Manuscripts
Poetry, obituaries, photograph
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan (three autograph letters signed), Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley.
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan (three autograph letters signed), Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley.
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Marvin H. Bovee correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley. The three autograph letters signed from James Buchanan to Marvin H. Bovee are dated 1864 October 18 (BV 9), 1867 December 9 (BV 10), and 1868 February 10 (BV 11).
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The great exhibition of 1860
Visual Materials
Image of a political cartoon satirizing the antislavery orientation of the Republican platform during the presidential election of 1860; abolitionist editor Horace Greeley (left) grinds his New York "Tribune" organ as candidate Abraham Lincoln (center, riding on a wooden rail) prances to the organ music while tethered with a cord to Greeley's index finger with his lips padlocked shut; William H. Seward stands in the background wearing a skirt and holding a wailing black infant; at right stand two other New York editors friendly to the Republican cause: Henry J. Raymond of the "New York Times" holding an ax, and James Watson Webb of the New York "Courier and Enquirer" holding out a tambourine.
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Randall H. Hewitt manuscripts
Manuscripts
The collection consists chiefly of articles, speeches, and manuscripts written by Randall H. Hewitt. These manuscripts cover a variety of subjects including: the Salton Sea and water supply in California; the Colorado desert; the postal service; railway mail service; the Western Union Telegraph Company; railroads, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway and the Southern Pacific Company; William Mulholland, Sir William Willcocks, Colonel George W. Goethals and the Los Angeles Aqueduct; the Panama Canal; the city of Los Angeles; the Rio Grande and floods in El Paso, and Juarez and Nogales, Mexico. Most of the speeches were given before the Los Angeles Pioneer Society. There is also one scrapbook with copies of articles by Hewitt and others and a typed copy of a letter by Jonas Winchester to Horace Greeley regarding newspapers in California, gold mining and San Francisco. There are also two newspaper clippings.
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Photograph Albums
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Photograph collection of prints and albums detailing the missionary work of William H. Weinland (1861-1930), a Moravian missionary, as well as his family and associates. Images include sites in Alaska among the Eskimo and southern California at the Morongo Reservation. Other images are from Arizona, possibly Montana, and the Great Plains. Photographs in Alaska are by Canadian missionary and Weinland associate Henry Hartmann, William H. Weinland, and commercial photographer M. Lorenz. Many of the southern California images are by William Weinland. Includes a cyanotype of native American school children in southern California and contact prints of Banning, Calif. and the surrounding area.
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