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Sutter’s Fort California History Section Display: September 2016 Visual Materials Baggelmann, Ted. [Sutter's Fort]. N.D. Blake, Orville T. [Sutter’s Fort] (3 Views). Graphic, 1929. Bradley & Rulofson, photographers. The 'Bee's' Admission Day Souvenirs, Gen. John A. Sutter…. , 1884 Bruce Gimelson Autographs. [Auction Records of sales of some of his letters]. S. l. : Bruce Gimelson Au- tographs, 1968 circa California. Department of Parks and Recreation.. Sutter's Fort: State Historic Park. Sacramento: Cali- fornia. Department of Parks and Recreation., 1989 California. Legislature. Assembly.. Assembly Bill No. 2584: An act appropriating money for the repairs, improvements, equipage and furnishing of Sutter's Fort in Sacramento and providing for the use thereof. [Sacramento] : California Legislature. Assembly, 1937, January 22 California. Legislature. Assembly.. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 24: Relative to the one hun- dredth anniversary of the founding of the City of Sacramento and the Sacramento-Golden Em- pire Centennial Celebration. [Sacramento] : California Legislature. Assembly, 1939, April 12 [California State Library, California History Section]. [Binder]. [Sacramento] : [California State Li- brary, California History Section], N.D. Central Building. , 1890 circa City of Sacramento |State of California. You are cordially invited to attend Sacramento's birthday com- memoration celebration: 1839-1964. [Sacramento] : N.S., 1964, August John Augustus Sutter, Sr. Graphic, 18. McCurry, Foto Co. [Burro Packtrain Leaving Sutter’s Fort for Bay Bridge Opening, 1936] (2 Views). Graphic, 1936. ———. [Southeast Bastion, Sutter’s Fort] (5 Views). Graphic, 19. ———. Kitchen and Dining Room. Graphic, 1939. ———. Fort Sutter departure point for Progress of Transportation Pageant: Stage Coach. [San Fran- cisco]: Hoover-Young [San Francisco] Bay Bridge Commission, 1936 Program: Re-opening of Sutter's Fort Museum. [Sacramento] : N.S., 1926, October 31 Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Come to Sacramento in 1928. Sacramento: Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, 1928 Sacramento, History Online: 2001-2002. View of Captain Sutter’s Fort, near Sacramento City, Califor- nia, Now Manned by U.S. Troops, 1851. Sketching Class. Graphic, 188AD. Smith, Joe. Sacramento Bee. Sacramento: Sacramento Bee, 1954, August 19 Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880. [Invitation]. [Sacramento] : N.S., 1850 27 - Sutter's Fort, before restoration, Sacramento, California. San Francisco : Edward H. Mitchell, 1907 circa "Sutter's Fort." Built in 1840-1841 (1847 penciled in). San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, 1847 circa Sutter's Fort, near Sacramento, where Gold was first discovered in California, 1848. San Francisco : Britton & Rey, 1905 circa Sutter's Gold Days! Celebration Sacramento Wed. Mar. 25, 1936. 1936. Sutter's Hock Farm (in color) and view of Sutter's Fort (in color) painted on reverse side. , N.D. Time travel to 1846 at Sutter's Fort. [Sacramento] : N.S., 1985 circa California History Room 900 N Street, Room 200 Sutter’s Fort California History Section Display: September 2016 Books Beals, Frank Lee. The Rush for Gold. Chicago: Wheeler Pub. Co, 1946. Book, Club of California, and Press Colt. Pioneers of the Sacramento: A Group of Letters by & about Johann Augustus Sutter, James W. Marshall & John Bidwell. Edited by Edwin E. Grabhorn and Robert Grabhorn. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1953. C., K. McClatchy senior high school. Early Day Romances; Sutter’s Fort, 1847-1848. Sacramento, Calif: The Nugget press, 1943. Cendrars, Blaise. L’or: La Merveilleuse Histoire Du Général Johann August Suter. Paris: Les e ditions de la nouvelle France, 1924. Cendrars, Blaise, and Henry Logan Stuart. Sutter’s Gold. New York & London: Harper & brothers, 1926. Collins, Laura T., and Harry C. Peterson. Sutter’s Fort. Sacramento, Calif: Larkin printing company, 1939. Dillier, Werner C. A Short Biography of General Johann Augustus Sutter. Sacramento, Calif.: W.C. Dillier, 1996. Dillon, Richard H. Fool’s Gold: The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. ———. Fool’s Gold: The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California. Santa Cruz: Western Tanager, 1981. Goedsche, C. R., and Walter Glaettli. Sutter. Cultured Graded Readers, 1. Elementary. New York: American Book Compa- ny, 1955. Grunsky, Carl Ewald. The Restoration of Sutter’s Fort, the Native Sons’ Committee and the First Board of Sutter’s Fort Trustees, 1926. Hall, Carroll D., Club of California Book, and Press Allen. Heraldry of New Helvetia: With Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter’s Fort, 1845 to 1848. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1945. Hurtado, Albert L. John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Leinhard, Heinrich, and K. McClatchy Senior High School (Sacramento C. Calif.). I Knew Sutter. Sacramento, Calif: Nug- get Press, 1939. Lewis, Oscar. Sutter’s Fort: Gateway to the Gold Fields. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1966. Lienhard, Heinrich, and Erwin Gustav Gudde. From St. Louis to Sutter’s Fort, 1846. 1st ed. The American Exploration and Travel Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. Lienhard, Heinrich, and Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. A Pioneer at Sutter’s Fort, 1846-1850: The Adventures of Heinrich Lienhard. Calafia Series, no. 3. Los Angeles: The Calafia Society, 1941. Luce, Willard, Celia Luce, and Paul Frame. Sutter’s Fort: Empire on the Sacramento. How They Lived. Champaign, Ill: Garrard Pub. Co, 1969. McCarthy, Gary. The American River. Rivers West, bk. 7. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. McNeer, May. The California Gold Rush. Landmark Books 6. New York: Random House, 1950. Mellon, Steve, and Charlene Gilbert Noyes. Sacramento Then & Now. 1st ed. Gibsonia, Pa: Scripps Howard Pub, 1994. Nunis, Doyce Blackman, ed. The Bidwell-Bartleson Party: 1841 California Emigrant Adventure: The Documents and Mem- oirs of the Overland Pioneers. Brand Book / The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral 18. Santa Cruz, Calif: Western Tanager Press, 1991. Ottley, Allan R., and County Historical Society Sacramento. The Founder of Sacramento. [Sacramento, Calif: Sacramento County Historical Society, 1963. Owens, Kenneth N., ed. John Sutter and a Wider West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Piper, Paula. Sacramento’s Sutter Township: Connections through Time. First edition. Sacramento, CA: StoneBridge Properties, LLC, 2014. California History Room 900 N Street, Room 200 Sutter’s Fort California History Section Display: September 2016 Books Reading, Pierson Barton. Diary of P. B. Reading, 1843. [Sacramento, Calif: California State Library], 1962. Sacramento, Book Collectors Club, and Serpent Press Feathered. John A. Sutter’s Last Days: The Bidwell Letters. Edited by Allan R. Ottley. 1st ed. Publication / Sacramento Book Collectors Club, no. 10. Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1986. Schlossmuseum, (Burgdorf, Switzerland). Sutters gold =: Sutter’s gold: die lebensgeschichte von General Johann August Sutter = the life story of General Johann August Sutter. Edited by Werner Lu thi. Burgdorf, Switzerland: Scholossmuseum Burgdorf, 1998. Society, of California Pioneers. New Helvetia Diary: A Record of Events Kept by John A. Sutter and His Clerks at New Hel- vetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848. Edited by John Augustus Sutter, John Bidwell, W. F. Swasey, William N. Loker, and H. P. Van Sicklen. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press in arrangement with the Socie- ty of California pioneers, 1939. Stapp, Cheryl Anne. Sacramento Chronicles: A Golden Past. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013. Sutter, John Augustus, and Allan R. Ottley. The Sutter Family and the Origins of Gold-Rush Sacramento. Norman: Univer- sity of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Sutter, John Augustus, and John Sinclair. Sutter’s Brand Book. New Helvetia [Calif, 1845. Sutter’s, Fort Historical Museum (Sacramento, Calif.). Sutter’s Fort Historical Museum. Sacramento, Calif: Distributed by Printing division, Documents section, 1948. ———. Sutter’s Fort Historical Museum. Prepared by the Museum Staff. Sacramento, Calif: Distributed by Bureau of printing, Documents division, 1944. Underhill, Reuben Lukens. From Cowhides to Golden Fleece; a Narrative of California, 1832-1858, Based upon Un- published Correspondence of Thomas Oliver Larkin of Monterey, Trader, Developer, Promoter, and Only American Consul. Stanford University, Calif., London: Stanford university press; G. Cumberlege, Oxford university press, 1946. Zollinger, James Peter. Sutter, the Man and His Empire. New York, London [etc.]: Oxford university press, 1939. California History Room 900 N Street, Room 200 .
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