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The collection contains ledger books and documents related to El Dorado County government and administration, as seen in court records, land records, school records, treasury records (including tax rolls and assessment rolls), merchandising accounts (principally for mining camps), and mining papers and records.
mssEl Dorado County
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This collection consists of the business records of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company with articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, mining claims, reports, and legal documents. Also in the collection is a manuscript map of the mining claims of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company.
mssHM 65037-65060
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The majority of the collection deals with Leach's invention, the screw auger, and his various business ventures. There is also some material related to Leach's family into the beginning of the 20th century. The collection includes business records, correspondence and other miscellaneous material. The Business records include two account books, correspondence, receipts, bills, business contracts, documents dealing with several of Leach's projects including the Manhattan Company, and the water-works in Plymouth, Boston and Philadelphia, indentures, and contracts with manufacturers granting them exclusive rights to produce the augers. Several of these documents contain details about the screw auger and how it works, types of lumber used for the various projects, and the price of materials. The Correspondence includes personal letters by various Leach, Tinkham, and Gale family members. There are also several postcards, miscellaneous items, newspapers and clippings and empty envelopes.
mssLeach papers
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The documents provide insight into the business history and practices of the South Riverside Land and Water Company as well as the Jameson Packing House, which shipped citrus fruit, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
mssSouth Riverside Land and Water Company records
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This collection consists of company records, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and audiovisual material related to the Whittier family and company.
mssWhittier
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The collection contains manuscripts by Henry Ellsworth Wood, letters written by various authors, photographs, negatives, ephemera, an assay book, and photograph albums and scrapbooks. The collection spans several generations of the Wood family, focusing on the personal life and business activities of Henry Ellsworth Wood. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, including some 300 pieces from Henry Ellsworth Wood to his wife, Belle Matteson McGinnis Wood. These letters, composed over the fifty year period of their marriage, cover a wide range of aspects of their lives, including their immediate and extended family, their day-to-day activities, trips to visit family and friends, financial hardships, mining affairs in Colorado and Canada, and assorted business activities. Four generations of the Wood family are represented in the correspondence, including 69 letters composed between 1853 and 1856 by William Cowper Wood, his parents and siblings. The collection includes various drafts of Henry Ellsworth Wood's reminiscences of his childhood and early days in Leadville, the most comprehensive manuscript of this type being "I Remember." Also of note is the manuscript "Colorado in 1868," reproduced with commentary by Henry Ellsworth Wood from a notebook kept by his father, William Cowper Wood, during the 1868 John Wesley Powell expedition. The collection contains one assay book kept by Maurice Hayes between the years 1873 and 1878. Maurice Hayes arrived at Leadville no later than 1873, serving as one of the first assayers in the area and many early Leadville notables are entered in this record book. There are also several scrapbooks and photograph albums, approximately 1868 to approximately 1921.
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