Letter

Pictorial lettersheet with lithograph view of St. James Hotel, San Diego, printed by Schmidt Label & Litho. Co. of San Francisco

• 1884 Feb. 3

• Vacher, Herbert

• Schmidt Label & Litho. Co

4 sheets (8 pages) : illustrations ; 22 x 14 cm

text

Handwritten text on both sides of each sheet. Accompanied by original pictorial mailing envelope

Manuscript letter by Englishman Herbert Vacher during an around-the-world trip, mailed to his sister Annie in Surrey. Includes description of his trek from Nevada to Truckee (where he hiked on snowshoes), thence to Dutch Flats where he explored the old hydraulic mining ruins, describing the environmental degradation caused therefrom: "I need hardly say that this sort of work completely spoils the face of the country turning it into barren wastes, of gravel pits & unnatural cliffs of ballast & sand." After a steamer voyage to San Diego he described the El Cajon Valley, where he stayed at the Thomas Ranch

• California
• El Cajon Valley (California)
• San Diego (California)
• San Diego County, California

• Pictorial works

• St. James Hotel (San Diego, Calif.)

• Hotels
• Hydraulic mining--Environmental aspects
• Travel

• text

• English

San Diego, Calif. :

Public domain (US)

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2020-10-27