Manuscripts
Photograph of Michael Fitzpatrick on the deck of the Talamanca
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Michael W. Fitzpatrick collection
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 1 scrapbook, 1 framed photograph, and 1 service record book from the Marine Service Bureau. The binding on the scrapbook is loose with some materials detached from the pages. The scrapbook contains photographs concerning Fitzpatrick's service in Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua, as well as friends and family. Also included are several types of correspondence, marriage nuptials, and other ephemera. To note is a Tropical Radio-United Press piece titled "Cressy's History of California" (based on a tourist pamphlet by Will M. Cressy) as well as photographs of the 1931 Managua, Nicaragua earthquake. The framed photograph features Fitzpatrick on the deck of the ship Talamanca, along with other crewmembers. The service record book contains descriptive information about Fitzpatrick and his time as a seaman. Enclosed within the book are 90 Certificates of Discharge dating between 1927 and 1936, and a December 1945 letter from Fitzpatrick's cousin Honora discussing the latest news out of Ireland. Also included is a Seaman's Protection Certificate as well and other ephemera.The materials concern individuals or places associated with Fitzpatrick and his career. Among the primary subjects represented in the collection are Fitzpatrick's service in Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua. The collection also includes information regarding Fitzpatrick's time as a student at Drury College, club memberships, and his family.
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Scrapbook
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 1 scrapbook, 1 framed photograph, and 1 service record book from the Marine Service Bureau. The binding on the scrapbook is loose with some materials detached from the pages. The scrapbook contains photographs concerning Fitzpatrick's service in Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua, as well as friends and family. Also included are several types of correspondence, marriage nuptials, and other ephemera. To note is a Tropical Radio-United Press piece titled "Cressy's History of California" (based on a tourist pamphlet by Will M. Cressy) as well as photographs of the 1931 Managua, Nicaragua earthquake. The framed photograph features Fitzpatrick on the deck of the ship Talamanca, along with other crewmembers. The service record book contains descriptive information about Fitzpatrick and his time as a seaman. Enclosed within the book are 90 Certificates of Discharge dating between 1927 and 1936, and a December 1945 letter from Fitzpatrick's cousin Honora discussing the latest news out of Ireland. Also included is a Seaman's Protection Certificate as well and other ephemera. The materials concern individuals or places associated with Fitzpatrick and his career. Among the primary subjects represented in the collection are Fitzpatrick's service in Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua. The collection also includes information regarding Fitzpatrick's time as a student at Drury College, club memberships, and his family.
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Marine Service Bureau Record
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 1 scrapbook, 1 framed photograph, and 1 service record book from the Marine Service Bureau. The binding on the scrapbook is loose with some materials detached from the pages. The scrapbook contains photographs concerning Fitzpatrick's service in Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua, as well as friends and family. Also included are several types of correspondence, marriage nuptials, and other ephemera. To note is a Tropical Radio-United Press piece titled "Cressy's History of California" (based on a tourist pamphlet by Will M. Cressy) as well as photographs of the 1931 Managua, Nicaragua earthquake. The framed photograph features Fitzpatrick on the deck of the ship Talamanca, along with other crewmembers. The service record book contains descriptive information about Fitzpatrick and his time as a seaman. Enclosed within the book are 90 Certificates of Discharge dating between 1927 and 1936, and a December 1945 letter from Fitzpatrick's cousin Honora discussing the latest news out of Ireland. Also included is a Seaman's Protection Certificate as well and other ephemera. The materials concern individuals or places associated with Fitzpatrick and his career. Among the primary subjects represented in the collection are Fitzpatrick's service in Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua. The collection also includes information regarding Fitzpatrick's time as a student at Drury College, club memberships, and his family.
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Manitoba school question collection
Manuscripts
This collection deals with the legal case resulting from the Manitoba School Case, 1894; Sir Charles Fitzpatrick carried the appeal to the Privy Council. The case centered on whether or not each Canadian province should maintain the cost of separate Catholic schools. The collection includes Fitzpatrick's personal correspondence, printed reports, memorandum, copies of legislative bills, and pamphlets (HM 82894 (2-11)); there is also a separate large volume of clippings, bills, House of Commons Debates, etc. (1536 pages, HM 82894 (1)).
mssHM 82894 (1-11)
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Michael A. Healy papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains papers of United Revenue Cutter ship captain Michael A. Healy (1839-1904) and his family, consisting of 39 pieces of correspondence, 4 diaries, a letterbook from the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service ship, "Bear," (1885-1887), two large scrapbooks, and an illuminated manuscript testimonial to Capt. Healy in a leather pouch. Three of the diaries (1884, 1890, and 1891) are by Healy's wife, Mary Jane Roach Healy, kept while aboard the "Corwin" (1883-1884) and the "Bear" (1890 and 1891) (mssHM 47578-mssHM 47580), and the fourth is by his son, Fred A. Healy (written aboard the "Corwin" in 1883) (mssHM 47577). The scrapbooks (mssHM 47616-47617) kept by Mary Jane Healy contain clippings related to Capt. Healy's time in Alaska as well as general articles about Alaska, its population, whaling, the missionary Sheldon Jackson, and reindeer. mssHM 47617 contains a rare copy of the first issue of the Eskimo bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, March, 1893, and a watercolor drawing of an Alaskan house by Bessie E. (Bugbee) Tarpley, dated June 27, 1891.
mssHM 47577-47618
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[The "Bear" crew on deck]
Visual Materials
The 282 photographic prints in this collection document voyages of the United States Revenue Cutters "Bear," "Corwin," and "Richard Rush" to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict the boats, Captain Michael A. Healy, Frank A. Healy (Healy's son), the crewmen of the afore-mentioned revenue cutters; Alaskan natives and their homes; and various views of the Alaskan wilderness and towns. The collection provides insight into the people and events the "Bear" and "Corwin" encountered on their voyages while under the command of Healy. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; whaling ships; ice fields in the Arctic Ocean; J.B. Vincent, a survivor of the shipwrecked "Napoleon"; Francis "Frank" Fuller, murderer of Archbishop Charles John Seghers; Alaskan native umiaks and various artifacts; and reindeer stations. Photographers who contributed to this collection include H.W. Bradley, Edward DeGroff, Lt. C.D. Kennedy of the USRC Maine, Geoff Knight, William H. Rulofson, and I.W. Taber. See also photCL 97 for related photographs concerning the "Corwin". The photographs were originally part of the Huntington's Manuscripts collection for Papers of Michael A. Healy, 1881-1900, call number mssHM 47577-47618.
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