Farmer's journal | Collections | The Huntington

Farmer's journal | Collections | The Huntington

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Frank W. Poole farm ledgers
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Two business ledgers used by Frank W. Poole in the running of his peach orchard during the years of the Great Depression, World War II, into the early 1950s; the ledgers document the persons of farm labor in Yuba City, California, their wages and expenses. The first ledger is a monthly time book for the years 1936 to 1941, which contains the pay records for the employees of the peach orchard, who were Sikh, Chinese, Japanese, white, and Mexican. The second ledger is a journal of expenses for the years 1942 to 1955, which records household, personal, and some farm expenses.
mssHM 84120
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William P. Huston journal
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Coroner's journal for the greater New York area. Included are details regarding the cause of death, the inquest, expenses incurred, and the coroner's findings.
mssHM 74481
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L. M. Clement journal
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Clement's journal, which only includes entries from January to June, includes details regarding his work with the Central Pacific Railroad Company in Nevada and Placer counties, California. He discusses some technical aspects of railroad construction as well as other work he performs for the company such as surveying land for possible routes. At the end of the volume is a list of expenses for the same months as the journal. Also included is a typescript of the journal
mssHM 66487
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Ulysses S. Grant, Washington, D.C., letter to Nathaniel Carlin :
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Regarding the breeding and sale of horses on the Missouri farm, expenses.
mssHM 21687
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Ulysses S. Grant account book :
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Accounts kept by Ulysses S. Grant while a cadet at West Point in a printed, leather-bound cadet account ledger. Columns are for Store Keeper, Taylor, Shoe Maker, Barber, Post Master, Damages U.S., Subscriptions, Cash, and Total Amount. Most ledger entries fill the Store Keeper column and list Grant's purchases and expenses for clothing, various supplies, books, and a subscription to the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. There are remarks by Grant's instructors, for example the entry dated July 1842 "The Balance due by Cadet Grant is too great to admit of any increase." Also included is a loose note titled "Memoranda for Mr. Childe" and signed Edward C. Boynton (3 pages) and two loose notes in pencil regarding "furlough clothing" issued "to Cadet Grant when he visited his home in 1841" and his "indebtedness" being "two great to allow him anything but the strictly necessary articles for daily use." End pages contain several signatures.
mssHM 975
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Charles H. Alden journal
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Personal journal that Charles Henry Alden kept while onboard of the Delaware. The journal, intended for his wife, consists of detalied and vivid accounts of the Delaware's voyages in South America and the Mediterranean, complete with watercolor and pencil illustrations, samples of the ship's logs, index and appendix consisting of clippings of Alden's newspaper articles. The manuscript opens with Alden's letter to his wife that recaps the events between his leaving home and the Delaware's departure for South America, followed by a copy of the letter from the Delaware officers to the departing Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger (Sep. 1841), an account of the day in port at Hampton Roads, and the detailed, illustrated description of the Delaware. The journal proper begins on p. 115. The entries include accounts of the life onboard; marine wildlife, encounters with other ships; an arrest of a slaver by the British Navy, sketches of South American landscape, sights, and peoples, including slaves; descriptions of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, including Alden's take on the revolution in Brazil, the battle of Arroyo Grande, and events leading to the Guerra Grande in Uruquay; and accounts of the Mediterranean, including Portugal, Spain, Minorca, and Italy.
mssHM 46321