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Herman F. Dellinger day book and history of the war
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William F. Fraser commonplace book and scrapbook
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Volume includes copies of legal documents, court records, recipes, medical information, accounts and receipts, poems, and clippings.
mssHM 448
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David Fisher Day commonplace book and journal
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This notebook contains David F. Day's research on Junius. It contains lists of a variety of works about Junius, his possible identity, those who may have known him, etc., often with annotation to the left side in different ink, stating "I have it," or "To be procured." The list of works continues chronologically off and on throughout, sometimes with summaries, and annotations. The notebook also includes notes about the different people who could have been Junius including Sir Philip Francis, Benjamin Franklin, and George Grenville. There are also additional notes, clippings, several loose letters by John Edmands of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, and a cabinet photograph of David F. Day.
mssHM 84125
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Once I played God : as told to Ruth Cain : oral history
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In this reminiscence by Jack Herman (told to Ruth Cain), he remembers liberating the Gusen concentration camp (which was part of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex) in Austria. He talks about the physical conditions of the camp, the prisoners, dead bodies laying out and his duties to "clean up the mess left by the S.S." While visting with some of the survivors he came across one who stood out to him (it was the Italian painter Aldo Carpi). Herman ordered the man to be taken to his own personal quarters and to get any special care Carpi needed. Herman visited him everyday and Carpi eventually grew stronger and fully recovered. Herman and a fellow soldier named Peter, helped Carpi leave the camp and return home to Milan. Before leaving, Carpi painted a portrait of Herman, which in 1973 Herman still owned. The newspaper clippings include: an obituary for Carpi, an interview with Herman about Carpi (with a picture of Herman and his portrait), and Herman's obituary (all 1973).
mssHM 77957
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Reminiscences of old Calico
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Mellen wrote his reminiscences in 1941. In it he talks about his years that he and his father spent building chutes and bins for various mines in Calico and Daggett, California, including King, Odessa, Occidental, Gobbler, and Garfield. They also helped construct building for the mining towns. Mellen discusses the problems they encountered in mining including a flood in the winter of 1883 and lack of money. He also talks about a murder that took place and the eventual hanging of the suspected murderer, as well as the miners' reactions to and treatment of Yung Hen, a Chinese man who owned a restaurant and several boarding houses in the Calico area. Included in the typescript are photographs of the author and the mines, most of which were taken in 1941; there is one photograph of the King Mine from 1883, and one of Calico in 1890.
mssHM 66764