Manuscripts

Notebooks on official trips for the Western Waxed Paper Company

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Description: Two notebooks kept by Edward H. Nunn of the Western Waxed Paper Company, a division of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation, based in Camas, Washington. Nunn kept the notebooks while traveling on business throughout California and also in Oregon and Texas. They include notes on the design, production techniques (with sketches), and potential uses of various types of wax paper (particularly those used to wrap bread loaves).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1936-1938.
Call number: mssHM 74784-74785
Creator: Nunn, Edward H(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Elliott Mittler, July 21, 2009.

Paper samples

Visual Materials

Materials include paper samples that measure 20 x 16 in. or smaller. A majority of the paper samples are made with unmixed linen, possibly sourced from J. Batchelor & Son of Little Chart, Kent, and include watermarks of a fish (perch). Two paper samples are also included with a watermark of a chalice, crown, and half-moon.

priBerger

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John A. Dron field notebooks

Manuscripts

Thirteen civil engineering field notebooks for projects in and around Ojai, and Ventura County, California, kept by civil engineer John A. Dron. Projects include: topographical surveys of property, tunnels, roads, parks, sewers, and water pipelines. Accompanying the notebooks is a detailed list of the notebooks' contents.

mssHM 83497 (1-16)

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Invoices and accounts of Brandt Schuyler and his estate

Manuscripts

Invoices and accounts of Brandt Schyler's business and estate. Schyler's main consigners were Isaac (1721-1784) and Nicolas (1713 - 1786) Gouverneur. The invoices list shipments of flour, nails, bread, gun powder, cocoa, cloth, thread, butter, candles, wax, and other goods to mostly to Curacao and Jamaica but also Philadelphia, and London. A 1744 entry lists "Scipio a Negro man belonging to George Gordon of Philadelphia," including "cash paid the Marshall for committing him to ye work House."

mssHM 637

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Thomas Doane engineering notebooks

Manuscripts

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

Orderly book, 1761

Manuscripts

The orderly book was kept by John Grant of Archibald McNeil's company in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment. Kept between June 20 and October 17, 1761, this orderly book pertains to the British occupation of Crown Point, N.Y. Also contains miscellaneous accounts, verses, and memoranda to 1801.

mssHM 595

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[A sheet of unused Stamp Act of 1765 stamped paper, and a blue stamp]

Rare Books

One sheet of paper with perpendicular chain-lines and water-mark "IV" in the center which has one penny stamp on upper left-hand corner. The stamp has "One Penny sheet" enclosed in a circle surmounted by a crown and the letter "J" to the left of the crown, and the letter "T" outside and below the circle. To the right of the stamp is an embossed stamp reading "America ... II shillings, VI pence". Also includes a stamp embossed on blue paper, cut from an old parchment document, to which it is pasted. The three stamps are examples of those issued by the British Parliament in order to levy taxes on the Colonies in America under the Stamp Act of 1765.

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Notebooks on official trips for the Western Waxed Paper Company

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[A sheet of unused Stamp Act of 1765 stamped paper, and a blue stamp]