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Thomas Tinnion letter to William Mawson
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Thomas Milliken letter to William Todd
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Letter from Thomas Milliken in San Francisco to William Todd in Cherryfield, Maine. Milliken writes shortly after his initial arrival in San Francisco and records his first impressions of the city. He notes the high cost of laborers, the possibility of selling his steamboat for $35,000, and his plans to "break up the company" and become a blacksmith. He concludes that while San Francisco holds many opportunities for profit, "if I could make a fortune here in one year I hardly know that I would stay in such a Sodom as this."
mssHM 75049
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Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, letter to William Davies :
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Jefferson discusses a letter received from Baron von Steuben regarding new recruits and requests assistance from Colonel Davies to provide articles for them.
mssHM 25045
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Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner
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Three letters written by Herbert McLean to Bern Dibner. In one letter, dated 1954, November 24, Evans proposes that Dibner print a catalogue of 289 works that Evans and his colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley Institute of Experimental Biology have deemed "the chief works or classics in the history of science." In a letter dated 1955, June 18, Evans mentions a shipment of Burndy Library duplicates. An undated letter is a social invitation to Dibner. Also included is a photograph of Bern Dibner and Herbert Evans, taken at Evans's home and dated November, 1952; the photograph includes a handwritten caption by Evans on verso dated 1952, November 16.
mssHM 82735-82738
The Hinkley and Williams Works, Boston
Visual Materials
Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, a tender labeled "Hinkley," a plate on the cylinder labeled "925," and a label between the driving wheels reading "Hinkley & Williams Works."; decorative border around oval-shaped image.
priJLC_TRAN_001066
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Pocket diary of Thomas D. Evans
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Complete diary for the year 1864. The daily entries describe Evans' duties filing provision returns, drawing rations, supplies, and ammunitions, etc., gives accounts of camp life, the wounded and fallen in battles, Confederate prisoners, deserters, and guerillas, military operations, news (including a note about Santiago fire of Dec. 1863), and the recruitment in Pittsburgh, and follows Franz Siegel and David Hunter in Shenandoah Valley in the spring and summer of 1864. The accounts of the hospitals are rather sketchy, on the account of his wounded arm; Evans did mention a Christmas dinner and concert organized by Sanitary and Christian Commissions.
mssHM 68427
The Hinkley and Williams Works 552 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Visual Materials
Image of an eye-level side view of a steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, green-colored tender, decoration between the driving wheels that reads "Hinkley and Williams Works. Boston Mass. / 780" and the label "H. & W.W." on the cylinder.
priJLC_TRAN_001082