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Carl E. McStay scrapbooks
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Frank J. Cotter scrapbook
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A scrapbook created by Frank K. Cotter in the early part of the 20th century. The leather-bound scrapbook has a printed photo of Cotter pasted down on the title page; there is a modern autograph note, in an unknown hand, laid inside the front cover, with a few other printed items laid into the volume. The poems and short stories in the scrapbook are either printed clippings or typewritten copies, some of which were written by Cotter under his pseudonym Pat O'Cotter. The clippings and copies only fill twenty-five pages with the majority of the scrapbook containing blank and empty pages. The subjects covered are mainly World War I, Alaska, and the Klondike.
mssHM 83799
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George Cochrane Hazelton scrapbook
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The scrapbook contains items collected by George C. Hazelton throughout his visit to California in 1879. Included in the scrapbook are: calling cards, labels from wine and champagne bottles, trade cards, menus from dinners, tickets, letters giving him privileges at various clubs, and invitations to events such as the reception for Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco after his world tour, and a dinner reception for the journalist John Russell Young.
mssHM 66795
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Richard Walton Tully scrapbook of correspondence
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This extremely fragile scrapbook contains correspondence from stage managers, actors, playwrights, writers, producers, and agents in response to plays sent out by Richard Walton Tully. The majority of the letters are contained in the original envelopes. There are also 25 loose letters, envelopes, and telegrams that are housed in separate sleeves.
mssHM 80466
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Letter and manuscript of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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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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George T. Peabody scrapbook reports
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HM 83937-83938: Two-volume report, "Angeles Forest Trails," compiled by Division of Hiking, Nature Study and Conservation / Public Recreation - Works Project Administration (W.P.A.) Project SA - 2290 / Sponsored by Los Angeles County Department of Recreation Camps and Playgrounds, dated 1936. The scrapbooks consist of carbon-copy typescripts, illustrated with original photographs, maps, newspaper and magazine clippings, almost all of which are pasted into the volumes, although a few newspaper clippings and an occasional photograph have been laid-in and dates from 1936-1938. The volumes include information provided by various committee members about the geology, birds, flora, fauna of the San Gabriel Range. HM 83937 includes various recreational resources as far east as the Mojave Desert, while HM 83938 details local recreation areas on the North Fork of the San Gabriel River. The basic information about the Angeles National Forest in each volume appears identical.
mssHM 83937-83939
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Janet Lewis letters to Hallett Smith
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Two autograph letters written by Janet Lewis to Hallett Smith, a Huntington Library Senior Researcher. The first letter (January 12, HM 83570), confirms a date for Lewis to read her poems at the Library; the second letter (February 12, HM 83571), thanks Smith for a tour of the Library and presents a copy of her book of poems: The Ancient Ones. Both letters were originally laid into this book when it was presented to the Library.
mssHM 83570-83571