Manuscripts

Reservoir Colliery Overseal District

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Description: Manuscript map which depicts the Resevoir Colliery in the Overseal District. The map indicates Colliery operations and old workings in 1889 and depicts neighboring properties that belonged to Mrs. Woodhouse, Lord Donington and Major Mowbray. The map also indicates the location of barriers against the Donisthorpe Colliery workings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1889 October 2.
Call number: mssHM 84036
Creator: Smallwood, R(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 2021.
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Dixon Green Colliery account book

Manuscripts

Account book recording payments relating to colliery expenditures between January 1779 and January 1782. The book records payments for wages, access by land and water canals to the mines, repairing old channels and cutting new ones, etc. There are numerous names recorded of the various workmen.

mssHM 84076

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James Woodhouse: article

Manuscripts

This article, written by Wilson and about the poet James Woodhouse, was published in "The Blackcountryman" in 1979. Accompanying the article are four illustrations done by Wilson for the article.

mssHM 77965

Map of the Burnt District

Rare Books

Image is a detailed map showing from California Str. to Broadway (left to right) and Mason Str. to Sansom [sic] (top to bottom). The map indicates the location of buildings that were saved from the fire. Baird notes that this sheet probably went, originally, with "View of the Conflagration...June 22nd." Or it may be part of a different edition of "View of the Conflagration...June 22nd." Paper color: gray.

48052:073

Map of Molino Cañon showing location of pipelines, reservoirs, etc. / surveyed by Fred Eaton

Manuscripts

Depicts the dams, pipelines, reservoirs, and fences surrounding the property. Color. One of three hand-drawn survey maps representing a San Marino, California property as purchased and developed by Edward L. Mayberry (1834-1902) between 1880 and 1900. One of the two maps used as evidence in an 1895 lawsuit over water rights between Mayberry and the Alhambra Addition Water Company. The other map used in the lawsuit is mssHM 83404c, dated 1894. The three maps document the remnants of the Molino Canyon mission water system, agricultural activity in San Marino before 20th-century residential subdividing, and evidence of the area before Henry Huntington purchased a large portion of it.

mssHM 83404b

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Orville Wright letters

Manuscripts

First letter: signed letter by Orville Wright to Italian-born US aviation enthusiast and magazine publisher Henry Woodhouse (1915, July 22 - on The Wright Company letterhead, Dayton) regarding visiting Woodhouse in New York that next week. HM 79892

mssHM 79892-79893

Plan of the Burnt District, Sacramento, Showing the Buildings which escaped

Rare Books

Image is of a map from the levee to 7th St. (left to right) and from I St. to L St. (top to bottom). The Sacramento River is labeled at the far left, and Sutter Lake is labeled at the top. The blacked out portion of the map indicates where the fire occurred. Baird notes that this map is said to refer to the fire of July 13th, 1854. "Published by barber & Baker."--text, below image. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, upper right corner of image. Paper color: gray.

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Reservoir Colliery Overseal District

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