Manuscripts

Family documents, mining documents and certificates

Description: Box contains family documents from Italy and the United States, mining related documents and manuscripts (mssHM 63883-63920).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1860-1929
Call number: mssHM 63883-63925
Creator: Lavagnino, Giovanni(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Linda V. Lavagnino, January 1997.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents

Manuscripts

The box contains correspondence, manuscripts, and documents (mssHM 52621-62662). Some of the letters were removed from an album and are still window-mounted on larger paper.

mssHM 52621-52662

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Correspondence and documents

Manuscripts

Box contains correspondence, business records, and legal documents (mssHM 64372-64431); written from Illinois, New York, and California.

mssHM 64312-64431

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Correspondence and documents

Manuscripts

Box contains correspondence, business records, and legal documents (mssHM 64312-64371); written from New York, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, and New Jersey.

mssHM 64312-64431

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Box 192 (1829-1900) contains correspondence, diaries and financial documents from the White and Storey families (1829-1900), especially George Storey White and his wife Jane, parents of Charles Greene's wife, Alice Gordon White Greene. They document their life in England, immigration to the United States as well as land purchases and business activities in Virginia. Also included are two volumes of a journal (1829-1831) entitled "T[homas] White's Travelling Companion through France, Switzerland, Italy," as well as a diary from 1858 "Thomas White, Engineer's Office, Calçada, Balua, Brazil," documenting Thomas White's work as a land surveyor in Brazil. Box 193 (1919-1983) contains papers from Henry Greene's family, especially correspondence to his sons, Henry Dart Greene and William Sumner Greene, as well as family photographs.

Subseries D.

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Bound volumes

Manuscripts

Box contains a Salt Lake City address book, diary of Mary Lorena Lavagnino, minutes of a meeting, account book, and stock certificate book (mssHM 63921-63925).

mssHM 63883-63925

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Giovanni Lavagnino papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 43 items from 1860 to 1929; it consists mostly of business records from the various mining companies that Giovanni Lavagnino worked for, including minutes from meetings, account books, and stock certificates. There are also several Lavagnino family documents from the time Giovanni lived in Italy, as well as his personal notes concerning mining techniques and technologies, smelting, metallurgy, and ore dressing. The collection also includes the diary of Mary Lorena Lavagnino that she kept from 1895 to 1919 while her husband was away traveling on business.

mssHM 63883-63925

Family documents, mining documents and certificates

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