Manuscripts

Jacob B. Loose account book

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Description: Contains an account book for Jacob B. Loose as well as loose notes, medicinal recipes, and receipts.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1838-1871.
Call number: mssHM 32127
Creator: Loose, Jacob B(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of March 1972.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Frank B. Browning account book

Manuscripts

Financial account book for Frank B. Browning's citrus orchard from 1907 to 1912.

mssHM 84226

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John Green's medical practice account book

Manuscripts

This collection contains medical and pharmaceutical documents from Thomas Green and his son John Green as well as accounts with a weaver and cobbler. The medical and pharmaceutical documents include a 1753-1754 manuscript from Thomas Green likely used to help train his son and other physicians. This document contains original pharmaceutical recipes and procedures for ailments from gunpowder wounds to cancers, many of which incorporated Indigenous peoples practice's of using local and native plants for medicinal purposes. The medical case histories cover various patients, including women, as well as information about an epidemic that broke out in the spring of 1754. The medical account book from John Green covers the last year of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) while military troops were stationed in Worchester, Massachusetts. Additionally, there are bills, receipts, and invoices for the estate of John Green that document purchasing medical supplies, blacksmithing services, a gravestone, books, and stationary. Also included is an unsigned polemic draft which discusses the campaign to regulate interstate commerce and a biographical sketch written twenty-eight years after John Green's death.

mssTJG

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Florance Hay account book

Manuscripts

Account book for Florence Hay of Belleville, New Jersey. There are several loose receipts, and lists throughout the volume.

mssHM 84309

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Commonplace book : manuscript

Manuscripts

A manuscript commonplace book, with text written in several different hands. The volume is written mostly in English but also contains French and German; though no country of origin is identified, it appears to be mainly British in subject. The text includes seven pages of index in the beginning of the volume; there are also rough drawings in pencil and pen, as well more finely executed pen and ink illustrations. The text covers an extraordinary range of subjects, including technical inventions and developments, animal husbandry, recipes, political comment, sports, current events, travel, medicinal cures, economics, wine, and many other topics. The volume is bound in late 18th century three-quarter calf gilt, red edges, with some wear to the binding.

mssHM 83388

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John Green's account with a weaver

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mssTJG

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John Green's account with a cobbler

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mssTJG

Jacob B. Loose account book

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