Manuscripts

Statement regarding payment for passing the Mortgage Tax Bill

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Description: This statement, which is signed "B & W," apparently a law firm, describes a series of events related to the passing of the Mortgage Tax Bill in Sacramento. David Colton, noted as "the agent of the Banks," wished to retain B & W to avoid paying back taxes while the Bill was pending in the state Senate. Once the Bill was struck down in the Assembly, Colton requested the firm's help once again. There is no indication of what party the statement is intended for.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1875.
Call number: mssHM 47945
Creator: B & W (Law firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from Rare Books Department, 1980, December 1.

John W. Barrett bill of sale for ship Walter Scott

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a bill of sale for one half of the ship Walter Scott, sold to George B. Upton by John W. Barrett. The ship is registered at the port of Nantucket, and Cromwell Bunker it its current shipmaster. Printed form, filled in and signed by hand.

mssHM 4159

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Tax list of the Salt Lake City Tax Assessors Office

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a tax list created by the assistant assessor's office of Salt Lake City, Utah. It records the names of individuals and companies, their location, the nature of their occupation or business, and the amount of tax. Such individuals and companies included are James Willard Cummings (1819-1883), William Samuel Godbe, Godbe & Mitchell, George Goddard (1815-1899), W. H. (William Henry) Hooper (b. 1813), Hosea Stout (1810-1889), Samuel Pierce Hoyt (1807-1889), William Henry Kimball, A. Milton Musser, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Sharp, T. B. H. (Thomas B. H.) Stenhouse, and Edward Stevenson (1820-1897).

mssHM 66418

Easter, 1916 [typescript manuscript]

Manuscripts

The manuscript is the first typed copy of the poem Easter, 1916 by W. B. Yeats. It has handwritten corrections by Yeats.

mssHM 43250

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Memorandum regarding California Bi-Centennial and Centennial

Manuscripts

This memorandum by Frederick W. Cropp talks about the Bible being brought to California shortly after gold was discovered. He talks about Reverend Frederick Buel, the American Bible Society and the role of God and religion in California becoming part of the United States. With the memorandum is a facsimile copy of Cropp's article "Old Fine Gold in California," which he quotes in his memorandum.

mssHM 75106

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Los Angeles, California, 1894

Rare Books

B. W. Pierce notes lower left, "Finding it impossible to properly illustrate the whole city as seen from one direction, I found it necessary to make the view in two sections. The UPPER VIEW shows the city as seen from the Electric Power House, corner of Wilder St. and Central Ave. looking north. This section shows the business portion and is the main view. The LOWER VIEW shows all that part of the city not shown in the main view." Vignettes: Prominent buildings. "Printed by L. A. Litho. Co. Copyrighted by B. W. Pierce 1894." "Drawn & Lithographed by B. W. Pierce, Stimson Block." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes.

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The Jayhawkers of '49

Visual Materials

A collection of 1 group portrait and 28 individual portraits of members of the "Jayhawkers of '49", a party of 36 gold hunters who crossed Death Valley to reach California in 1849. Most of the photographs are formal studio portraits taken in the 1880s and 1890s. The group portrait, by J. H. Grabill depicts John B. Colton, Col. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), Robert Haslam ("Pony Bob"), dime-novel author Prentiss Ingraham, and Col. Alex Majors. There is one portrait photograph of Christopher "Kit" Carson and one of famed western mountain man and trapper, Jim Bridger. The earliest photograph is a copy of an 1849 daguerreotype of Alex S. Palmer.

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