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Fishkill Landing Machine Company ledgers
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Kern County Land Company ledgers
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HM 80953 (a): Balance Sheet ledger, 1897-1899; HM 80953 (b): The Californian vol. XXX no. 22, 1895. 4 copies; HM 80953 (c): General Trial Balance, No. 2, Kern Co. Land Co. and Kern Co. Canal & Water Co., 1900-1902; HM 80953 (d): J.B. Haggin, K.I. Water Rate Ledger. Water supplied various persons through different canals by J.B.H. Stock, 1890; HM 80953 (e): Kern River Mills Cash, 1881-1882; HM 80953 (f): Kern River Mills Journal, 1881-1882; HM 80953 (g): Ledger, 1857-1878; HM 80953 (h): Pump Station Accounts, 1900-1902; HM 80953 (i): Quarterly Inventory of Farming Implements, Machinery, Office, House & Camp Eq.'p.'g, Livestock, Lumber, etc., Belonging to the Kern County Land Co., 1895-1897; and HM 80953 (j): Water Co. Cash Book, 1894. In addition to these ledgers, there were some miscellaneous items that accompanied the volumes and are housed in one box; they include: California. Supreme Court. Eila, Countess Festetics de Tolna, Plaintiff and Respondent, vs. Rodolph, Count Festetics de Tolna, Defendant and Appellant, Transcript on Appeal (1901), two copies of The Cost of Making a Settler's Home, In the Famous Kern Delta [1894], two copies of Settler's Experience in Kern County California (1894), a printed map of Peru (1912), Location, Resources, Attractions and Development of The Kern Delta ... Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), prospectuses for Kern Valley, California and Moraga Rancho. Lastly, there are approximately 45 Luz Electrica de Jalapa stock certificates (in Spanish) (1893).
mssHM 80953
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Colonel Hugh Hughes letterbook
Manuscripts
The manuscript is an exceedingly interesting collection of historical letters addrsesed to and written by Colonel Hugh Hughes, Commanding General at West Point and Quarter Master General of the State of New York. They are all copies of the originals, the greater part being copied by Henry Peckwell, clerk. Most of the letters are requests for supplies for the Continental army, over which Colonel Hughes had supervision, written from Fishkill and Fishkill Landing, New York.
mssHM 1649
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San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company minutes
Manuscripts
The volumes begin with the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws for the San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company. Following are the meeting minutes of the company from 1888 to 1893. The first volume (HM 73896) covers 1887 to March 1890. The second volume (HM 73897) covers March 1890 to 1893. There is an issue of the "Orange Trade Reporter," Vol. 3, No. 18 (1897, April 28) in the second volume.
mssHM 73896-73897
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Letters patent for carding machine
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Copy of the Royal Letters Patent for the carding machine invented by Richard Arkwright, copied (it seems) by John Kipling (who states the original remains in the Chapel of Rolls). The function of the machine is to make "Weft" or yarn from cotton and/or wool. The patent states that Arkwright submitted his Request to King George III and it was approved: Only Arkwright and his associates would be able to control the output and selling of the machine within Great Britain for a fourteen-year period. The approval of the Royal Letters Patent is dated July the third, 1769. One condition included in the patent is: if a handwritten description and account of the machine, its parts, and its function is not submitted to "his said Majesty High court of Chancery" within four months of the approval date (July 3), then Arkwright's claim on the machine is void. What follows is a description of the machine, with parts of it described and listed with letters A-W, which correspond to the drawing on what appears to be thick vellum on the last page of the document. All three pages have an impressed seal in the mid-upper-right corner. Possible marginalia on the 3rd page: "Anguish" on the left margin.. Parchment and vellum, black ink, pages tied together at the top with a bit of reddish string. All handwritten/hand-drawn.
mssHM 80401
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San Isidro Ranch Company ledger
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Register of activities of the San Isidro Ranch Company in Baja, Mexico. Each act recorded in the ledger bears a notarial stamp and seems to be copies prepared for the company.
mssHM 84073
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Ledgers -- [Ledger No. 1]
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Administrative Series contains records relating to various facilitative operations within the Alamitos Land Company, including, but not limit to, account books, annual reports, appraisals, articles of incorporation, audits, balance sheets, bylaws, correspondence, financial records, financial statements, inventories, ledgers, legal documents, minutes, stock certificates, and titles (property rights). This series is organized alphabetically. A small number of oversize administrative records are stored under the Oversize Series. Commercial Properties Series include a wide-ranging type of records relating to the company's commercial and industrial portfolio. As per the original order, records are grouped under the headings of their respective commercial properties or projects, which include, but not limit to, Alamitos Beach Townsites, Alamitos Tract, Bixby Center, Bixby Ridge, Brawley Beef Packing Plant, Brawley Steam Wells, Firebaugh, Geothermal, Hathaway Apartments, Hathaway Business Park, The Knolls, Long Beach Tidelands, Luckey Ranch, Palo Verde and Spring Retail, Paramount Business Park, Recreation Park, Reservoir Hill, Rosemead Flair Business Park, Signal Hill East Unit, Tract 10548, U.S. Navy Depot, and the Willows Office Building. All commercial properties and projects were located within the State of California. This series is organized alphabetically.
mssAlamitos