miller, 1854.

Folder 2
Insert 1 Original handwritten account, "A Description of Crossing the Desert, " 1850.
Insert 2 Typed copy of the above account.

Folder 3 Composition book containing personal correspondence describing life in California, the area, and the discovery of gold; "Journal of My Voyage from San Francisco to New York," 1854; photographs of a gold-rush town and the great-granddaughter of John Sutter; and an obituary.

Folder 4 Typed copies (in manuscript form): Mr. Hackman's obituary from 1896; correspondence to his brother; and his "Journal of My Voyage from San Francisco to New York." Transcriber unknown.