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Watson family correspondence
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Three of the letters discuss the shipwreck of the steamer Independence, February 16, 1853, off the coast of Baja California Sur. One of these letters is an 18-page letter by Mary R. Watson, a survivor of the wreck, in which she tells the story of the shipwreck, her son's drowning, and how the survivors made their way to a small island three miles from the ship. The survivors were on the island for three days before another ship saved them. One of the letters, written by Ella Watson Mizner, gives details regarding the San Francisco earthquake of 1906
mssHM 63711-63716
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California Orchard Company report to stockholders
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The California Orchard Company's report to stockholders discusses the recent growth of trees and vines, orchard plantings, the hay crop, nursery stock, the labor force, expenses and wages, rainfall and irrigation, and finances and stock subscription payments due, and includes condensed balances from the general ledger. There are six black-and-white 5 x 7-inch photographs showing apricot, pear, apple, almond and walnut trees, and lima bean vines, with captions describing plantings and yields. Report is a copy of typescript signed by Carlyle Thorpe, manager, with typed subscription amounts filled in and original photographs mounted on pages. Includes mailing envelope addressed to J.M. Quint, Los Angeles.
mssHM 84032
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Reynolds family record of births, marriages, and deaths
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A manuscript volume containing the records of the births, marriages, and deaths of the Reynolds and Wathern Loderidge family over a span of 112 years, with a gap in entries beginning in August 1923 and resuming after July 1843. The entries vary in detail and length, some simply record the birth or death, while others provide the names of family members present and the emotions felt by various family members. The small volume is in moderately good condition, with contemporary limp green calf wrappers, inscribed on the front wrapper "Family Records;" there are four pages loosely inserted into the volume.
mssHM 83788
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Rix Family Correspondence
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The collection consists almost entirely of letters sent to Sarah Rix by her family members, primarily her brother Charles and sisters Nancy, Phebe, and Eunice, as well as various nieces and nephews. Included are 61 letters sent by Charles Rix in Dunlap, Iowa, from 1870-1894. Charles describes his life in Iowa extensively, including notes on the landscape, his crops and success at farming, and his general happiness with living in the West. He describes in detail the prices of agriculture, livestock, and other living expenses over the course of the twenty years his letters cover, and notes that in general the "cost...for provision and clothing is low." Charles also writes of family members, business affairs in Connecticut (he writes to Sarah about selling their "old home" for a low price, for which he blames their in-laws the Burdicks, noting "I have not much reason to Respect [them]"), of an 1883 cyclone, of an influx of immigrants from Illinois seeking to buy land, and of his worry over his wife Sarah's many illnesses. A series of letters written by Charles' nephew George Tracy Burdick to his sister Mary Adelaide Burdick from 1901-1903 also describe life in Iowa, where George worked in La Moille at the Kimball and Burdick General Store. George writes of a great increase in land speculation in Iowa in 1901, but also notes that "the great rush has been on the Dakotas and Minnesota." An earlier letter describes his trip to Chicago in 1885. The remaining letters mainly consist of those written to Sarah Rix from her sisters and nieces in Connecticut. The majority of these cover news on family members and acquaintances, including weddings, births, deaths, marriages, and illnesses, particularly scarlet fever, pneumonia, and "deranged spells." An unsigned letter chronicles the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876). Another detailed letter by an unknown friend of Ella Burdick Burton written in 1887 relates details of religious fervor in Manchester, New Hampshire, which the friend writes is "unlike any ordinary place because there are so many Christians who have had deep religious experiences." Also included in the collection are several cartes-de-visite and other ephemera.
mssHM 76000-76184
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Rich family photographs
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Modern reproductions of 25 black and white photographs showing members of the Rich and Hunter families. Individual portraits include several of Charles Coulson Rich in middle and old age, three photographs of Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich in her 60s and 70s, and a photograph of Sarah Jane Rich Miller in her early 80s. Other portraits show Joseph C. Rich at age 19 (taken during his work on his father's mission to England in 1860), as a young attorney, at about the time he became judge of the Fifth District of Idaho, and with his wife, Ann Eliza Hunter Rich. Additional photographs depict Ann as a young girl, Joseph and Ann's three children (Edward, Susanna, and Sarah Jane), Ann's father Edward Hunter (taken in Salt Lake City in 1881), and Ann's mother Ann Standley Hunter. Also included are six family tree style pages with photographs depicting Charles Rich's wives and children, including his first wife Sarah DeArmon Pea, second wife Eliza Ann Graves (1811-1879), third wife Mary Ann Phelps (1829-1912), fourth wife Sarah Jane Peck (1825-1893), fifth wife Emeline Grover (1831-1917), and sixth wife Harriet Sargent (1832-1915).
mssHM 72988 (1-25)