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Certificate regarding Steamboat Experiment

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Description: This certificate certifies that the Steamboat Experiment, owned by Charles Bush and George Lobdell, has had a "thorough examination of the Hull of said Boat" and that it is "sea-worthy, and fit to be used in the Transportation of Freight and passengers." It also certifies that the boat is between three and four years old and was built in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1845. It is signed by Thomas Young and Jacob Alrichs at Wilmington, Delaware.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1849, April 3.
Call number: mssHM 75991
Creator: Bush, Charles(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu certificate for Andre Jean Henri Lucas

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This document certifies that Andre Jean Henri Lucas has completed a course in mineralogy at the Le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. It is dated 11 Frimaire de l'an 6 and signed by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. In French.

mssHM 81246

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San Francisco Committee of Vigilance Membership Certificate of Wellington R. Tolles

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This document certifies that Wellington R. Tolles is a member of "the Committee of Vigilance of the City of San Francisco and is a Member of the Washington Guard."

mssHM 83172

Thomas T. Eckert, New York, certification

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Typescript document signed. Eckert certifies to the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln electoral votes estimate, 1864 October 13 (mssHM 2032). Volume contains copies of engravings and photographs and portions of "Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War," by David Homer Bates. Also present is a facsimile of mssHM 2032.

mssLincoln

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Thomas T. Eckert, New York, certification

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Typescript document signed. Eckert certifies to the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln electoral votes estimate, 1864 October 13 (HM 2032). Volume contains copies of engravings and photographs and portions of a published history relating to Lincoln, Eckert, the election of 1864, and the War Department; also present is a facsimile of HM 2032. (1 page)

HM 2033

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William Henry Seward letter to Ogden Hoffman

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In this letter to Judge Hoffman, Seward writes of a pending civil case in California involving the consul of the kingdom of Hanover, a man named Otto Frank: "The present is not a fit time to entertain unnecessary and speculative questions of privilege in regard to either diplomatic or consular representatives of foreign Powers." However, he points out that "there can be no fit time for abating the necessary national authority, when its exercise is absolutely necessary." Seward then gives Hoffman advice on how to proceed, based on the pending actions of Otto Frank.

mssHM 19015

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Lobdell, Robert

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2 items: two 69-pp. transcripts of interview with Robert Lobdell, Los Angeles Times General Counsel, (by Marshall Berges). Yellow copy is the "clean," unmarked copy. Notable names and subjects include: the discussion is wide-ranging ; significant segments have not been transcribed, especially on pp. 1 - 5 ;. parts of discussion (around pp. 6 - 7+ 10 - 11) are on Oliver Sippel and involve homosexuality and gay rights ; Lobdell provides examples of material that should be included or deleted in stories for Los Angeles Times ; defining "legitimate public interest" (pp. 20 - 21) ; Wilbur Mills adventure with stripper Fanne Foxe (pp. 22 - 24) ; Lobdell states that "if there is any connection between (a politician's job performance) and their private habits," it should be reported on (pp. 26) ; more examples, more explanations.

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Certificate regarding Steamboat Experiment

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