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Report of Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior

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Description: This is a photocopy of a report by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company Commissioners on the 5th Section of their railroad line, which covered Indio to the Colorado River (Indian Wells). The report is dated 1877 December 6 and addressed to Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior. After the report is a letter by Carl Schurz to President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878 January 19, and the endorsement of Hayes, 1878 January 30.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1877-1878.
Call number: mssHM 84066
Creator: Southern Pacific Railroad Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Lynn Farrar, June 1988.

Secretary's Report

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15+ items: letters, meeting minutes, article copies and other material related to creation of the "Secretary's Report" for the Pulitzer Prizes during 1985. David Laventhol's (Publisher of Newsday, later LAT) name appears on several letters as he was a member of Pulitzer committees in the time frame. Included is a copy of a multipage essay by Leonard Levy on the experience of winning a Pulitzer Prize.

mssLAT

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Secretary's Report

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1 item: 39-pp. Secretary's Report ("Report of the Secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board, 1983 - 1984") contains letters, lists and other information related to the Board for 1983 - 1984.

mssLAT

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Western Pacific News Service press releases

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HM 83623 (a): The press release released on June 22, 1946, announces James W. Grace's retirement. Grace was the industrial commissioner of the Western Pacific Railroad Company for 23 years.

mssHM 83623

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Reports on plague in Los Angeles

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This report was compiled by the California State Board of Health on order of Los Angeles Mayor George E. Cryer. It reports on cases of plague in Los Angeles from November 1924 to June 1925. It contains details on individual cases including autopsies, reports from Los Angeles hospitals about cases of plague, animal trapping and poisoning information, medical inspections, and eradication and disinfection efforts. The report also contains several illustrations, black and white photographs and maps. The report includes a table of contents, a preliminary report on bubonic cases, an appendix on rodent plague, Lenert's Report on Harbor District, a Final Report and a copy of Ordinance No. 50,282, "providing sanitary regulations for the protection of public health in the City of Los Angeles." There are copies of letters by Mayor Cryer and the California State Board of Health Secretary and Executive Officer, Dr. Walter M. Dickie. The volume was a gift from Dr. Allen F. Gillihan to the Los Angeles County Medical Association in January 1926.

mssHM 72874

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Annual Report of the Secretary of War for 1906 extract, Washington, D.C. :

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Extract of report regarding the need to improve defense of Puget Sound.

mssHM 41541

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San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike journal of incidents

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Journal documenting incidents which occurred in San Francisco during the 1894 railroad strike.

mssHM 55579

Report of Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior

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