Manuscripts

A trip through Europe :

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Description: The volume contains glued-in photographs with hand-written captions. Several of the photographs include Lankershim. In the volume is a clipping about Irene Herbert's claim that Lankershim wrote her a promissory note $500,000 and after his death, she sued the Lankershim family.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1892.
Call number: mssHM 31167
Creator: Lankershim, J. B(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Ray Reynolds, June 1965.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Around the world in 1911 :

Manuscripts

The volume contains glued-in photographs with hand-written captions. Several of the photographs include Lankershim and his children.

mssHM 31168

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Journal of an automobile trip through the United States and Canada

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An illustrated journal documenting an automobile trip, in a 1918 Ford, from Massachusetts to Montana and back, in the summer of 1927, made by four individuals who appear to have been members of the same family. It is entitled "Big Chief and Yma go atrailing with nineteen eighteen. Dedicated to the friends who could not go." They met numerous other motor travelers during their trip and wrote extensively about their destinations including Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Montana, and Canada. The writer includes pointed comments about landscapes, roads, communities, and social life and customs throughout the fifteen American states and Canadian provinces the travelers visited. The author or authors are unidentified, though they refer to themselves as "Big Chief," "Yma," Mother," and "Cal." They mention in detail a visit to the Menomonie Reservation, Niagara Falls, and a meeting with photographer L.A. Huffman. The author(s) make negatives comments about people speaking Russian in the Midwest. The volume contains 11 photographs and appears to be homemade.

mssHM 84081

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John S. Southworth diary of Colorado River trip

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The first volume (HM 74297) is Southworth's diary that he kept while on the river trip. The diary begins in Green River, Wyoming on June 20th and ends near Boulder City, Nevada on August 22. Southworth talks about the trip: the conditions along the river; the weather; the scenery passed; the people, ranches and animals along the route; and injuries among the group. There are also two newspaper clippings in the diary. The photograph album (HM 74298) contains over 400 black and white photographs taken on the river trip. There are several photographs of Monument Valley and two photographs of Native Americans. The photograph album also contains a newspaper clipping about Southworth and the trip.

mssHM 74297-74298

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Journey of an overland trip from Missouri to California

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This volume is Gorgas' diary of his journey from St. Joseph, Missouri to Placerville, CA, and his return trip to New York via the Panama Canal as part of the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century. Much of the early entries are concerned with weather conditions and landscape and route details. Gorgas and his party finally reach Placerville on July 26, the ninetieth day of their journey, and begin digging for gold outside Sacramento in August. On February 1, 1851, Gorgas boarded a ship, the Olive Branch, bound for New York by way of the Panama Canal, intending to return home to his much-missed family. He lands at Jamaica on April 1, and arrives at New York on April 8. Dated 1850, April 28 through 1851, April 8. Notes include price charts and signatures of people Gorgas may have met during his travels. Includes newspaper clipping with picture of Placerville, CA, circa 1850, and a four-page handwritten timeline of Gorgas' journey (not in his hand).

mssHM 651

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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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Harry Meiggs Wolter. Scrapbook of his trip to Japan as coach of the Stanford baseball team

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A collection of 448 items from 1792 to 1970, which contains letters, five letter books, documents, two account books, 11 scrapbooks, and photographs related to the life of Charles Wolter and the Wolter family. There are materials related to Wolter's land and business interests in early California including Monterey, Rancho Los Tualrcitos, Rancho El Toro, and Rancho Lupyomi. Correspondents include William Antonio Richardson, David Spence, and Edward Vischer. There is also memorabilia related to Harry Meiggs Wolter as a baseball player and coach. He went with the U.S. baseball team to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and the collection contains an album from the Olympic Games with autographs of various participants, including Jesse Owens. The collection also contains genealogical materials for the Wolter family, including many scrapbooks assembled by Irene Hogan Wolter, wife of Harry Meiggs Wolter.

mssHM 41681 (13)

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