RARE Original Mourning Letter. Description of San Francisco View. Well-educated woman writes to Grandmother. With Original Envelope / cover – Brooklyn, CA. For offer, a fascinating letter! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original – NOT a Reproduction – Guaranteed! This touching letter is full of interesting reading. Writer, Nettie Green, writes to her grandmother, Mrs. Lucretia Green in Owasso, Michigan. A mourning letter, with black borders, it talks about death – Here it is [California] that I have experienced my greatest sorrow, one that seemed to crash my heart almost & here is the resting place of the loved one. She goes on to artistically describe the landscape near San Francisco Bay. She says many ties bind her to California, and tells grandma… Would you see this country you would not blame me for being so much attached to it. Beyond there lies the bay and in the distance its hills and vales is seen. It is a picture that neither language, pencil, or paint can portray nature’s panorama, and when viewed by moonlight it cannot be excelled. The sun is bright and warm and we sit day after day without a fire, perhaps have a little in the grate at evening. No ice or snow here… Autograph letter signed – ALS. Beautiful stationary, with scalloped edge, floral monogram. It also says in care of C. Postal postmark of Brooklyn, Calif. Seems rare, as the town only existed for a number of years. In good to very good condition. The letter itself is quite nice, with fold marks. The cover envelope has rips (looks to have been archivally repaired). Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect 19th century Americana advertisement ad history, United States mourning, American post mortem, funeral, death or cemetery related, west coast travel, etc. This is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Brooklyn is a former city in Alameda County, California, now annexed to Oakland, California. 1857 Map showing Brooklyn. Brooklyn first formed from the amalgamation in 1856 of two settlements, the sites of which are both now within the city limits of Oakland: San Antonio and Clinton. [1] In 1870, Brooklyn absorbed the nearby town of Lynn, which housed a footwear industry, and incorporated as a city. The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad had built a station at San Antonio. [1] When the Central Pacific Railroad took over the line in 1870, the name was changed to Brooklyn. In 1872, voters approved their city’s annexation by Oakland. [1] Afterward, when the Southern Pacific Railroad took over the rail line in 1883, the Brooklyn station name was changed to East Oakland. A post office was opened in Brooklyn in 1855; it became a branch of the Oakland post office in 1878. Looking at historical maps, Brooklyn is shown as a fairly large area, lying adjacent and to the south of Lake Merritt and the Piedmont tract, and adjacent and to the north of Alameda, the San Leandro Creek, and the town of San Leandro. Today this is East Oakland. /; Spanish for “Saint Francis”, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California, with 815,201 residents as of 2021, [22] and covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers), [23] at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U. City after New York City and the fifth most densely populated U. County, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U. Cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income[24] and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. [25] Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay. San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when Settlers from New Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi. [3] The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, transforming an unimportant hamlet into a busy port, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time; between 1870 and 1900, approximately one quarter of California’s population resided in the city proper. [25] In 1856, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county. [29] After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, [30] it was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. [31] It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. [32][33][34] After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, the rise of the beatnik and hippie countercultures, the sexual revolution, the peace movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, [35][36] spurred by leading universities, [37] high-tech, healthcare, FIRE, and professional services sectors. [42] San Francisco was ranked seventh in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of March 2022. [43] Despite an exodus of business from the city center accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, [44] the Bay Area is still the home to four of the world’s ten largest companies by market capitalization, and the city proper houses the headquarters of numerous companies inside and outside of technology, including Wells Fargo, Salesforce, Uber, Airbnb, Twitter, Levi’s, Gap, Dropbox, and Lyft. One of the top tourist destinations in the United States, San Francisco is known for its steep rolling hills and eclectic mix of architecture across varied neighborhoods, as well as its cool summers, fog, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Alcatraz, and Chinatown and Mission districts. [48] The city is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, the SFJAZZ Center, and the California Academy of Sciences. Two professional sports teams, MLB’s San Francisco Giants, and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, all play their home games within San Francisco proper. Transport to, from, and within San Francisco is also among the most robust in the nation, with a main international airport flying to over 125 destinations and a light rail and bus network in tandem with the BART and Caltrain systems connecting nearly every part of San Francisco with the wider region. San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U. State of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California. Water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and from the Sierra Nevada mountains, flow into Suisun Bay, which then travels through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay. It then connects to the Pacific Ocean via the Golden Gate strait. However, this entire group of interconnected bays is often called the San Francisco Bay. The bay was designated a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on February 2, 2013. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Paper\Correspondence\Pre-1900″. The seller is “dalebooks” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1900
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States