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Carrie Belle Deal Ellis diary and receipt book
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Carrie B. Call diary
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Diary kept during a journey by covered wagon from Salt Lake City, UT, to Los Angeles, CA, by Carrie B. Call, who traveled with her husband Jimmie, her niece Katie and her infant son Leslie. The Calls left Salt Lake City on October 24, 1886 and reached Los Angeles December 5, 1886. While on their journey they passed through several cities and sites including Provo and Santa Clara, Utah; the Las Vegas Mormon Fort and Rancho, Nevada; and Ivanpah and Pomona, California. The diary gives a day-by-day story of their trip. She details the people, scenery and hardships her family encountered on their trek, such as, the family sharing a campsite with a man chasing a horse thief and getting lost in the desert and having their horses run off. Being from Salt Lake City, she makes several comments regarding the Mormon families she met along the travel route. One of the first things the Call family did in California was visit the beach at Santa Monica. Call made several comments regarding California's perfect climate. The diary is illustrated by hand-drawn and hand-colored sketches done by the author
mssHM 60317
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Receipt Book
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An autograph receipt book containing miscellaneous financial transactions from construction work to the education of his or her children in Yonkers, New York. The entries are signed by various individuals. Note, the back cover is detached.
mssHM 80240
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Ellis Reynolds Shipp poems
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Four religious poems by Ellis Reynolds Shipp, published in her poetry book Life lines (1910). Includes handwritten versions of "A Recipe for Happiness," "Lifes Lamp," and "Supplication," as well as a typed version of "Midnight Musings." Also includes two photographs of Shipp.
mssHM 72840
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Southern Pacific Railroad receipt book
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A receipt book for Southern Pacific Railroad shipping of agricultural products from California throughout the United States; the receipt book was used mainly by agent J. P. Onstott at the Yuba City and Marysville, California, stations. The book is made up of 3-part, tri-color, duplicate shipping receipts; only the first portion is completed with shipments from 1900 September to 1908 October. The volume lists shipments of raisins, grapes, and currants to San Francisco and Sacramento, California; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The receipt book also provides shipping prices during the time when the Southern Pacific Railroad dictated shipping rates because of its monopoly of railroad shipping in California. The volume has a rough weave, stained, cloth binding, with "So. Pacific R. R. Co." stamped in black on the front cover; the name "J. P. Onstott / Yuba City, Ca." is written in pencil. The spine is damaged with loss at the top and bottom, but the pages are still tightly bound; the inside front cover has the name "A. Simi / Roma winery" written in pencil.
mssHM 84118
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West coast travel diary of a woman
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A western train trip diary of a young woman as she traveled from Chicago to the west coast in 1915. On the front page it is written "For Neva from Carrie." On the cover of the leather diaries, "My Travels" is lettered in gold gilt. The author traveled from Chicago to southern California with a stopover at the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles and San Diego where she celebrated her 32nd birthday. Then it was up the coast to Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Oregon and Washington, and then it was over to Yellowstone National Park and back home to Salina, Kansas. There is a photo which accompanies the diary of a young woman in a hammock, which could be either Carrie or Neva. Also at the rear of the diary are a number of people listed with their addresses.
mssHM 83415
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Receipt book
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This leather-bound receipt book contains records of payments from the Guadalupe Mine to a variety of vendors for commodities and services from January 30, 1858 to September 8, 1860. The entries are signed by the venor who received payment and witnessed by one or two of the company officials. There are also some entries on slips of paper and 21 bill-headed invoices (most of which are from San Francisco companies) tipped in
mssHM 63655