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San Francisco, California, USA
1892
Original late-19th-century legal document backing sheet with the signature of Charles R. Morgan, a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire, residing in California.
Morgan appears in the 1888 California voter register as Charles R. Morgan, age 26, born about 1862 in Russia, and then residing in San Bernardino, California. By 1892, this document places him in San Francisco.
The sheet bears the handwritten name “Chas. Morgan” and has attractive period marbling on the reverse.
An interesting piece of Jewish-American, immigrant and California history, documenting a late-19th-century Jewish resident of California who had emigrated from the Russian Empire.
Charles R. Morgan
Born c. 1862, Russian Empire
San Bernardino, California, 1888
San Francisco, California, 1892
Original handwritten inscription on period paper with decorative marbled reverse.
An interesting document for collectors of Jewish-American history, Russian Jewish genealogy, San Francisco history, San Bernardino history, California ephemera, immigration history and 19th-century legal documents.
Scarce original 1892 Jewish-American California ephemera with attractive marbled reverse.
