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Coast to coast with the Elks

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Description: "The purpose of this book is to summerize the experiences and observations of three Philadelphia Elks in a tour over the old Santa Fe Trail by auto-truck from the Quaker City to the city of Los Angeles."--Preface.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1922]
Call number: 624129
Creator: Davis, Thomas W(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 20 cm
Associated people: Bliss, Carey S.,; Metcalf, Edwards H.
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Chrysler sedan advertising for the Elks National Convention in Seattle. 1931

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Two men stand next to a Chrysler sedan, an Evergreen pictorial travelogue car, with an advertisement for the 1931 Elks National Convention in Seattle. The images on the side of the car are photographs of rural and urban landmarks.

photCL 402 (33207)

Chrysler sedan advertising for the Elks National Convention in Seattle. 1931

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photCL 402 (33445)

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The Santa Fe trail to California : a tale of the experiences of a party of eight boys on the old trail to Santa Fe and the Spanish trails to California and old Mexico

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"The author and seven boys left Ohio in June [1933?] driving a Ford truck. They travelled across Ohio, Kansas and the Santa Fe Trail to California ... written in the form of questions and answers on local history as they crossed the country." --Bliss, Carey S. Autos across America

624130

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Thomas Richardson diary

Manuscripts

This diary was compiled by descendants of Thomas Richardson in 1838 and contains extracts of the letters, journals, and memoranda of Richardson from between 1780 and 1794. Thomas Richardson documented daily life in a prosperous Quaker household and records observations about education, religion, natural philosophy, abolitionism, and domestic medicine. There are accounts of electrical experiments and electrotherapeutic treatments conducted by the family, including a 1786 description of the Richardson family attempting to revive a recently dead woman using electric shocks. The diary also includes examples of children's writing, education, and intellectual life in late eighteenth-century England. The volume is written in a single copyist's hand and is bound in contemporary marbled paper over boards.

mssHM 84540

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The Oregon Trail : The Highway of the Pioneers to the Pacific Northwest

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"From Westport, now Kansas City to Oregon City by way of Fort Kearney, Laramie, Bridger, Hall and Boise, also the Sublette and Lander Cutoffs and the Boseman and Appplegate Trails and the Overland Trail to the Sacramento Valley and the California Gold Mines." A colorful pictorial map of the West. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial & hachures. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography.

302408

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Trinidad Coast

Manuscripts

The collection contains J. Goldsborough Bruff's oversize revised version of his journal (c. 1853) which documents his journey across the American plains in 1849 by way of Lassen's Trail. Also included in the collection are 264 drawings of scenes from his overland journey, of various places he visited in California, and of his sea voyage to the Eastern United States via Mexico and Panama. Many of Bruff's drawings are in pencil, but thirty-eight of them were drawn with pastels and are in color.

HM 8044 (219)

Coast to coast with the Elks

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