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George C. Friese notebooks

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Description: This group consists of four distinct items: two notebooks, containing Friese's anecdotal reminiscences of hunting, camping, and other adventures in California from 1900 to 1970 (as well as several hunting records and newspaper clippings); a photocopy of a four-page manuscript by Friese entitled "My Acquaintance With the Chinese in the Early Days," which records Friese's recollections of the Chinese in Los Angeles during his boyhood and adolescence; and a photocopy of a letter (to the reporter Earl Gustkey) and poem by Les Jacobs, dedicated to Friese after the publication of the L.A. Times profile. The notebooks, which are bound, measure 18 cm by 11 cm and 20 cm by 13 cm, respectively, and include 97 and 79 pages of writing.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: after 1904.
Call number: mssHM 69645-69648
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George Hannum notebook

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The manuscript is titled: A Compendious System of Practical Surveying taken from the latest Author by George Hannum, Philomath, and Taught by John Day, Preceptor. This fragile volume consists of approximately 54 pages of written text and diagrams. This is an advance work of surveying showing how to undertake the solution of complex problems. The manuscript opens with geometrical problems and moves on to right angle and oblique trigonometry. The text then shifts to finding areas of various shapes using logarithms. Also recorded are various methods of mapping and how to draw maps, ad methods of completing surveys for the division of land. It is in this section that Hannum applies colors to the illustrations of some of the surveys. There are two complete surveys and they are segregated in the text by being placed, inverted, on the last blank pages of the manuscript. From Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania.

mssHM 83602

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George C. (George Congdon) Gorham letter to William Worth Belknap

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Letter sent by George C. Gorham to William Worth Belknap from San Francisco. Gorham writes of a "personal and...very small but very important matter." He writes that "a hundred votes ones way or another" may decide a 3rd District Congressional race between "an ardent Grant Republican and an original secessionist." He asks Belknap to telegraph the "Engineer officer in charge here" and ask him to appoint John Gannon as foreman of laborers on the Lime Point fortification in the San Francisco harbor. Gorham adds that Gannon only wants the position for a short time, and "does not want to retain it after the election." Gorham implores Belknap that such a telegraph would "ensure a Congressman."

mssHM 29235

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Nelson C. Burch notebook

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Notebook containing references to national affairs and comments about Missouri politics by Nelson C. Burch. Included, newspaper clippings and a telegram.

mssHM 79901

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Thomas Doane engineering notebooks

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Four illustrated and textual notebooks kept by civil engineer Thomas Doane from 1875 to 1888. The volumes include construction cost estimates for roadbed construction of the Hoosac Tunnel, along with engineering information and schematics for a variety of projects, primarily centered in Massachusetts. Two of the notebooks specifically concern work on the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Eastern Railroad in the early 1880s, as well as residential surveys in the Boston area. The notebooks also contain detailed information on Boston streetcar routes, including precise measurements.

mssHM 83837-83840

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George C. Pardee letter to Lewis Francis Byington

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Letter is a response to numerous letters sent by Byington, the former was District Attorney of San Francisco, who asked that Docia Nolan, a woman convicted of robbery be pardoned since one Henry Milton made a confession exonerating her and Michael Dolan for any participation of the crime. Governor Pardee requests Byington's opinion on the guilt of Docia Nolan and further requests that he send a resume of the evidence upon which she was convicted. Letter is signed in manuscript on Executive Department, State of California, Sacramento letterhead. Enclosed with the letter is a 2 page typewritten copy of Henry Milton's confession.

mssHM 29254

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Alonzo C. Jackson letters to Alonzo C. Paige and Harriet Paige

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A pair of autograph letters from Alonzo C. Jackson, a midshipman onboard the USS Shark, to his uncle, New York politician Alonzo C. Paige and to his aunt, Harriet Paige, written from Callao, Peru and describing his life in the navy, his hopes for the future, and his adventures on a hunting trip on a remote island near the equator.

mssHM 83168-83169

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