Manuscripts
Winfield Davis papers
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Winfield S. Odle materials
Manuscripts
Collection of patent applications, professional correspondence, and city improvement suggestions related to Los Angeles-area metal worker Winfield Scott Odle. Includes patent applications for improvements to a portable extension ladder, with illustrated descriptions (1889), and for a casement-window operating device, also with an illustrated description (1914); letters from the Barrington Trading Company in Sydney, Australia, regarding product distribution (1917); letter of recommendation for Odle from the Standard Door and Sash Co. (1914); a license agreement between Odle and the United States Metal Products Company (1915); and letters of suggestion for improvement to streetcar design and city streets near Hollenbeck Park.
mssHM 73786-73796
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Lauren Winfield Aldrich papers
Manuscripts
The group includes a handwritten draft and a typed transcript of Aldrich's manuscript entitled "Brief reminiscences of the soldiers life on the plains and in the mountains during the early days of 1867-8-9 to 70." This memoir discusses Aldrich's experiences serving as an army scout in Nebraska and Wyoming at forts along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad construction. Aldrich was assigned to Fort Laramie, Fort Russell, Fort Fetterman, and Fort Kearny. He describes his regiment's skirmishes with the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux Indians, as well as their dealings with the Pawnee scouts. Aldrich also talks about a treaty with Chief Red Cloud, his relationship with Major Frank J. North and Captain Luther H. North, and an expedition into the Yellowstone River Valley. Also included are several pieces of correspondence, certificates, and discharge papers related to Aldrich's military career and his duties for the National Indian War Veterans
mssHM 65812-65821
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Photographs of Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott and others
Visual Materials
Photographic portraits of the following individuals: Studio portrait of Jefferson Davis, seated (1880s); General Winfield Scott (1860?); engraving made from a photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady (1864); James Thomas Fields carte-de-visite; John Ericcson; E. J. Davison(?); stereograph of S. C. Willey (and family?) in front of residence, Campton Village, New Hampshire; "The Lecture Platform" - a composite of 45 portraits, identified on verso, published by the American Literary Bureau, agency for lecturers, readers and singers; and two people in front of the R. A. Brock home(?), Richmond, Virginia.
photPF 2150-2159
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Millard Fillmore, Washington, D.C., letter to Sarah J. Buell Hale, Philadelphia :
Manuscripts
Regarding Hale's campaign for a national day of thanksgiving. Fillmore expresses the opinion that Congress would not find it an appropriate subject for legislation and that he does not think it should be an executive action but should be left to state governors.
mssHM 20515
Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott
Visual Materials
Image of a three-quarter length portrait of American Civil War Union Lieutenant General Winfield Scott sitting in a chair in military uniform holding a map and his hat.
priJLC_MIL_000891
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Jefferson Davis papers
Manuscripts
Includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and Confederate currency. Items are bound together with portraits of Davis.
mssHM 20996-21003