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Norfolk Commissioners of Sewers manuscript compendium

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Description: Volume contains a table of contents and transcriptions of orders of decrees by the Commissioners of Sewers pertaining to state projects for the management of fens, marshes, and waterways in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. These decrees were compiled and are copies. They range in date from approximately 1601 to approximately 1638. In the inside cover is a dead ladybug that was found in the manuscript; it is now encapsulated in mylar.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1660.
Call number: mssHM 84000
Creator: Great Britain(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Samuel Gedge Ltd., January 2021.

Representation from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

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To the Right Honorable Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: A Representation of the State of the Trade of this Kingdom.

mssHM 821

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Photographs of Norfolk, Nebraska, and the Norfolk Beet Sugar Factory

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A disbound album of 101 photographs of the town of Norfolk, Nebraska, showing residences, businesses and civic buildings, and focusing on the activities at the Norfolk Beet Sugar Factory. Several images show men and children working inside the beet sugar factory, while some show men, women, and children harvesting beets. More than two dozen photographs show the exteriors of houses in the town, some with people standing on the porches or front lawns. Two photographs show sod houses made of rough bricks and sod. In addition to street views of several city blocks and exterior views of buildings including the Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk, hotels, the high school, train depot, fire department, and commercial store fronts (with one building showing a sign for "Tillotson & Thompson Photograph Gallery"). There are also interior images of a clothing store, a dried goods store, a horse tack store, a shoe store, a jewelry story, and a butcher shop.

photCL 118

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The establishment of the Officers of the Customs: manuscript

Manuscripts

This manuscript contains the names of the Officers of the Customs established in 1702.

mssHM 78037

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Provisional articles, signed at Paris, the 30th of November, 1782, by the Commissioner of His Britannic Majesty, and the Commissioners of the United States of America. Published by authority

Manuscripts

Treaty of Paris signed September 3, 1783 between Great Britain on one side, and France, Spain, and the U.S. on the other.

mssHM 80766

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Names of members of the Convention Parliament: manuscript

Manuscripts

This is a list of the members of the Convention Parliament in 1688.

mssHM 699

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Books of signals: manuscript

Manuscripts

This book of signals contains text and illustrations.

mssHM 18938

Norfolk Commissioners of Sewers manuscript compendium

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