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Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert journal of Mohawk Valley trip in 1634-1635
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Nicholas Augustus Den deed of trust for benefit of minor children
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This document describes the benefits due to Den's children, put in a trust due to their status as minors at the time the document was drawn. Includes printed copy of the will of Nicholas A. Den. Signed by Den's wife, Rosa, a notary public, and two County Recorders.
mssHM 26198
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Journal of a car trip to California
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Journal of a car trip from Washington State to California with brief visits to Mexican border cities, dated September 8, 1933 to February 8, 1934, and illustrated with 163 original snapshots, commercial photographs, and postcards. Travels occur in a 1927 Chevrolet and are primarily in California; many journal entries and photographs depict visits with the travelers' friends or family. The journey begins in the Everett, Washington area and continues to Eastern Washington with stops in Soap Lake, Spokane, and Walla Walla; the travelers then continue into Oregon, visiting Pilot Rock, Ukiah, Mount Vernon, Blue Mountains Hot Springs, and Austin. Entries for Northern California include a history and description of mining in Calaveras County and images of a large maritime hangar at Sunnyvale. In the Los Angeles area, the travelers take daytrips to the San Gabriel Valley and to the South Bay, San Pedro, and Santa Ana; the bulk of L.A.-area entries describe the aftereffects of the March 1933 Long Beach earthquake, depicted with numerous commercial photographs. Other sites visited in Southern California include Riverside, Colton, San Bernardino, Redlands, Palm Springs, and the Coachella Valley, where the diarist provides brief descriptions of a Native American trading post and of date tree cultivation; also, the Salton Sea, Plaster City, Descanso, Lake Cuyamaca and dam, Julian, Santa Ysabel, Ramona, and Lakeside. In the San Diego area, places traveled to include Escondido, Encinitas, La Jolla, Point Loma, Sunset Cliffs, Coronado Island and aviation base, Balboa Park's Indian Village and zoo, Old Town San Diego, El Cajon, Warner Hot Springs, and a few Native American reservations in the Rincon and Pala area; longer entries describe fruit orchards, the history of missions and Junipero Serra, and Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, with several photographs of the Casa de Estudillo, the tourist attraction known as "Ramona's Marriage Place." The journal also includes several side trips to Mexican border cities, with brief entries for Mexicali and Tecate and lengthier descriptions of two visits to Tijuana. Journal is a bound scrapbook; entries and captions are handwritten in ink, and photographs and postcards are glued to pages.
mssHM 84035
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Moore, George A. Letter to Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee. San Francisco, Calif
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The collection primarily consists of incoming correspondence to the Wells, Van Dyke, and Lee law firm from their various clients and legal colleagues. The content of the cases represented is mainly civil, most heavily focused on divorces, estate settlements, and patents, as well as some correspondence on Mission Indian land cases, suits against railroads, water rights, and mining disputes. There are also a variety of advertisements from publishers, typewriter merchants, and other business connections, as well as a very few outgoing letters from Wells, Van Dyke, and Lee and limited personal correspondence. In addition to facts regarding specific cases, the letters provide an overview of general social issues, law fees and practices, property laws, patent laws, the status of women, child custody laws, divorce laws, and prevailing views of divorce in 1880s California. Some notable correspondents include Lucky Baldwin, theologian John Alonzo Fisher, American Bar Association co-founder Henry Hitchcock, California governor Henry Harrison Markham, US Secretary of State James Davis Porter, Coca-Cola Bottling Company founder B.F. Thomas, and Lucky Baldwin's ranch manager Hiram Unruh. The collection also includes the Superior Court Registry of Actions, Vol. 3 (1886-1888).
WVL 819.
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Martinus van Marum letter to Gaspard Monge
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In this letter, van Marum is thanking Monge for a conversation they had in Paris in 1785. After this exchange, van Marum became all the more determined to study the new Chemistry and is now sending a volume he has just published, much of which is the product of what he has learned from Monge. He then asks Monge to send feedback of the book after he reads it. With the letter is a transcription that was done by Barbara Dibner. The letter is in French and was written from Haarlem.
mssHM 81087
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Benjamin Baxter journal of a trip from New York to California
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This unsigned journal, attributed to Benjamin Baxter, describes a journey from New York to California via Panama, as well as his experiences in the California gold mines and his voyage back home. Dated March 25 through September 22, 1850. Many pages damaged.
mssHM 19823
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Journal of an automobile trip through the United States and Canada
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An illustrated journal documenting an automobile trip, in a 1918 Ford, from Massachusetts to Montana and back, in the summer of 1927, made by four individuals who appear to have been members of the same family. It is entitled "Big Chief and Yma go atrailing with nineteen eighteen. Dedicated to the friends who could not go." They met numerous other motor travelers during their trip and wrote extensively about their destinations including Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Montana, and Canada. The writer includes pointed comments about landscapes, roads, communities, and social life and customs throughout the fifteen American states and Canadian provinces the travelers visited. The author or authors are unidentified, though they refer to themselves as "Big Chief," "Yma," Mother," and "Cal." They mention in detail a visit to the Menomonie Reservation, Niagara Falls, and a meeting with photographer L.A. Huffman. The author(s) make negatives comments about people speaking Russian in the Midwest. The volume contains 11 photographs and appears to be homemade.
mssHM 84081