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Frederick Kesler papers
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Frederick Thomas Perris letterbook
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Letterbook kept by Fred Thomas Perris while he worked as an agent for Cronyn and Perris, general merchandise of Salt Lake City. The volume references Perris' Mormon customers, including Brigham Young. It includes entries from New York, St. Louis, and North Platte, Nebraska, among other cities.
mssHM 35296
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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh correspondence
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This collection consists of 32 letters between Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and family and friends including letters from Irving Bacheller and Elwood P. Bonney. The letters from Bacheller are mainly personal with references to a screenplay. Bonney's letters include subjects on the Colorado River, John W. Powell, and the Grand Canyon. There is a manuscript by Maria Dellenbaugh McFarland titled, Graphic Account of the Emigration of the Dellenbaugh Family...1824-1827. In addition, there is an excerpt from B. [or R?] Young on the cause of death of three men from Powell's 1869 expedition.
mssHM 80532-80565
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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh correspondence
Manuscripts
This collection consists of 32 letters between Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and family and friends including letters from Irving Bacheller and Elwood P. Bonney. The letters from Bacheller are mainly personal with references to a screenplay. Bonney's letters include subjects on the Colorado River, John W. Powell, and the Grand Canyon. There is a manuscript by Maria Dellenbaugh McFarland titled, Graphic Account of the Emigration of the Dellenbaugh Family...1824-1827. In addition, there is an excerpt from B. [or R?] Young on the cause of death of three men from Powell's 1869 expedition.
mssHM 80532-80565
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William Perry Nebeker papers
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The collection consists mostly of the family correspondence of William Perry Nebeker. Much of the correspondence deals with family affairs and the acquiring of provisions, but also covers subjects related to Mormons as a whole. These subjects include politics and the United Order. Of note is a letter from William Clayton and letters regarding the divorce of Frederick Kesler and the imprisonment of George Q. Cannon for polygamy. In the collection Sarah Ivins McKean is represented as both an author and addressee and Theodore McKean as an addressee.
mssHM 63538-63606
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Frederick Jackson Turner letter to George Frederick Howe
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In this letter, written by Turner to a former student and historian George Frederick Howe, Turner is answering some questions Howe had for him regarding another fellow student of Turner's, historian and author Theodore Clark Smith, President James A. Garfield and financier Wharton Barker. Howe may have been writing an article about President Garfield. Theodore Clark Smith published a biography of President Garfield in 1924; George Frederick Howe published a biography of President Chester A. Arthur in 1934.
mssHM 75107
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Frederick Roeser papers
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The collection consists of scientific, engineering, and administrative reports; photographs from trips to Africa; and personal papers related to Frederick Roeser. The reports, from various ASARCO plants, which span the period 1911-1919, discuss technical procedures for reducing different metals, ASARCO efforts to improve the efficiency of metallurgical processes, design and construction of metallurgical plants, and wages and productivity at ASARCO plants. There are also notebooks in the collection which contain information about developments in the fields of metallurgy, metals refining, industrial design, mining engineering, mining machinery, and mining geology. A set of 76 photographs chiefly of a trip to East and South Africa, including Egypt and Mozambique, date to approximately 1897. There are a few views of a mining camp and many of indigenous peoples, posed for portraits, performing dances, and in everyday scenes in villages. Other photographs show unidentified people (possibly Roeser) at a house in Europe or the United States, and scenery of the Rhine River and Monte Carlo. There is one carte-de-visite portrait of a man, made in Stuttgart, Germany, that is inscribed to Fred Roeser (in German), and signed by [Ferd.?] Keppler. Notable items include: Reports on the metallurgy of arsenic and arsenic poisoning, 1917-1919, Box 1(1), review of inspection trip to ASARCO smelting plants in February 1916, Box 1(3), report on labor productivity at various ASARCO plants for the period 1908 to 1917, Box 1(6), reports on the design and construction of metallurgical plants between 1916 and 1919, Box 1(8), report on the wages at the Globe (Colorado) plant between 1915 and 1917, Box 1(16).
mssRoeser