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Handwritten, 2-page, document about public land disposed of during 1902 from 15 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, Nebrasks, and Utah. Is probably from "Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office," Washington, Government printing office, 1902. Written on "United States Senate" letterhead.
mssHM 84318
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Lyman H. Howland wrote seven of these letters to his son, Garrald, after he left New Bedford to become an itinerant miner in California, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana. The first letter is a 16-page description of his 1892 railroad journey to Sacramento. In 1894, Howland is living in Spokane, Washington and talks of mining prospects. In 1896, Howland is mining in Troy, Idaho, and in 1897, he is mining in Sylvanite, Montana. Besides mining and his life as a miner, Howland also lectures his son on the evil of alcohol, talks of sending for his son to join him, and asks about family and friends back in New Bedford. Two of these letters are incomplete.
mssHM 83122-83129
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Rare Books
Photographs and text reflecting the land, life, and people of the Great Plains of Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Utah, Oklahoma and Texas.
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A late 19th century diary documenting the personal and working life of Eleanora Opp, a German American woman living on a ranch in Orange County, California. The entries note both her work in the household and on the farm. She discusses her family's work for others in fruit harvests, noting details such as pay. She also records her social life activities including church services, parties, and a romantic interest.
mssHM 84087
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This diary was compiled by descendants of Thomas Richardson in 1838 and contains extracts of the letters, journals, and memoranda of Richardson from between 1780 and 1794. Thomas Richardson documented daily life in a prosperous Quaker household and records observations about education, religion, natural philosophy, abolitionism, and domestic medicine. There are accounts of electrical experiments and electrotherapeutic treatments conducted by the family, including a 1786 description of the Richardson family attempting to revive a recently dead woman using electric shocks. The diary also includes examples of children's writing, education, and intellectual life in late eighteenth-century England. The volume is written in a single copyist's hand and is bound in contemporary marbled paper over boards.
mssHM 84540
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This journal or diary, kept at irregular intervals over nearly forty years (fullest for the 1720s), gradually morphs into a letterbook recording copies of Thomlinson's correspondence. Early entries discuss with some frankness his family and prospects, his own and his family's business and legal mattters, daily life and gossip, books and rading (including The Tatler), politics and current events, sermons, occasional medicinal rcipes and cures, and accounts of his corresepondence.
mssHM 70982