Manuscripts

Adelina Patti autograph book

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Description: Autograph book of Adelina Patti when she was in San Francisco in March 1887. On cover: "Souvenir to The Great Diva Adelina Patti From her Friends and Admirers, San Francisco, Cal." With a biographical note on Adelina Patti.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1887 March.
Call number: mssHM 40700
Creator: Patti, Adelina (1843-1919)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from D. Magee, August 1959.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Adelina Patti letters

Manuscripts

The volume includes 10 autograph letters written to various family members; the volume is a brown morocco folio with gold lettering on front cover.

mssHM 20378-20387

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Adelina Patti letter to unidentified addressee

Manuscripts

The letter is addressed to: My dear friend and was written from Craig-y-Nos Castle, South Wales; it was originally mounted in a volume and was removed by Huntington Library staff in September 1938.

mssHM 13258

Adelina Patti

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of opera singer Adelina Patti in formal dress decorated with flowers and wearing a feathered hat with stuffed birds on it.

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Diary of Patty Bartlett Sessions [microform] : 1846-1866

Manuscripts

Microfilm of a typescript of Patty Bartlett Sessions' diaries, beginning while she was living in Nauvoo in 1846 and ending in Utah in 1866. It covers her overland travels from Illinois, her time in Winter Quarters, and her arrival in Utah. Most of the diary consists of entries on daily activities and events in Utah, and refers throughout to Sessions' work as a midwife.

MSS MFilm 00631 item 01

Wreck of the steamship Tennessee, at San Francisco, Cal

Visual Materials

"264 Illustrated News [April 23, 1853"--across top of the page. "15--"--on frame mat. The image is of the first Tennessee operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; built in 1849, she was purchased in October, 1849, from the Savannah Steam Navigation Company; from 1850 to 1853, she operated between San Francisco and Panama; she was wrecked on 6 March 1853, at Bolinas Bay, four miles north of the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Focus of item: Tennessee.

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Steamer Tennessee

Visual Materials

Port view under steam at sea, headlands and fortifications in the background, to the left. The image is of the first Tennessee operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; built in 1849, she was purchased in October, 1849, from the Savannah Steam Navigation Company; from 1850 to 1853, she operated between San Francisco and Panama; she was wrecked on 6 March 1853, at Bolinas Bay, four miles north of the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Focus of item: Tennessee.

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