Manuscripts

George E. Blakeslee notebook

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Description: George E. Blakeslee's notebook contains transcriptions of lectures on the diseases of children and the practice of midwifery. The lecturers were Doctors Eli Ives and Nathan Smith. The lectures also included surgical practices for obstetrics. The lectures are indexed, however, notes for the first lecture actually begins on page 307.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1831.
Call number: mssHM 74092
Creator: Blakeslee, George E(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 25 cm :
Associated people: Ives, Eli, (1779-1861.)

Notes of lectures by Dr. Edward Swift Dunster

Manuscripts

The notes cover lectures chiefly about obstetrics and women diseases as well as Scarlet Fever and Measles. The author of the notes is unknown but might be a relative of Lyman Brewer who himself received a medical degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1932 and was the former owner of these notes.

mssHM 74833

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George Hannum notebook

Manuscripts

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. Friese notebooks

Manuscripts

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.

mssHM 69645-69648

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George E. Pilz correspondence, (bulk 1882-1898)

Manuscripts

This small group consists of the letters George E. Pilz to James Jerome Smith, who employed Pilz to secure profitable mining claims in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. These letters contain descriptions of Pilz's work as well as descriptions of the conditions under which he lived in Juneau, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon. Additionally there is the prospectus of the Harrisburg Consolidated Mill and Mining Company of Alaska (HM 66217)

mssHM 66195-66218

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George L. Couch diary

Manuscripts

The diary of George L. Couch of Boscawen, New Hampshire, covers the years 1854 to 1856. In addition to entries depicting everyday life of a farmer, the diary includes discussion of political and social life in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and Couch's literary interests. There are entries covering political parties and meetings, including those held in conjunction with gubernatorial elections (Mr. Couch attended a "Democratic Caucus"), religious meetings, lectures, Know-Nothings, etc.

mssHM 65248

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George A. Smith letter to Gen. John E. Smith

Manuscripts

Letter from George A. Smith to Gen. John E. Smith, Assessor of Internal Revenue, with descriptions of the southern counties of the Utah Territory. Includes prose accounts of the population, crops, irrigation, geography, cost of goods, and losses from Indian attacks for Sanpete County, Juab County, Sevier County, Piute County, Millard County, Beaver County, Iron County, Washington County, and Kane County. Smith also writes of the difficulty of reporting property losses because of the lack of roads and bridges and high postage costs.

mssHM 75012

George E. Blakeslee notebook

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