Manuscripts

Milburn E. Biddle papers

Description: The collection contains calculations related to North American Aviation, Elliptical-Type Springs, and the J-2 Block I Main Oxidizer Valve. There are also binders related to Milburn E. Biddle's professional experience and his innovations. There is also a Rocketdyne Division Propulsion Field Laboratory mechanic's handbook, a R-3896-1 F-1 Engine Data technical manual, and a program related to the principles of rocketry.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1955-1970
Call number: mssBiddle
Creator: Biddle, Milburn E (1917-2012)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Randy Biddle, September 2016.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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Calculations-Portfolios

Manuscripts

The collection contains calculations related to North American Aviation, Elliptical-Type Springs, and the J-2 Block I Main Oxidizer Valve. There are also binders related to Milburn E. Biddle's professional experience and his innovations. There is also a Rocketdyne Division Propulsion Field Laboratory mechanic's handbook, a R-3896-1 F-1 Engine Data technical manual, and a program related to the principles of rocketry.

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Soldier Handicrafts

Visual Materials

One booklet entitled Soldier Handicrafts, published by the Government Printing Office (War Department), Washington, copyright 1942. War Department Technical Manual TM28-325. This manual is 186 pages in length, and contains black and white illustrations. Also included is a 13-page select bibliography, providing additional references for further study of each of the handicrafts covered in the manual. The 27 chapters provide instructions, both visual and textual, for a wide variety of handicrafts, including: woodworking, metal work, block printing, drawing and illustration, clay modeling, painting and photography. This book is intended for use by military personnel in the special services program; it includes basic principles of methods and procedures for full scale, small group or individual handicraft operations.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Carter, Ledyard & Milburn

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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芥子園畫譜. Pt. 1

Rare Books

Part 1 of a four part set of woodblock-printed books; this part divided into five volumes. Presents the methods and principles of Chinese painting. The books cover a wide range of topics from trees, rocks, landscapes, flowers, plants, animals, insects, human figures and architectural designs. The preparation and application of colors on paper are also discussed. The mustard seed manual was highly influencial amongst artists and historians and became widely available throughout East Asia as evidenced by its prolific edition history through the 18th to 20th centuries. It is also an example of early Chinese multi-color woodblock printing.

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William Congreve papers

Manuscripts

The archive extends over six decades, from 1803 to 1869. Included in the archive are letters and manuscripts covering William Congreve's career in rocketry. The most notable of these is his diary of the 1807 Copenhagen bombardment, which represents the first truly successful large-scale use of the Congreve war rocket in combat. Other noteworthy manuscripts include a signed draft and a fair copy of a "Report to the Commissioners of the Navy" dated October 1813, in which Congreve summarized his war rocketry activities from 1805 to 1813; a letter dated November 1813 relating to "the expense, or rather the economy of the Rocket System"; bills for materials used in rocket construction; an undated letter to a Captain Elliot discussing the subject of a "rocket cavalry"; letters discussing a plan of "applying Rockets for throwing ropes ashore from shipwrecked vessels"; and letters in which Congreve writes of his achievements and his attitude towards his work. The archive also contains manuscripts and letters relating to some of Congreve's other inventions: naval guns, bombships, and Congreve's design for a paddlewheel boat, which is detailed in a long letter illustrated with Congreve's sketches. Also included are a long series of love letters that Congreve wrote to his wife, Isabella, and another series of long, detailed letters written to Congreve during the last few months of his life by his secretary, R. Drake, discussing, among other things, Congreve's political career as a Member of Parliament, his precarious financial position, the publication of his Treatise on the General Principles, Powers, and Facility of Application of the Congreve Rocket System (1827), and negotiations with the British East India Company for exclusive rights to the Congreve war rocket for use in India. Included in the remainder of the archive is a letter from Congreve's father, William Congreve Sr., to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), president of the Royal Society, discussing the elder Congreve's responsibilities at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Another series of letters, some written by Congreve, concern a will of which Congreve's aunt, Miss Mary Congreve, was the executrix. There are numerous letters written by Isabella Congreve after Congreve's death in 1828, mostly on financial matters-- Congreve's affairs were left somewhat embarrassed upon his death, and the archive includes several records of bills and promissory notes, both paid and owing. Lastly, there are several letters presumably written by Congreve's descendants, the last dated Feb. 1, 1869.

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