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Sturgis standard code of parliamentary procedure
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Coded Negatives and Transparencies
Manuscripts
This section includes both black and white and color negatives, as well as transparencies and some coded prints. They are in steel card file drawers, arranged by the code numbers assigned to them by Otis Marston. (There are other coded negatives, slides, and prints in other locations, where they are filed by date, location, subject, or photographer rather than by code.) Marston code The Marston code consists of three general elements: numbers representing the date of the photo; letters serving as an abbreviation for the subject; numbers representing any of a number of distinguishing characteristics. For example, 515 MECN 39.2 means a negative taken in May 1951 in Marble Canyon at milepost 39, the second exposure taken that day at that spot. Coded negatives are filed in strict chronological order by year, then month, and finally day. When these are identical, they are filed by letter subject code in strict alphabetical order. When these are identical, too, they are filed by the third element in the code (see below). In the first element of the code, the first two digits represent the year. For example, 70 indicates either 1870 or 1970, while 09, could mean either 1809 or 1909. The same years from different centuries (eg., 1870 and 1970) have been interfiled indiscriminately. Multiple years are filed after the last envelope of the first year. For example, 46-50 would follow 4612, or December 1946. As in this last example, the first two digits may be followed by others expressing the month and day. In this way, 586 would mean June 1958 (or 1858), 70-9-30 is September 30, 1970, and 09121 is either December 1 or January 21, 1909. The filing sequence is: 70, 70-1, 70-1-1, 70-1-2, 70-2, 70-2-1, 70-2-28, 70-3..., 70-12-31, 70-71, 71. The second element of the code consists of four letters, usually representing the first and last letters of the name of the subject or place. For example, Grand Canyon is GDCN and Norman Nevills is NNNS. Where there are more than one person as the subject, the letters may be split between the initials of the various persons. Thus, a photo of Masland and Marston might be MDMN, while one of Masland, Marston, Atherton, and Desloge might be MMAD. Occasionally there is a lack of consistency in the abbreviations: John Wesley Powell is both JNPL and JWPL; the steamer Cochan is both SRCN and CNSR. The third element, comprising a varying number of digits, can represent any one of several things, or, more often, a combination. In river scenes, the first of these numbers may stand for the milepost along the river depicted. For example, 566 MECN 48 is a photo taken June 1956 in Marble Canyon at mile 48. Alternatively, the number may be that of a negative or slide in a series of pictures of the same subject. Thus, 486 DKMN 3 is the third in a series of photos taken of Dock Marston in June 1948. Such series numbers are also commonly added after a milepost number when several photos were taken at the same spot; 566 MECN 48-3 indicates the third exposure taken there that day at mile 48. In this case, a dash or decimal point is used to separate the two numbers. Both should be read, and filed, as dashes (even though on occasion Marston himself filed the decimal points as decimals). Thus, the sequence would be 46.1, 46.2, 46.9, 46.10, 46.11, 46.99, 46.100 whether a dash or a decimal point were used. There may be a third number, representing perhaps a file number of a photo by a famous photographer or the frame number on a roll of 35mm film. Occasionally, a final number will indicate the existence of more than one frame on a strip of 35 mm film. For example, 615 CORR 16-1-4 might mean roll 16, frames 1 through 4. More often, when there are more than one frame in an envelope, as is commonly the case with 35mm negatives, each frame will be assigned its own slightly variant number, with all three or four code numbers listed on the same envelope (eg., 615 CORR 15-9 and 615 CORR 16-10). Since there are seldom cross references, this means one must look around a bit. I have filed these by the lowest number on the envelope, so one need only look up to the desired number. The 615 CORRs in the above example would be filed as 615 CORR 15-9.
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Bylaws and Parliamentary procedure
Manuscripts
The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.
mssFMC
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Bryant, Sturgis & Co., letter to Messers. Grant & Stone : photostat
Manuscripts
A photostat of an autograph letter from the Bryant, Sturgis & Co., to the company of Grant & Stone; they are requesting assistance with a small box of rough gold which is to be deposited at the Mint to be coined. The gold was from a mine in "Upper California" which was discovered in 1842, and the owner of the mine wished to know the value and purity of the gold; neither the name of the mine or owner are included in the letter. On the verso of the photostat is a penciled note: "Sent to the Huntington Library by Prof. Merk at the suggestion of Dr. F. J. Turner;" Frederick Merk was a historian and professor at Harvard University and the suggestion by Frederick Jackson Turner was made shortly before his death on March 14, 1932.
mssHM 84045
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[Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937]. Morse Code Legend
Manuscripts
The collection, which is housed in two boxes, is arranged in the following manner: first three authors are arranged by number of letters in the collection (Guglielmo Marconi, R. Norman Vyvyan and Annie Jameson Marconi, in that order), and the rest are arranged alphabetically by other authors. This collection consists of letters and telegrams from Guglielmo Marconi to his fiancé, Josephine Bowen Holman. There are also letters to Holman from Marconi's mother, Annie Jameson Marconi, one of his engineers, R. Norman Vyvyan, and various other correspondents (mainly family members). Portions of some of the letters to Holman from Marconi are written in Morse code, and there are pictures of his telegraph towers in Cornwall and two of his family home in Bologna. There are two manuscripts: Morse Code Legend written by Marconi and Holman's diary for January to April 1902. There are 6 pieces of ephemera, including two published copies of a paper by Marconi on the wireless telegraphy that he gave March 2, 1899 to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and 141 newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Marconi and Holman's relationship, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Morse Code, and Marconi's invention: the wireless telegraph.
mssMarconi correspondence
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United States Military Telegraph Code Books (EC 36-67)
Manuscripts
The collection is made up mostly of items related to Eckert's duties as part of the United States Military Telegraph Office during the Civil War, including 35 volumes of telegram ledgers containing roughly 16,000 telegrams from 1862 to 1866. These include telegrams both still in code and decoded (the sent messages are ciphered; the received telegrams are mostly decoded).
mssEC 1-76
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Psycho-cybernetics : a new way to get more living out of life
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