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An assortment of recipes from all regions of Florida, some dating back to the state's earliest times, representing many ethnic cuisines like Creole, Latin, Jewish, and Bahamian, Spanish, Southern, Greek, and the Seminole Indians.
640790
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This indenture is between Elijah Weeks, B. W. Croake and L. E. Meyer. It gives Weeks "the right and privilege...to dig, drill, bore for, develop, extract,...hold, own, sell and remove all oil and gas" from a section of land in Los Angeles (owned by Croake and Meyer). The document also contains an extension to the original agreement.
mssHM 75989
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These three circular letters, from the office of E. G. Lewis in Atascadero, California, are pleas for investments in oil fields owned by Lewis in Wyoming (the Greybull and Alkali Dome fields) and California (Temblodero). In the letters he talks about the oil already being found on these properties, gives reports and updates on the fields' progress since the last letter, his plans to drill more wells and the expected income to be earned by investors. There are blank forms enclosed for investors to complete and return.
mssHM 72091-72093
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The collection contains letters, documents, maps and reports related to the professional activities of mining engineer Harley A. Sill. There are reports on ores and mines and technical data, chiefly from California, Arizona, Nevada, Canada and Mexico. There are also some reports on mines in other parts of the United States and in South and Central America. There is also one small box containing bibliographical references related to mines and metallurgy (Box 15).
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"Tax Free City? Taxpayers $ Millions $ of oil and gas now being forever lost to drainage from 500 unused city drill sites strategically situated on 15 miles of filled channels (meandering dark green strips) and other city tide-land trust property, both filled and unfilled. Oil revenues would save 1000 tax dollars daily interest now paid by citizens on huge harbor debt." The green map is a blown up section of a USGS map of 1896. Red overlays shows the land filled sections in question, some now privately held and developed, from Terminal Island to west Long Beach. California statute gives the mineral rights to the City of all tideland and submerged lands. Today's Long Beach and Los Angeles Harbors have been filled well beyond these limits. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
252237
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The collection contains letters, documents, maps and reports related to the professional activities of mining engineer Harley A. Sill. There are reports on ores and mines and technical data, chiefly from California, Arizona, Nevada, Canada and Mexico. There are also some reports on mines in other parts of the United States and in South and Central America. There is also one small box containing bibliographical references related to mines and metallurgy (Box 15).
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