Manuscripts
Puget Sound Wesleyan Institute minutes of meetings for the establishment
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Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute
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An illustrated single-fold brochure with letterpress printed text detailing information about the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute in Kents Hill, Maine. Dating from approximately 1861 to 1862, text within the brochure describes information about faculty members, tuition costs, room and board fees, location, and more. The front page features a woodcut view by engravers Taylor & Adams of the institution's new Seminary and Collegiate Building (now Sampson Hall) which was constructed in 1858.
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View of New Tacoma and Mount Rainier, : Puget Sound, Washington Territory. Terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Visual Materials
Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Tacoma, Washington, and Commencement Bay in the Puget Sound, with trees, loggers, buildings, a railroad train crossing tracks across the bay, ships in the water, and Mountain Rainier in the distance.
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Reports
Manuscripts
Contains reports "Pacific Northwest Water Resources and Their Future Development," Oct. 1936; Raymond Basin Area Conference Preliminary Draft of Geological Report, January 1940; brief form memo re: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute new members; color map of Feather River Project; Puget Sound Regional Planning Commission Publications, Sept. 1942; multiple copies of charts apparently related to Feather River Project costs; "Development of Resources and of Economic Opportunity in the Pacific Northwest, Part II: Agricultural Land Development in the Pacific Northwest," 1941.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
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Meeting minutes
Manuscripts
The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.
mssFMC
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Minutes of meeting
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.
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California Avocado Association minutes
Manuscripts
The minutes cover several meetings of the association's board of directors from 1915 to 1916. The minutes contain the by-laws of the association, the names of its board members, its purpose, and its change of name. Included with the manuscript is a photograph of Calavo Growers of California's employees picking avocados (c.1924).
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