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  James Madison, Department of State, Washington, D.C., letter to Rufus King :

  Manuscripts

  Circular letter sent by Madison as secretary of state to United States ministers abroad; this copy was sent to Rufus King, Minister to the United Kingdom. Letter regarding possible threats of attack on American shipping in the Mediterranean Sea by the "Bashaw of Tripoli"; the U.S. sending three frigates, and a Sloop of War to the area. Also giving permission to share information about the situation with Great Britain. The letter documents the beginning of the Tripolitan War (1801-1805), also known as the First Barbary War or the Barbary Coast War.

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  [Man in a horse and buggy]

  Visual Materials

  This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery, and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales including Canada and England. Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Free Masons; the steamship "Parisian" in Liverpool, England; Palmdale, California train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia, California. Photographers are not identified.

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  Unidentified Man Drives Horse and Carriage

  Manuscripts

  The Albert R. Hibbs Papers, 1884-2009 (80 boxes) document the personal life and career of Hibbs as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs' consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. Although the collection arrived at The Huntington in disarray, original order of the materials was maintained when possible and the arrangement reflects Hibbs' general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The collection is divided into ten series: Audio Visual Materials, Consulting Files, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Notebooks, Personal Files, Photographs and Negatives, Presentations and Speeches, Publications and Writings, Teaching Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials are often dispersed through the series. For example, materials related to specific subjects are frequently represented in the JPL and Notebooks Series; similarly, Hibbs' friendship and collaboration with Roy L. Walford is documented in the Correspondence and Aging Research and Writings subseries of the Personal Series, in the Space Bioshpheres Ventures subseries of the Consulting series, as well as in the Audio Visual Materials Series. Correspondence is also dispersed throughout the series.

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  Mr. Weldt. The Father of Wilmington

  Visual Materials

  View of an older man, most likely determined to be William Weldt (1820-1907), who was an early settler and farmer in Wilmington, California. He is in front of a wooden house with a windmill in the background.

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  John Birch Society - Newspaper Industry Correspondence

  Manuscripts

  Approx. 30 items. Subjects include: correspondence between Williams and other U.S. editors; memo (June 15, 1964) describing tactics of John Rousselot in dealing with anti-JBS members of a Monrovia audience; Robert Notson, Editor of The Oregonian, wrote to Williams, "Otis Chandler's statement (condemning JBS) was forthright and courageous....I thought I would not see the day when conservatives attacked the Times." The letters filed here show strong support for The Times stance.

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  This view of the warehouses at Cascada shows the foot of the steep inclined railway (Incline #1) that was used to haul construction materials

  Visual Materials

  This view of the warehouses at Cascada shows the foot of the steep inclined railway (Incline #1) that was used to haul construction materials up to "The Basin," site of Huntington Lake reservoir. The little steam engine switching carloads of steel pipe at the right of the picture is #4, a refugee from the Manhattan Elevated Railway.

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