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[Barclay & Co. advertisement for "Life and confession of John D. Lee, the Mormon" and "Five years among the Indians"]
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Florence Barclay Hyatt Photograph Collection
Visual Materials
This collection contains 50 photographs (28 prints, 21 tintypes, and 1 daguerreotype), collected by Florence Barclay Hyatt (born 1865), who moved with her family to the Dakota Territory as a child and later ran a boarding house in Bismarck, North Dakota. The photographs include 14 card photographs chronicling the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in southwestern South Dakota from 1890 to 1891. Photographs show images of the corpses of Sioux Indians in a mass grave, Chief Hollow Wood, Chief Young Man Afraid of his Horses, council meetings amongst Sioux chiefs, the Ghost Dance, Pine Ridge Indian Agency, Indian police, the Pine Ridge Agency hospital, Indian men and women, and the remnants of Indian camps. Eight views of the mid-Western United States include Sioux Indian Red Tomahawk; Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota; the 1890 Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa; and various nature scenes. The Northwestern Photographic Company created the Wounded Knee Massacre photographs (1-14). F.B. Fiske created photograph (15) of Red Tomahawk, and Brown & Wait created photograph (21) of the Corn Palace at Sioux City, Iowa. Additionally, the collection also includes 28 Civil War era tintypes, carte-de-visites and card photographs, and one daguerreotype depicting Florence Barclay Hyatt's family members from the Askren, Johnson, Kirkpatrick, Messenger, and Ruark families. Some of the sitters have been identified while others remain unknown.
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Life Among the Miners
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Image contains thirteen vignettes with a poetic description below each. The vignettes depict different aspects of mining life including where and how miners live, what miners do for entertainment, what miners dream about, troubles that befall miners, and good fortunes that befall miners. "Published by Hutchings & Rosenfield, 146 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Printed by S.H. Wade, Era Builidng, 151 Clay Street."--text, below image. 'No.2"--text, upper right corner, indicating that this image may be part of a series. There is some handwriting on the verso of this sheet. Paper color: blue.
48052:100
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Five-Year Plan, 1983 - 1987
Manuscripts
Approx. 100-pp. of material subsumed under Five Year Plan, 1983 - 1987, with tabbed sections named "Introduction," "Summary," "Objectives," "Market Outlook," "The Plan," "Forecasted Results," "Corporate Financial Schedules," and "Appendices." Accompanying memo is dated 3/21/1984.
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The Life and travels of Josiah Mooso : a life on the frontier among Indians and Spaniards, not seeing the face of white woman for fifteen years
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Mooso was of a Canadian family, and came to the U.S. in the thirties. The greater part of the book relates to his adventures on the western frontier in the forties and early fifties. Settled in Cowley Co., Kan., about 1870
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B. D. Wilson & Co. Burgundy label
Manuscripts
A white label, printed with black lettering and decoration, for a Burgundy wine from B.D. Wilson & Co. in San Gabriel, California. The central decoration is an upside down five-pointed star with an arc of vines on either side and a bunch of grapes in the center.
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Five year strategic plan (2001-2005)
Manuscripts
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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