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Manuscripts
This spiral-bound manuscript is a 30-page family biography of Wilford Heath Hudson that also recounts some Mormon history. It includes a family tree and a loose photocopy of an 1850 advertisement of goods for sale on Mormon Island.
mssHM 69945
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This album contains 161 real photo postcards (157 were produced from images taken by Rollin W. Maxam) of rural scenes in North Dakota during the early decades of the 20th century, approximately 1901-approximately 1915. Images depict scenes of farming, ranching, homesteads, railroads, a rodeo, harvesting equipment, livestock, trappers, hunting, and individuals (including members of Maxam's family). Most of the images have captions printed on the front of the cards and 94 of the postcards have captions written by Maxam, on verso. The captions, usually quite detailed, provide contextual information about the buildings, individuals, town, topographic feature or event portrayed in the image. Most of the images were taken in or near Schafer, North Dakota and surrounding locations in McKenzie County, but there are images of other North Dakota towns throughout the state.
mssHM 83831
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Visual Materials
Probable date based on history of when Muncie Skates were manufactured and advertised. Thad A. Neely patented the Muncie roller skate model in 1882. Advertisements appear on Newspapers.com from 1883 for the Muncie adjustable skate. Printer, J.M.W. Jones was active from 1867-1905. "We Use the Muncie Skate of Muncie, Ind." --text, top of print. "Grand Roller Skating Assemblies." --text, bottom of print. "Lith. by the J.M.W. Jones S&P. Chicago." --text, center, bottom of margin.
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Visual Materials
The Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera contains materials from Europe and North America dating from 1493 to the late 2010s. The bulk of the collection consists of greeting cards exchanged on Valentine’s Day, dating from approximately 1840 to 1930. Early handcrafted valentine cards found within the greeting cards subseries demonstrate folk art methods of pinpricking, paper cutting, paper folding, painting, puzzle making, and illustration. Other cards dating from the Victorian era include comic or “vinegar” valentines, paper lace valentines, cobweb valentines, and cards created by various printing, embossing, and assemblage techniques. Many of the late 19th-century cards are dimensional and mechanical paper constructions, made with a combination of die-cut scraps, honeycomb tissue paper, and levers, strings, or wheels that enable the cards to pop-up or move. Also included in the collection are greeting cards exchanged for other holidays and events, friendship cards dating from the Biedermeier era, friendship albums with locks of hair, language of flowers almanacs and booklets, matrimonial documents, sachets, verse writers, religious devotional items, mourning cards, scrapbook albums, and correspondence relating to love and courtship. The collection also contains artifacts and three-dimensional items such as fans, jewelry boxes, shadow boxes, and additional items, some of which include fragile, glass components. Smaller portions of the collection include educational ephemera, such as rewards of merit and bookmarks, and American Civil War ephemera, such as greeting cards and song sheets. Additional materials include artist and organizational files relating to illustrator Catherine “Kate” Greenaway, printer Louis Prang, and 20th-century greeting card companies Rust Craft and Norcross. The last series of this collection contains research materials compiled by valentine scholar Charles Albert Reed and by Nancy Rosin. The materials consist largely of secondary sources, notes, and newspaper clippings.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains a wide range of material including research material for his major publications (Hawaiian Antiquities, Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii, and Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula), correspondence, short stories, essays, poetry, Hawaiian mele, notebooks, biographical sketches, diaries, book reviews, land deeds, wills, affidavits, ephemera, photographs and early drafts of Emerson's published work. The majority of the collection was written, collected or translated by Emerson; however, the collection does contain material by other Emerson family members and notable historical figures of Hawaiian history, such as W. D. Alexander, William R. Castle, Abraham Fornander, Davida Malo, Robert W. Wilcox, and several others. The subjects covered in this collection are: Emerson family history; the American Civil War and army hospitals; Hawaiian ethnology and culture; the Hawaiian revolutions of 1893 and 1895; Hawaiian politics; Hawaiian history; Polynesian history; Hawaiian mele; the Hawaiian hula; leprosy and the leper colony on Molokai; and Hawaiian mythology and folklore.
EMR 200.
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This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.
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