Manuscripts

Carl Wertenbruch correspondence

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Description: This collection consists of letters by Carl Wertenbruch to his wife, Elizabeth Wertenbruch during the Civil War from Illinois, Tennessee, and Alabama. Ephemera includes various documents in German and English.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1864-1866.
Call number: mssHM 80486-80501
Creator: Wertenbruch, Carl(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Laurence De Rycke, September 3, 1969.
Associated people: Wertenbruch, Elizabeth,
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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Contains family letters written from Massachusetts, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, and California. A number of these letters are photocopies. Also included is a typed summary and outline of Curtis family letters (1984).

mssHM 50671-50759

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Jonathan B. Labrant papers

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Jonathan Labrant and his wife Mary Melissa and his parents and siblings (chiefly between 1862 and 1864), miscellaneous letters addressed to the Labrants, photographs and documents. One letter is in German. Jonathan Labrant's Civil War letters cover his service in Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, including encouters with fugitive slaves, "black rebels," and Confederacy sympathizers, and discuss military actions, camp life - rations, inspections, drills, etc., recruiting in Illinois in 1863, and war news. His correspondence with other veterans of the 58th Regiment includes discussions of the history of the regiment and current political affairs. His wife's letters give updates on friends and family, local news, and describe challenges faced by a young mother running a household.

mssHM 73100-73223

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Ocean Queen ship's contract for Philip Doerr

Manuscripts

Ship contract in German and English securing passage to New York on board the Ocean Queen for Philip Doerr, his wife Katherine, son Carl (Charles), and daughter Jeannette. Printed contract, filled in and signed by agent G.H. Paulsen.

mssHM 72401

Carl Moon

Visual Materials

Family photographs, albums, clippings and other items relating to the early life and career of photographer Carl Moon (1878-1948) and his wife, Grace Moon, who wrote a series of children's books revolving around Hopi and Navajo culture in the Southwest. There are several portraits of both of them and portraits of Moon family members. A photo/clipping album contains many scenes of their early home life in Pasadena, Ca., with their two children, along with clippings about their careers. There is one view of Grace Moon at El Tovar studio in the Grand Canyon. Another album details several generations of the Moon family in photographs dating from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Ephemera includes a 1909 brochure for Hotel El Tovar at the Grand Canyon, and diaries and artwork by Carl Moon's family members.

photCL 484

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Letter and manuscript of Carl Friedrich Gauss

Manuscripts

The letter, dated 1839, Dec. 31 from Göttingen, relates to items, some of which are worth hundreds of gold pieces, that Gauss is either selling, buying, or shipping to his son Charles William Gauss who lived in St. Louis and owned a retail dry goods store. The letter is incomplete and the addressee is unknown. In German. HM 77960.

mssHM 77960-77961

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

The letters from Robert H. Williams to his parents and fiancée Elizabeth Goff contain detailed accounts of duty at Muddy Branch, Maryland; military operations at Berryville Pike, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and expeditions to Danville and Petersburg, Virginia; camp life, promotions; discussion of war politics and commanding officers, especially Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The collection also contains a letter to Robert H. Williams from his father regarding the Pike's Peak gold rush, a letter to him from Elizabeth Goff, and a letter from his brother Richard describing Tennessee at the end of the war. James M. Goff's letters to his father and younger brother Oscar in Delavan, Wisconsin describe camp life, the march from Kentucky to Tennessee, and life in Libby prison. There is also one photograph album, loose photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

mssHM 28864-28884

Carl Wertenbruch correspondence

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