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G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album

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Description: A Victorian album of seaweed and algae specimens collected and preserved by G. E. Dyke-Poore. The album contains twenty-three seaweed specimens mounted on cards and then mounted on pages bound in the album; there are also four additional specimens mounted onto loose pages laid into the back of the album. The specimens are carefully pressed onto each card and labeled with their Latin names; the specimens seem to have been gathered in Jersey, with one specimen from The Heads, Tasmania. The album is bound in contemporary pink and gilt illustrated paper covers (possibly homemade), with the remainder of green silk ties. Mounted onto the verso of the front cover is a little green card which says "Collected, Arranged, and Mounted by Miss G. E. Dyke-Poore, Jersey" and there is also a short poem inscribed by Miss Dyke-Poore at the beginning of the album.
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Production date: 1855-1885.
Call number: mssHM 84128

Album of pressed seaweed and sea moss specimens

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and sea moss specimens gathered by an unidentified female collector in England. The album consists of 80 pressed specimens of red, green, and brown seaweed and sea mosses, some of which are artfully arranged into crosses, a laurel wreath, an anchor, and the word "love." Tipped onto the first blank page is an eight-line manuscript poem adapted from "Flowers of the Sea." The album is bound in contemporary roan, with spine compartments tooled in gilt, the front cover lettered "Sea Mosses" in gilt and handmade textured endpapers printed with crescent moons in red and accented with gilt stars.

mssHM 84529

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British Seaweeds

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A Victorian volume of seaweed and algae specimens gathered by an unidentified collector from the southern coast of England. The twelve specimens are mounted on cards and then on pages bound into the volume. The specimens are carefully pressed and labeled with their Latin names and where they were found, including the Isle of Wight, Devon, and Cornwall. The volume is contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover.

mssHM 84127

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Alice Flood seaweed album

Manuscripts

A collection of sixty-eight seaweed, algae, and bryozoan samples, many of which have culinary uses; the majority of the samples are labeled with both common English names and Latin names. The majority of the samples were collected along the English coast, but two samples have a given location of "Point de Galles" in Sri Lanka. Each sample is attached to the paper with tiny stitches of thread; the leaves are loose and housed in a contemporary green cloth drop-sided box. The box also contains a poem on the recto of one folded leaf about the beauty of seaweed. The seaweed samples are extremely fragile and must be handled with care.

mssHM 84138

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Van Dyke, Walter. Letter to G. Wiley Wells. Visalia, Calif

Manuscripts

The collection primarily consists of incoming correspondence to the Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee law firm from their various clients and legal colleagues. The content of the cases represented is mainly civil, most heavily focused on divorces, estate settlements, and patents, as well as some correspondence on Mission Indian land cases, suits against railroads, water rights, and mining disputes. There are also a variety of advertisements from publishers, typewriter merchants, and other business connections, as well as a very few outgoing letters from Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee and limited personal correspondence. In addition to facts regarding specific cases, the letters provide an overview of general social issues, law fees and practices, property laws, patent laws, the status of women, child custody laws, divorce laws, and prevailing views of divorce in 1880s California. Some notable correspondents include Lucky Baldwin, theologian John Alonzo Fisher, American Bar Association co-founder Henry Hitchcock, California governor Henry Harrison Markham, US Secretary of State James Davis Porter, Coca-Cola Bottling Company founder B.F. Thomas, and Lucky Baldwin's ranch manager Hiram Unruh. The collection also includes the Superior Court Registry of Actions, Vol. 3 (1886-1888).

WVL 1336.

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Lamberson, Charles G. Letter to Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee. Tulare, Calif

Manuscripts

WVL 661.

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Ames, John G. Letter to Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee. Washington, D.C

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WVL 22.

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