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A reply of Maj.-Gen. William B. Franklin : to the report of the joint committee of Congress on the conduct of the war
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
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Visual Materials
A collection of various Civil War photographs that were bound into an album (now disbound), and were compiled by John P. Nicholson, Civil War veteran and collector. The albumen prints are approximately 10 x 12 1/2 inches, mounted on boards, with a few small, amateur photographs pasted on backs of some boards. The album begins with views of City Point by William Hathaway, including General U.S. Grant's headquarters and other barracks, and civilian men and women aboard a steamboat. Views in Richmond depict Libby Prison, building ruins, and Jefferson Davis' residence. Other subjects are: Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; soldiers and officers; an army camp at Scottstown, Alabama; an army bridge created from boats at Fredericksburg, Virginia (1862); U.S. Colored Troops standing in formation at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia (approximately 1863); Citizens' Volunteer Hospital; and a group of Black and white children, men, and women at "Scott House, opposite Fredericksburg." There are two photographs of illustrations by Civil War artist James E. Taylor depicting the Battle of Vermillion Bayou and Custer's charge through a Cheyenne village, Wyoming (1868). The album is disbound, and four photographs have been matted and housed in Box 2.
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Manuscripts
The papers consist primarily of correspondence written by Franklin A. Buck from 1846 to 1881 to his sister, Mary Sewall Bradley, living in Bucksport, Maine . The collection consists of 225 cataloged items, 1 piece of ephemera, and 150 envelopes. They detail his activities in New York City until early 1849 and then his life in various parts of California and Nevada from 1849 to 1881. Because Franklin regularly addresses his letters and envelopes to his sister as Mary Sewall Bradley and does not include her maiden name, the cataloging of the collection reflects this use. Most of the letters detail Buck's life in California and Nevada between 1849 and 1881, and they document various floods, local and national politics, and the Civil War. The letters also illustrate the nature of frontier and pioneer life, gold and silver mining, ranching, and 19th century social life and customs in California and Nevada. The Weaverville letters also include descriptions of the local Chinese community, and the collection is dotted with comments by Buck on the California and Nevada Indians. The collection also contains five letters from Franklin to his father, Rufus A. Buck, who was also living in Bucksport, maine. There are also six letters to Mary Sewall Bradley from Franklin's younger brother, Sewall Buck, which were written from California between 1851-1854. There is also an exchange of letters between Franklin and a friend named Edwin Kirk in San Francisco, California, in 1852. At the end of the collection is a typed document by Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868-1966) which discusses the Franklin A. Buck correspondence. Portions of many of the letters were published in A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush: The Letters of Franklin A. Buck, compiled by Katherine A. White (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930).
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Manuscripts
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly official documents and correspondence related to McDermott's career, particularly his military service. Included are orders, appointments, commissions, reports, requests and bills for medical supplies, and correspondence. The papers contain a report on the examination and treatment of those wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a letter to his father describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg. There are also McDermott's credentials, his Masonic diplomas and correspondence, passports, certificates, and other documents. Also included are poems and an essay on the history of the City University of New York, written by McDermott, as well as, scattered family records, some daguerreotype portraits, an 1873 notebook containing formulas for medicines kept by Dr. John B. Crosby, and a petition signed by "Her Majesty's Protestant subjects" of St. John, New Brunswick, about a ban on secret societies, which was allegedly sought by "Roman Catholics" in order to "prevent Protestants meeting together to hold loyal associations," dated 1844.
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Manuscripts
In a letter presumably about Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce, Pierce states that he received the biography and sends thanks. Mentions that he saw Hawthorne at the shoals yesterday.
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Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with the professional and personal activities of Samuel Brooks Morris, a civil engineer of note in Southern California who was most active from the 1930s into the early 1960s. The collection deals with local (Pasadena and Los Angeles), state and national engineering concerns, largely related to water reclamation, dams, hydrogeology, water litigation, and a wide range of related technical publications. The material consists of a highly diverse mix of manuscripts and printed materials, including correspondence, maps, notes, charts, fliers, and brochures, often interspersed within each folder. The correspondence is primarly to and from colleagues, but also includes discusion with government officials at all levels from local to national. The collection includes a small number of photographs, located in appropriate sections of the collection by subject.
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