Manuscripts

Ephemera and volumes

Description: The box contains uncataloged bills and receipts, printed ephemera, letterbook with index (1861-1885), index to the scrapbook which originally held the papers in this collection.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861-1885
Call number: mssDO
Creator: Dowell, B. F(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Fred Lockley, March 1924.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Benjamin Franklin Dowell papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 277 items which contains correspondence, a letterbook, documents, and manuscripts. The material is related to Oregon politics and government, transportation, including some material on pack trains, mail routes and railroads; there is also material on the Indian Wars including the Rogue River Indian War.

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Correspondence and documents

Manuscripts

The box contains material written from New York, Washington D.C., Indiana, Oregon, and California.

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Correspondence and documents

Manuscripts

The box contains material written from Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington D.C., Oregon, Massachusetts, Illinois, California, and Wisconsin.

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Correspondence and documents

Manuscripts

The box contains material written from Washington D.C., Oregon, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona Territory, Illinois, and Indiana.

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Solon Huntington volumes

Manuscripts

Includes: account book of names of drovers and amount of bills, 1843-1850, and index volume of names, probably for letterbook, 1874 January 30.

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Manuscripts, Newspaper clippings, and Ephemera

Manuscripts

The bulk of the collection centers on Scherer's work with the Council of National Defense during the First World War. There are two and half boxes of documents which had been previously collected in two large volumes. The original arrangement (by date) has been retained for both collections (labeled "Bulletins" and "General Letters," respectively) in cataloged form. The "General Letters" collection is the most extensive; it comprises the entirety of Box 2 and the first half of Box 3. In some cases - due to the similarity of their subject material - two or more consecutive listings in the index have been cataloged together in one folder. There are two smaller collections labeled "Noteworthy Activities Undertaken by State Councils" and "I.C.A. Circulars." These two smaller document collections have their own folders in Box 3. All four contain an index - those for the two still-bound collections list the bulletins in the reverse order of their appearance. The two large volumes have been cataloged in the order listed in their indexes.

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Ephemera and volumes

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