Manuscripts
Volumes 4-5
You might also be interested in
Image not available
Volumes 1-3
Manuscripts
Five account ledgers kept by Samuel Hipple, recording the civilians employed at the Union military installations at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The ledgers contain accounts of formerly enslaved persons known as contrabands, Irish and German immigrants, refugees, destitute soldiers' families, civilian scouts, and Secret Service agents. The ledgers also contain accounting-related information including matters of logistics, supply chains, and transportation. Volumes 2 and 5 contain lists of civilians employed at Fort Girardeau's headquarters, stables, hospital, bakery, store, and trading posts in various positions, including clerks, agents, bakers, cooks, nurses, carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, wagon masters, teamsters, laborers, and contractors. Volume 3 was used to record incoming communications received by Hipple, and includes requests for transportation for troops, provisions for troops, prisoners of war and their guards, and others. Also listed are women and children and other families, refugees, and destitute soldiers' widows. The ledger also included records of purchases of supplies for wagon trains and lists of horses received by Hipple from July 25 to September 22, 1864.
mssHipple
Image not available
Samuel Hipple quartermaster account ledgers
Manuscripts
Five account ledgers kept by Samuel Hipple, recording the civilians employed at the Union military installations at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The ledgers contain accounts of formerly enslaved persons known as contrabands, Irish and German immigrants, refugees, destitute soldiers' families, civilian scouts, and Secret Service agents. The ledgers also contain accounting-related information including matters of logistics, supply chains, and transportation. Volumes 2 and 5 contain lists of civilians employed at Fort Girardeau's headquarters, stables, hospital, bakery, store, and trading posts in various positions, including clerks, agents, bakers, cooks, nurses, carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, wagon masters, teamsters, laborers, and contractors. Volume 3 was used to record incoming communications received by Hipple, and includes requests for transportation for troops, provisions for troops, prisoners of war and their guards, and others. Also listed are women and children and other families, refugees, and destitute soldiers' widows. The ledger also included records of purchases of supplies for wagon trains and lists of horses received by Hipple from July 25 to September 22, 1864.
mssHipple
Image not available
Cost Reports, Steam Stations, Redondo, Plant 2, Unit 5, Volume 4
Manuscripts
The Southern California Edison Records consist of materials created, maintained, and collected by the company. The Southern California Edison Records contain books, catalogs, correspondence, journals, ledgers, log books, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, reports, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the history of the Southern California Edison (SCE) Company. The records cover the years 1848 to 1989 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1911 to 1965. The material is largely textual with the exception of a few non-paper items scattered throughout.
mssSCE
Image not available
Collected Works Volume II: In the Midst of Life
Manuscripts
This book was first published in 1891 under the title "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians."
mssHM 10453
Image not available
Volumes 4-5
Visual Materials
This collection contains thirteen scrapbooks chiefly containing narratives, snapshots, and clippings documenting summer canyoneering, camping, and tourism trips to the American Southwest, the Colorado River, the Canadian Rockies, and Wyoming by Mildred E. Baker in the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as volumes related to Baker's activities and interest in bookbinding, poetry, and the Woodcraft League of America in Upstate New York with bookbinder John F. Grabau in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Most of these volumes reflect the participation of two Baker's friends from Buffalo: Florence A. Huck and Katherine Crisp, who frequently traveled with Baker and were also involved in bookbinding activities. Baker's scrapbooks follow a general pattern: they include typescript narratives describing her trips illustrated with her own snapshots and handwritten captions, as well as clippings from magazines and newspapers, occasional bits of poetry, and printed ephemera. Most of the travel volumes include lists of identified flowers, shrubs, trees, ferns, and birds seen on the trip, reflecting Baker's interests in botany and ornithology. Many of the volumes also have additional printed items laid in, with some dating through the early 1970s. All of the volumes are bound in decorative bindings stamped "Grabau," and most have marbled paper over the pasteboards.Volumes 1-2 and 4-5 reflect Baker's experiences chiefly at Sunset Hill, the summer home and artist's retreat of bookbinder John F. Grabau, near Buffalo, New York, presumably as part of the "Ojenta tribe" of the Woodcraft League of America. These volumes include poetry and photographs of the landscape, camping and other outdoor outings and group events, and bookbinding, including images of binding specimens by both Grabau and Baker; volume 5 includes poems by Baker, William P. Alexander and others. Many of the volumes document Baker's trips to the American Southwest, including her experience as one of the first women to raft the full-length of the Colorado River as part of the 1940 "Nevills Expedition" led by Norman D. Nevills. Her scrapbook of this trip (volume 11) includes photographs of Nevills and his wife, Doris Nevills, and fellow participants including mining engineer John S. Southworth of Glendale, California, botanist Hugh C. Cutler of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and future Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Regular themes among the photographs include depictions of the natural landscape including rock formations, mountains, rivers, and lakes; Native Americans; trading posts; cliff dwellings; petroglyphs; lodgings; and means of transportation including by train, automobile, airplane, horse, and burro.
photCL 237
Image not available
[Cook], Sophia. 4 letters (1941-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Blockley, England
Manuscripts
She sends thanks for the cheque for a fund called "Los Angeles Fund for Bombed-out Civilians."
mssAdams