Manuscripts

Bruno Schmölder extracts from guide for emigrants to California

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Description: This manuscript is an English translation of certain parts of Schmölder's work titled Wegweiser für Auswanderer, written in Mainz, Germany, during the years 1848-1849. The work includes geographical details of the western areas of North America, recommendations for preparation for a journey west (including provisions and materials), wild animals that might be sighted, and advisable routes. Includes 34-page typescript of handwritten original.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1848-1849.
Call number: mssHM 2271
Creator: Schmölder, B(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In library, date unknown.

"Extracts from the Report on the Huntington Library,"

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These are likely George Cole's personal notes about the Huntington collections, comprised of lists of a variety of holdings of the library, and acquisitions made by the Huntington between 1915 and 1924. It includes Cole's notes regarding variations within different printings of various texts (for example, differences in two copies of Bacon's "Wisdom of the Ancients" both from the same year, with different typeset), as well as listings of famous first editions, incunabula, Shakespeare quartos, and historical papers in the Huntington collection; lists of holdings in other libraries; lists of items sent to galleries, exhibits, or for exchange or sale; physical descriptions and comparisons of texts; biographical histories of certain authors; and lists of things not in the Huntington's collection. Additionally, it also includes some material on bibliography, and a cataloging guide from 1920 of HEHL cataloging practice. Most of the material is undated.

HIA 30.1

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Hill Street Improvement Association Los Angeles California Assessment District of the proposed extension of Hill Street from Washington Boulevard to Santa Barbara Avenue

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A strip map showing the design for the current configuration of Hill Avenue south to Santa Barbara Avenue [now Martin Luther King Junior Avenue]. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes regarding assessments for certain lots.

249171

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Language has no weather : field notes from Unseen California

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"Unseen California is a multi-pronged arts research initiative utilizing the University of California Natural Reserve System through site specific research performed by a collaborative artist cohort, generating opportunities for field-based arts teaching and learning, public programming, and the creation of artworks. This book features the artists' explorations in progress--their field notes--across media, generated from site work and ongoing dialogues. In this context, field notes are understood as fragments toward knowing, and these are embodied, subjective observations that might speculate and certainly express wonder, but also recognize that interpretation will often happen later, elsewhere."--Publisher's website, www.shop.theretherenow.com

642345

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Medical account book

Manuscripts

This account book includes patient names and fees paid for medical treatment from 1851 to 1881. The author is unknown but might be in Ohio. There is some mention of the treatment performed and reason for visit such as: childbirth, prescriptions of medicine, treatment of wounds, and even some dental work. There are 23 pages of newspaper clippings from newspapers in Ohio (the clippings are sometimes glued over the medical information). The clippings include poems and short articles, many of which are written by Thomas C. Harbaugh, a writer from Ohio. The clippings are from 1895 to 1897. Several pages have been cut-out of the volume.

mssHM 75114

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Lundy B. Hogue diary of a trip from Ohio to California

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Hogue began his trip to California in July 1875 from Belmont, Ohio. He traveled through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada by railroad. He talks about the Missouri River, Cheyenne, Mormon villages, Fort Bridger, the Humboldt River Valley, and hundreds of Chinese workers he sees along the way. Hogue arrived in Sacramento and then he proceeded to travel to San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Ventura. While in California, Hogue purchased land. He returned to Ohio in January 1876. The volume also contains several entries from another trip Hogue took in 1882.

mssHM 82444

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The column from California

Manuscripts

Book length manuscript detailing the military campaigns of the California Column regiment in New Mexico during the Civil War. Also includes 21 illustrations in separate folder, a publication submission letter from Clarence C. Clendenen to the Editor of the University of Southern California Press, and a letter from Robert A. Clark to Doyce Nunis discussing manuscript.

mssHM 72370-72373

Bruno Schmölder extracts from guide for emigrants to California

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