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Manuscripts
An early and unusually full form of a civil list for the queen's government, including fees, diets, and allowances for each office, but unfortunately not naming the incumbents.
mssHM 62475
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Manuscripts
An early form of civil list for the king's chief household officials and other servants, including the names of those who had the gift of the office.
mssHM 56912
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Rare Books
This collection consists of railroad photographs, ephemera and publications, 1829-2010, with the bulk of material from the early- to mid-20th century. The focus is chiefly locomotives and trains (steam and diesel) of major railroads and interurban electric railways of the United States and Canada. Also represented in the collection are smaller shortline and narrow-gauge railroads; other foreign railroads; streetcars (or trolleys); and burgeoning light rail and subway systems. Most of the ephemera is printed material produced by railroad companies for promotional and business purposes, such as annual reports, brochures, route maps and guides, timetables, tickets, dining menus, stationery, stock certificates, bond coupons and other items. There are also many city and state tourist guidebooks describing sights along rail routes or promoting land available for farming, mining or home-building across the United States. Also included are items produced for or by railroad employees, such as instruction and safety manuals, train orders, freight bills and in-house newsletters. Railroad industry publications, statistics and reports can be found in the American Association of Railroads files, which are part of Donald Duke's subject files on railroad-related topics. Throughout the ephemera files are newspaper and journal clippings, often from scarce small press and trade publications such as The Railway and Engineering Review, The Railroad Gazette, The Santa Fe Magazine, The Western Railroader, Railway Age and others. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest in the ephemera are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. Selected files are noted in the container list. Occupational safety and health: See railroad worker safety manuals and accident prevention literature in ephemera files. History of food and drink: See numerous dining and beverage menus throughout Railroads and Foreign Railroads ephemera files (not always noted in container list). History of graphic design and typography: See examples of early- and mid- 20th century popular styles in printed ephemera throughout collection. Photographs and negatives: The photographs depict locomotives, freight and passenger trains, logging railroads, electric interurbans and streetcars across the United States. This was primarily a publishers file of ready-for-press photographs, which are almost all 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, made approximately 1950s-1980s. The photographs were made chiefly by various amateur train photographers, including Donald Duke, but most are uncredited. There are some copy prints (photographs of other photographs), and a few original photographs from the late 19th-early 20th century. Some photographs have locations and dates written on the back, but many are unidentified other than the name of the railroad. There are a few files on Ward Kimball (1914-2002), one of the original animators for Walt Disney Studios and an avid rail enthusiast. There are some photographs, biographical materials, and a file on his personal backyard narrow-gauge steam railroad, Grizzly Flats Railroad, in San Gabriel, California.
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Manuscripts
A collection of historical cases that the Los Angeles Superior Court placed on long-term deposit at the Huntington Library in 1996. Additional material was subsequently transferred to the Huntington in 2002 and interfiled with the main collection. In 2008, the Court made a major addition to the collection by placing on long-term deposit the surviving case files and supporting materials of the Superior Court itself: Civil (1880-June 30, 1910); Probate: Second Series (1880-1892); Probate: Current Series (May 20, 1893-Sep. 25, 1900). The collection includes cases filed in the 1st and 17th District Court of California; Los Angeles County Court, Los Angeles Probate Court, Los Angeles criminal, Los Angeles Justices Court, and Superior and Probate Courts both civil and probate. In 2022, materials related to Los Angeles County Grand Jury activities were added, including reports, minutes, receipts, and accounting information. 1st/17th District Court of California: civil cases case # 1-5431, with gaps Mar. 1851-1879, also plaintiff and defendant indices registers of actions judgment books 1875-1879, judgment dockets 1876 - 1879, minute books (1860-1879), judgment books (1854-1877), and miscellaneous records. To find the case number for cases filed before February 1, 1901, one can use the plaintiff- defendant database available online through the Huntington Digital Library. This database includes only case files that are physically located at the Huntington Library. A significant number of case files have not survived and are not in the database. For the case numbers of later cases, one needs to consult the appropriate index volumes. Once one has the case number, the case can be ordered for review through the Ahmanson Reading Room. The series are open to the general public during regular Huntington business hours on the same basis as when they were kept at the Los Angeles County Archival Center, namely one case file at a time. Scholars approved for manuscript privileges according to normal Huntington screening procedures will have access to the case file. Photocopies are available at rates equal to or less than current comparable rates at the Los Angeles County Archival Center. In some cases, the fragile condition of individual items may necessitate prior conservation work and/or reproduction by photography rather than by photocopying/flat bed scanning. Some of these were removed during the inventory process and placed in a separate "Items Removed" series, itemized in the Appendix to this finding aid. In addition, several series of volumes of indices, registers, judgment books, etc., far from complete but all that survive, are also available to all. Note: Some case files may be incomplete.Note: Materials received in 2014, chiefly consisting of ledgers, are currently not available for paging due to conservation issues.
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-154v. [Brut Chronicle]. Incipit: Some tyme in the noble lande & Roialme of Surrie ther was a myghti and Worshipfull king called dioclician. Explicit: And thanne the king entered the cite and the Castell and rested him þer and sette the cite in gouernaunce and rule. English. F. W. D. Brie, ed., The Brut or the Chronicles of England. EETS os 131 and 136 (London 1906-08) 1-391 to the year 1419. HM 131 is of the expanded version discussed by Brie, Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England oder The Chronicles of England (Marburg 1905) 82-83, possibly of Group C; this text seems abbreviated, but complete unto itself; the chapters are numbered to 210 erroneously due to frequent skipping of numbers or of chapters. For extant manuscripts, see L. M. Matheson, "The Middle English Prose Brut: A Location List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions," Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 3 (1979) 254-66, including HM 131. With a first introduction ("Here begynneth Brute in englysshe the Whiche declareth and treteth of All the kinges and of all the notable actes and dedes the whyche hathe bene done in this lande sithe the furste begynnyng of this lande") and a second introduction ("The prolog of this boke declareth howe this lande was furste called Albion after the eldest doughter of king dioclician of Surrie that Was called Albine") that precede the text.
mssHM 131
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Rare Books
This collection consists of railroad photographs, ephemera and publications, 1829-2010, with the bulk of material from the early- to mid-20th century. The focus is chiefly locomotives and trains (steam and diesel) of major railroads and interurban electric railways of the United States and Canada. Also represented in the collection are smaller shortline and narrow-gauge railroads; other foreign railroads; streetcars (or trolleys); and burgeoning light rail and subway systems. Most of the ephemera is printed material produced by railroad companies for promotional and business purposes, such as annual reports, brochures, route maps and guides, timetables, tickets, dining menus, stationery, stock certificates, bond coupons and other items. There are also many city and state tourist guidebooks describing sights along rail routes or promoting land available for farming, mining or home-building across the United States. Also included are items produced for or by railroad employees, such as instruction and safety manuals, train orders, freight bills and in-house newsletters. Railroad industry publications, statistics and reports can be found in the American Association of Railroads files, which are part of Donald Duke's subject files on railroad-related topics. Throughout the ephemera files are newspaper and journal clippings, often from scarce small press and trade publications such as The Railway and Engineering Review, The Railroad Gazette, The Santa Fe Magazine, The Western Railroader, Railway Age and others. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest in the ephemera are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. Selected files are noted in the container list. Occupational safety and health: See railroad worker safety manuals and accident prevention literature in ephemera files. History of food and drink: See numerous dining and beverage menus throughout Railroads and Foreign Railroads ephemera files (not always noted in container list). History of graphic design and typography: See examples of early- and mid- 20th century popular styles in printed ephemera throughout collection. Photographs and negatives: The photographs depict locomotives, freight and passenger trains, logging railroads, electric interurbans and streetcars across the United States. This was primarily a publishers file of ready-for-press photographs, which are almost all 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, made approximately 1950s-1980s. The photographs were made chiefly by various amateur train photographers, including Donald Duke, but most are uncredited. There are some copy prints (photographs of other photographs), and a few original photographs from the late 19th-early 20th century. Some photographs have locations and dates written on the back, but many are unidentified other than the name of the railroad. There are a few files on Ward Kimball (1914-2002), one of the original animators for Walt Disney Studios and an avid rail enthusiast. There are some photographs, biographical materials, and a file on his personal backyard narrow-gauge steam railroad, Grizzly Flats Railroad, in San Gabriel, California.
mssLAACR
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