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Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia

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    Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

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    Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

    111944

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    Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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    Includes journals of the adjourned, regular and extra sessions

    474569

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    Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania ; devoted to the mechanic arts, manufactures, general science, and the recording of American and other patent inventions (varies slightly), v. 5, 1830

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    Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59. Cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]

    750190

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    Georgia Willis Read Papers

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains research material compiled by American historian and author Georgia William Read and Ruth Gaines for their publication of the journal of California Gold Rush topographer and artist J. Goldsborough Bruff (1804-1899) The majority of it is arranged alphabetically by topic. This series is made up mostly of research notes by Read and Gaines. The research material also includes copies of the book's acknowledgement, bibliography, introduction, and index as well as Read and Gaines' correspondence with Columbia University Press. There are a few folders of material organized by type: miscellaneous notes (4 folders) and research notebooks (7 items, one of which is in oversize). Correspondence by Read and Gaines are mostly their retained, unsigned, copies. The correspondence is chiefly letters written between them and research libraries or other scholars to obtain information for or to obtain permission to publish material in their book. Notable participants are: Herbert Eugene Bolton, Frederick Coykendall, Edward Eberstadt, Francis Farquhar, Max Farrand, Frederick Webb Hodge, C. Hart Merriam, Herbert Priestley, the Bancroft Library, California Historical Society, California State Library, Henry E. Huntington Library, Library of Congress, United States National Archives, the Newberry Library, Smithsonian Institution, Southwest Museum and Yale University Library. The ephemera contains scholarly publications, clippings, maps, index cards, an oversize sheet with copies of several of Bruff's sketches, and several photostats. The photostats include 19th century newspapers (including two Native American publications: Cherokee advocate and Vinita leader), maps (including all four parts of the "Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, Mo. To S. Francisco" by T. H. Jefferson), and Bruff's journal. Many of the photostats are rolled. Subjects covered by the collection are: Hubert Howe Bancroft, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, Bruff's journey, camp, sketches and journal, Edwin Bryant, Alonzo Delano, John Charles Frémont, Peter Lassen, John Muir, Fort Hall (Idaho), frontier and pioneer life in early California, Indians in North America, overland journeys to the Pacific, the California Trail, the Lassen cutoff and National Park, and California history including the Gold Rush.

    mssRead papers

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    Brock Collection: Senate documents of Virginia General Assembly (Alexandria government)

    Manuscripts

    State papers, largely Senate documents with emphasis on the final period of the War. Included are the Senate Journal of Secret Sessions, original drafts and printed proofs of bills, acts, resolutions, communications, committee reports, etc. Principal topics of legislation are: finances and banks; re-organization of the armed forces, including slave and "free Negro" volunteers, salaries of soldiers and officers, supplies, exemptions from military serves, AWOL, amnesty to soldiers; civilian relief and public defense, escaped slaves, etc.

    mssBR Boxes 236-240

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    Homer E. Jenne journal

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    Homer E. Jenne started his journal January 1, 1880. The Jenne family lived in Soquel, California. Although Homer helps out on the family ranch, he is a certified teacher and taught at several rural schools in Santa Cruz County. Jenne discusses his search for employment; studying for and taking teachers' exams; his hardships as a teacher; his courtship of and marriage to his neighbor Millie Cahoon; a trip to Portland and Dalles, Oregon and Washington State; visits to Santa Cruz; and his purchase of a ranch in Ben Lomond, California. Homer sold books to earn extra income as well as invented a calculating machine, for which he was pursuing a patent when the journal ends. The last 26 pages of the journal are Jenne's financial accounts for the years 1880-1882.

    mssHM 66660