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San Marino, CA 91108
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Invoices and accounts of Brandt Schyler's business and estate. Schyler's main consigners were Isaac (1721-1784) and Nicolas (1713 - 1786) Gouverneur. The invoices list shipments of flour, nails, bread, gun powder, cocoa, cloth, thread, butter, candles, wax, and other goods to mostly to Curacao and Jamaica but also Philadelphia, and London. A 1744 entry lists "Scipio a Negro man belonging to George Gordon of Philadelphia," including "cash paid the Marshall for committing him to ye work House."
mssHM 637
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The papers of Harry Drell include correspondence from Ray Matsuno of Harvey Mudd College to Drell, printed material about the history of Lockheed, newspaper clippings, and printed matter including technical reports, design manuals, awards, and photographs. The majority of the material deals with Lockheed and their engineering department, and Drell's inventions, but some also deal with the Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd., jet plane noise, and thermal matter.
mssDrell
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This small group of material relates to Harris Sperling's career at Northrop Grumman Corporation. The material includes an article entitled "Why the B-2," published by the Air Force Association, 1991, a dissertation written by Francis J. Baker entitled "The Death of the Flying Wing: The Real Reasons Behind the 1949 Cancellation of Northrop Aircraft's RB-49," 1984, and photocopies, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed matter primarily related to the B-2. Also included is a commemorative book "Grumman F-14, Tomcat: Bye-Bye, Baby...!" It was compiled by Dave Parsons, George Hall, and Bob Lawson in 2006.
mssSperling
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The collection consists of letters (52 original manuscript letters and 86 photocopies of typescripts), documents, 24 photographs, and a scrapbook related to the life and business activities of Cyrus K. Holliday. There are materials related to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company and its business matters, the development of the city of Topeka, and politics in Kansas.
mssHolliday
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The collection consists of letters (52 original manuscript letters and 86 photocopies of typescripts), documents, 24 photographs, and a scrapbook related to the life and business activities of Cyrus K. Holliday. There are materials related to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company and its business matters, the development of the city of Topeka, and politics in Kansas.
mssHolliday
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Items in this collection primarily relate to the Panama Canal, dating from 1900 to 1915. There are nine letters from the following senders: William McKinley's secretary, George B. Courtelyou; chief engineer of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals; Admiral George Dewey; President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 April 24 (facsimile, HM 76524); William H. Taft as Secretary of War, 1908 June 2 and June 6 (facsimiles, HM 76525 and HM 76526); Reverend J. F. Carson of Brooklyn, New York; and Will Rogers. In addition, there are a few items about horse showing including a photograph of a horse and two awards won by Balfe's horse "Maximum" in 1915, given by the National Horse Show Association of America. The ephemera includes Balfe's 1914 passport, a newspaper clipping, and a document appointing Tom Wentz Balfe to Captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service in 1918. A number of items in this collection are facsimiles.
mssHM 76518-76526