Manuscripts

George W. Gift letter to Damien Marchesseault

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Description: In this letter to Damien Marchesseault, the mayor of Los Angeles at the time, George W. Gift outlines a detailed plan for the construction and integration of a new water system for the city of Los Angeles. He includes a list of proposed materials to be used, and estimated costs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1860, June 15.
Call number: mssHM 16555
Creator: Gift, George W (1833-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of R.B. Chapman, 1860, June 15.
Dimensions: 32 cm :

George W. Goethals letter to William R. Scott

Manuscripts

Typed letter signed on Isthmian Canal Commission letterhead and marked "Personal" from George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama Canal to William R. Scott, author of the soon to be published, Americans in Panama. The letter discusses the time table for the first ship to pass through the canal and what must be accomplished such as the completion of lock gates and the state of the Culebra Cut (also known as the Gaillard Cut). He estimates the approximate date for first passage as late September, 1913. Goethals goes on to run through the construction, labor and associated costs. He is still uncertain as to how far under the $375,000,000 estimate the Canal will ultimately cost as certain costs were not figured into the original estimates. The letter concludes with cost figures and estimates on excavation for the Culebra Cut. According to Goethals, the original estimate of 196,000,000 cubic yards to be removed will probably increase by 25,000,000 cubic yards.

mssHM 16528

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Reports on plague in Los Angeles

Manuscripts

This report was compiled by the California State Board of Health on order of Los Angeles Mayor George E. Cryer. It reports on cases of plague in Los Angeles from November 1924 to June 1925. It contains details on individual cases including autopsies, reports from Los Angeles hospitals about cases of plague, animal trapping and poisoning information, medical inspections, and eradication and disinfection efforts. The report also contains several illustrations, black and white photographs and maps. The report includes a table of contents, a preliminary report on bubonic cases, an appendix on rodent plague, Lenert's Report on Harbor District, a Final Report and a copy of Ordinance No. 50,282, "providing sanitary regulations for the protection of public health in the City of Los Angeles." There are copies of letters by Mayor Cryer and the California State Board of Health Secretary and Executive Officer, Dr. Walter M. Dickie. The volume was a gift from Dr. Allen F. Gillihan to the Los Angeles County Medical Association in January 1926.

mssHM 72874

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George A. Smith letter to Gen. John E. Smith

Manuscripts

Letter from George A. Smith to Gen. John E. Smith, Assessor of Internal Revenue, with descriptions of the southern counties of the Utah Territory. Includes prose accounts of the population, crops, irrigation, geography, cost of goods, and losses from Indian attacks for Sanpete County, Juab County, Sevier County, Piute County, Millard County, Beaver County, Iron County, Washington County, and Kane County. Smith also writes of the difficulty of reporting property losses because of the lack of roads and bridges and high postage costs.

mssHM 75012

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George W. Hoffman letters to Dr. Guy Phelps

Manuscripts

In these letters, written to Dr. Guy Rowland Phelps, founder of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hoffman sends insurance applications "of young adventurers to California, young men of good habits, good constitution and after their fortunes. The insurance is for the benefit of relatives and Brothers who have assisted or in whole furnished the outfit." (1849, December 21 - HM 82384). He later sends deposits for policies of Benjamin C. Griswold and William W. Ware, en route to California, "via Cincinnati to New Orleans, thence to Chagres and Panama. In returning probably by the same route..." (1850, January 18 - HM 82385).

mssHM 82384-82385

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George W. Woodward letters and poem

Manuscripts

Letters by George W. Woodward to family from 1861 to 1865. There is also a poem he wrote about his experience in the war, entitled "Something Awful." All materials are typescripts.

mssHM 49530-49538

Grand gift concert

Visual Materials

Image of a broadside printed in the Denison Daily Times Job Rooms section advertising a gift concert taking place on March 31, 1875. The event was organized by the Texas Gift Concert Association (Secretary, Alpheus R. Collins) to gather funding for public improvements in the city. Tickets of admission cost one dollar, and prizes ranged from “1 grand cash gift of $50,000” to a total of 49,789 gifts amounting to $250,000. Text on the print is listed in three columns, the central text includes information about gifts, and the side columns include references and names of former prize winners.

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George W. Gift letter to Damien Marchesseault

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