Manuscripts

Accounts of Hollister Ranch

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Description: This manuscript lists expenditures at the Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California, from November 18, 1890 to August 31, 1891. It includes data such as salaries for hired workers, prices for farm animals and supplies, and insurance. Each entry also has a voucher number and dollar amount for each item. Typescript with some handwritten notes and corrections.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1890-1891.
Call number: mssHM 26203
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Dexter Monroe, January 1961.
Dimensions: 32 cm :
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Warren Hollister papers

Manuscripts

Primarily letters from Warren Hollister, Co. E 36th Regiment O.V.U.S.A. to Elizabeth Hollister, 1861-1862; also present is a memorandum book and journal, 1861-1862, and ephemera.

mssHM 36406-36434

Dolores V. Trejo journal, 1949-approximately 1961

Manuscripts

Dolores Trejo's entries in this notebook cover the years 1949 to 1954, 1958, and 1960 to 1961. The notebook contains the following: list of insurance payments to John Hancock and Blue Cross; list of expenses for repairs on the house Trejo owned and payments from tenants; personal notes on problems with house, including legal problems; notes on employers Trejo worked with, including both difficulties and benefits of work, and salaries; entry relating to Trejo's letter of 1953 to the San Diego Union that favorably describes her crossing the border in 1935; and evidence of her Christian faith. In one of her last entries, Trejo expresses her wish to return to Mexico. There is also one loose sheet which contains a poem.

mssHM 83444

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John Lamb account book

Manuscripts

Primarily expenditures for obtaining recruits for the Continental Army, possibly kept in New York State.

mssHM 977

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Accounts of Her Majesty's Mint

Manuscripts

Account delivered by Sir Isaac Newton, master and worker of Her Majesty's mint, delivered and attested on March 7, 1712. Includes sums he paid for salaries to himself and other workers, expenses of the mint, and sums of new monies created from 1710 to 1711. Probably not in Newton's hand but signed by him.

mssHM 80292

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Thomas Wood account books

Manuscripts

The account books record personal expenditure and the finances for Wood's estate from 1696 to 1736. It details payments to servants and agricultural laborers, gardeners, saddlers, carpenters, the keeper of the hunting house, a butler, housemaid, coopers and expenditures on horses and livestock. Personal expenditures include: money given to his wife and children, chartable gifts, school fees, clothing, medical and physician's fees, food, wine, and the purchase of miscellaneous household items such as candles and soap. The volumes also contain medicinal remedies by Wood.

mssHM 81035-81036

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History of Title Insurance Company

Manuscripts

This Title Insurance and Trust Company volume contains a chronology of important events and policy decisions covering the 1940s and 1950s. Subjects that appear in this volume are: a) the date and amount per share of the declaration of each dividend, b) the dates and amounts of all changes in prices, c) the date of basic changes in company structure brought by acquisition of other companies, mergers, etc., d) date of stock split, e) date and nature of profit sharing installation, f) a record of bonuses paid each year, g) the general price range of Title Insurance stock at all dates where major changes occurred or at year end if no major changes occurred immediately, and h) trend of the general real estate business in Los Angeles. At the back of the volume, there are more miscellaneous charts and graphs pertaining to the Title Insurance and Trust Company, including business potential, schedule of division, and statistical data.

mssHM 80810

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