Certificate for birth aboard ship sailing to Gold Rush
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Heading: (California Gold Rush)
Author: [Kolling?], J.C.C.
Title: Autograph Document certifying a birth in mid-ocean en route from Europe to California
Place Published: San Francisco
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Date Published: Jan. 19, 1853
Description:
Author: [Kolling?], J.C.C.
Title: Autograph Document certifying a birth in mid-ocean en route from Europe to California
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: Jan. 19, 1853
Description:
9x5½", 1 pg with embossed red seal.
"...on the passage from Hamburg to Valparaiso and San Francisco, a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Pohlmann on December 13, 1852, at Latitude 13 degrees N and 117 degrees W."
The father of the infant was possibly the son of German immigrant Henry Kohlmann, who partnered with French immigrant Augustus Bellemere in a prominent San Francisco manufacturing jewelry firm that opened for business in San Francisco the same year as Levi's and Shreve's.
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Chipping in upper margin, with no loss of text; good.
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Certificate for birth aboard ship sailing to Gold Rush
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