Manuscripts
G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album
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British Seaweeds
Manuscripts
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, and 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, and 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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Miss Pugsley travel album
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Miss Pugsley entitled her diary: "Stepping Westward: The Log of a Spinster's Transcontinental Trip." The album opens with Pugsley leaving Boston via train and then traveling across New York, through Niagara and Detroit, to Chicago and then across the plains of Kansas to New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington State, and back via Canada. The album is illustrated with 60 photographs and over 40 postcards (most of which are captioned and identified). Pugsley highlights various parts of her trips including: the Harvey Museum in Albuquerque, Inscription Rock, the Grand Canyon, Hopi Indians, Los Angeles, Pasadena, the San Gabriel Mission, the beaches of Santa Monica and Venice, Hollywood, the Mission Inn in Riverside, San Francisco, Yosemite, Mt. Hood, Seattle, and Victoria (British Columbia). Much of her trip was done via automobile. A modern transcription accompanies the diary.
mssHM 81399
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Lamberson, Charles G. Letter to Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee. Tulare, Calif
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of incoming correspondence to the Wells, Van Dyke, and 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, and 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 661.
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Ames, John G. Letter to Wells, Van Dyke, & Lee. Washington, D.C
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of incoming correspondence to the Wells, Van Dyke, and 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, and 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 22.