The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-09-14

Stone mort1rs. 1natatas, pottery, idols,
dolls to delight the papoose, war clubs,
buckskln suit and moccasins, baskets
chiefs and of Indian maidens illustrate
the history of this period better than
| many written page would do.
| Next III order is valuable collection
OF documents, rich In historical matter.
THESE and many others in Mr.. Coronel's
extensive collection will be used in the
preparation OF his forthcoming book. In
the last case on the right is collection of
articles exhibited by Andronica Sepul-
veda. bride owned by his father is
| perhaps the richest and most valuable of
Its kind in California. The reins are
made of plated silver wire and the
mountings are of silver and gold. The
| saddle is equally rich in finish. A pic
ture Of Don Jose Sepulveda mounted on
| fiery steed decorates the wall. The leg
gings used with the saddle and bride are
rich in finish and very ornamental.
! The serapa of Don Jose is fringed
around with heavy gold thread and or
namented with bangles and buttons of
| solid gold.
IN tnls case is serapa nlnety-one years
old. 1t is in an excellent state of preserv-
alton. On the wall at this end of the
| wal! space are fourteen pictures of
Chrlsts Passion or positions of the cross.
|
over 100 years ago. 1t is said that he
| manufactured his own colors. Consider
| ing that these were made by neophyte
| and less than twenty years after the adj
vent of the missionaries in California
they show great faculty of imitation i'll
| the Indian.
The four upright cases that complete
Mrs. CoronePs beautiful and invaluable
collection are filled with rich and varied
| assortment OF shawls, reboSaS, cloakS
and dresses; laces hundred years old,
delicate and beautiful as a spiders web;
silks heavy enough to stand alone: shawls
that were brought from China and India
nearly hundred years ago, the colors as
bright and the figures as beautiful as they
were when first untolded in Alta Cali
fornia.
a lace mantilla worn eighty years ago
| by Donna Vincenta Redoma is a thing of
| beauty.
A wedding dress of Sonora Andrea de
! Yorba in 1852, hounced and furbelowed
in the fashion of that day.
A wedding veil of the fiber of the pine
apple tree, made in Spanish drawn work,
worked by an old Indian woman.
y chemise $50 years old, made in
! Mexico.
Drawn work made by the Mission In
dams for Helen Hunt Jackson, who de-
! signed writing book on this species of
the work of the Indians, but died before
she completed the work.
A fur cloak of white ermine worn fifty
years ago.
Tortoise shell combs towering a foot
above the head of the wearer, rich in
workmanship.
| The committee who got together
this large collection deserve great praise
for their industry and enterprise. Mr..
and Mrs. CorOnel have been collecting
! curlos illustrative Of California history
| nd ho lar
OF that kind on the Pacific Coast. They
deserve great credit for their efforts to
preserve relics and records of the past
Their collection is the history of Califor-
mia in series of object lessons. They
| have periodically refused all offers to sell
1t and will, it is hoped, at some time
place it in a historical museum where it
will benefit generations unborn. Mrs.
Coronel has been constant in her attend
ance at the fair and ready at all times to
explain anything in her collection. She
is Chairman of the delegation from Los
Angeles. She has been ably assisted in
getting together her collection by her
sister, Miss Louise Williamson, and
Andronica Sepulyeda. Miss Celia Katie
and Miss Franc McCleary Of the Native
Daughters were early in the field collect
ing and secured many valuable curios
that go to make up the Los Angeles col
lection. They have been constant in
! their attendance.
Professor j. NJ. Quinn, of the County
Committee, and also of the Historical So
ciety's committee, labored assiduously in
collecting from different parts of the
county relics and curios. He is in at
tendance day and evening, and is always
ready to explain to visitors the uses and
history of the various articles on exhibit
ton. Los Angeles deserves great credit
| for the exhibit she has sent, and the ex-
hibitors who have come with it are proud
of their display.
Last year the Historical Society of
| Southern California issued 220-pag vol
ume of documents from the Sutro collec-
ton. 1t is in Spanish, with facing-page
to each in English, the translations being
made by George B. Griffin, President Of
the society. There are nineteen docu-
ments In the volume, relating to early ex-
ploration of the California coast, mission
airy settlements, journals, etc. They have
never before been published, and are of
| deep interest. A number of copies have
been brought here. and can be procured
| from Professor Quinn, of the Los An
geles section. 1t is work that ought to
| be in every library in the State for its his
| toric worth.
THE FIRST NEWSPAPER.
| In the Santa Clara section of the His
torical Exhibit is the first newspaper ever
published in San Francisco. Its title is,
"An Extra in Advance of the CdLifo77ad
STAR and it's date is ''Yerba Buena, Oc-
tober 81, 1876" Sam Brannan was it's edi-
tor, and the price of the paper is lone
real" 1t is queer little seven by nine
single sheet, and the news it brought by
Overland Mair' must have been of abb
sorbing interest to the inhabitants of
| Yerba Buena at that time.
The headlines on the first column are
! interesting: Important News from the
United States-Oregon Question Settled
Defeat of the Mexican Army-Official