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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Leo Shear collection, 1803-1903</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Shear, Leo.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  </name>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>225</extent>
    <extent>2</extent>
    <extent>0.6</extent>
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  <abstract>Collection of nineteenth-century correspondence, envelopes, and covers gathered by Leo Shear.  Subjects include agriculture, business, legal, political, and religious matters as well as family affairs.  Letters dated in 1849 pertain to the California Gold Rush.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Stamp collector.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Agriculture</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Gold discoveries</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Religion</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Stamp collectors</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm2010085556</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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