Giovanni Lavagnino papers, (bulk 1880-1919)

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  Giovanni Aldini letter to "Monsieur le Chevalier Cobianchi,"

  Manuscripts

  This letter was written by Giovanni Aldini to "Monsieur Le Chevalier Cobianchi" in Paris, concerning his publications. In French and some Italian.

  mssHM 81247

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  1880-1919

  Manuscripts

  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.

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  Giovanni Amici letter to André Melly

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  Autograph letter signed (in Italian) by Giovanni Amici to Swiss-born entrepreneur, museum agent, and entomologist André Melly, discusses a microscope that Amici had built for Melly, and touches on the state of microscopy in the early nineteenth century including current prices. In the letter Amici also talks about how English physicist William Wollaston is "unwilling to believe in any observation made with the microscope" but forgives him due to Wollaston's eye and sight problems. Amici also asks Melly for the addresses of "famous botanists Dawson Turner...Robert Brown, William Roscoe, and William Ker, all members of the Linnean Society." The letter Includes a small drawing of and a small clipping about Amici.

  mssHM 72876

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  William Eve papers, (bulk 1880-1891)

  Manuscripts

  This small group of items consists of letters, sketches, photographs, a photograph album and ephemera (and are arranged in that manner, then chronologically). The majority of these items deal with Eve's railroad trip from New York to Salt Lake City and his time in Salt Lake City, Ibapah, and Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah as well as Soda Springs, Idaho. In Eve's letters, which are written to his parents, he details his trip West including a tragic collision with a wagon that killed men and horses, the scenery he passes, and his arrival in Salt Lake City. He also talks about mining, sheep herding, farming, seeing the boxer Jim Corbett fight, the Blackfeet (Siksika) Indians and life in the West. Throughout all of his letters, which he is writing to entice his family to also come to America, Eve compares America and its people to England and its people. His sketches include things he sees in the West such as several American Indians, a miner's drill, a coyote, scorpion, and a locust. One of his letters contains a small panorama drawing of Gold Hill, Utah. The collection contains several notes and sketches from Eve's time in London. There are also three letters to William Eve by his sister Elizabeth Eve; these are written from New York City in the early 20th century. The photographs are of Eve family members around the turn of the century. The photograph album contains photographs from a flood in Salt Lake City in 1926 and some pictures of the family camping. The ephemera is a 1959 issue of the Utah American Legion's publication "Utah Legionnaire."

  mssHM 70876-70888

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  John S. Arthur papers, (bulk 1880-1910)

  Manuscripts

  The collection is comprised of an autograph album of letters, clippings and photographs collected by John S. Arthur. Most of the album's letters are from booksellers and publishers, and the vast majority are addressed to Arthur. Of interest in the collection is a letter from F.G. Bain that discusses William Blake's (1757-1827) original drawings for Edward Young's (1683-1765) Night thoughts

  mssHM 31196

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  William Holland Samson papers, (bulk 1880-1910)

  Manuscripts

  A collection of 60 items from 1755 to 1915, it consists of research material and correspondence regarding early French explorations in the Lake Erie region, the early history of Western New York, Seneca Native Americans, and Jesuit missions. The collection also includes some of Samson's research notes and copies of earlier letters and papers relating to the Senecas, including a manuscript of biographical sketches of early Native American traders in Western New York and a geographical glossary of early Native American settlements. The 9 items for the period from 1755 to 1810 are later copies; all the items from 1880 onward are original manuscript material. Correspondents include John S. Clark, George Stillwell Conover, and John Stearns Minard.

  mssHM 8848-8906