Yerba Buena Island ownership dispute 1870-8
Heading: (California - Yerba Buena Island)
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Title: Two printed items relating to the claim by Benjamin S. Brooks & others to Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay
Place Published: Washington, D.C. & San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1870 & 1878
Description: 2 items. Comprises:
Pamphlet headed on p.1: "The following narrative, relating to the Island of Yerba Buena and the equitable claim upon the same... is herewith submitted on behalf of Benjamin S. Brooks, John Center, and Egbert Judson. David S. Turner, Attorney in fact." Washington, March 10, 1870. 8 pp. Unbound. (2 horizontal folds, some internal staining, other wear.)
Brooks, Benjamin Sherman. [Open letter re claim to Yerba Buena Island.] 1 page, broadside. San Francisco, Sept. 26, 1878.
Fascinating and quite rare items relating to the long-running disputes over the ownership of Yerba Buena Island (a.k.a. Goat Island) in San Francisco Bay, now the anchor of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland. There are no copies of the first item listed in OCLC (it is not to be confused with a similar pamphlet, numbering 6 pages, dated March 25, 1870, also by Turner). There is one copy of the 1878 printed letter located, at the University of California Berkeley.
Condition Report: The 1st is good to very good; the 2nd fine.
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Heading: (California - Yerba Buena Island)
Author:
Title: Two printed items relating to the claim by Benjamin S. Brooks & others to Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay
Place Published: Washington, D.C. & San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1870 & 1878
Description: 2 items. Comprises:
Pamphlet headed on p.1: "The following narrative, relating to the Island of Yerba Buena and the equitable claim upon the same... is herewith submitted on behalf of Benjamin S. Brooks, John Center, and Egbert Judson. David S. Turner, Attorney in fact." Washington, March 10, 1870. 8 pp. Unbound. (2 horizontal folds, some internal staining, other wear.)
Brooks, Benjamin Sherman. [Open letter re claim to Yerba Buena Island.] 1 page, broadside. San Francisco, Sept. 26, 1878.
Fascinating and quite rare items relating to the long-running disputes over the ownership of Yerba Buena Island (a.k.a. Goat Island) in San Francisco Bay, now the anchor of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland. There are no copies of the first item listed in OCLC (it is not to be confused with a similar pamphlet, numbering 6 pages, dated March 25, 1870, also by Turner). There is one copy of the 1878 printed letter located, at the University of California Berkeley.
Condition Report: The 1st is good to very good; the 2nd fine.
