Manuscripts

Carte de un amigo a otro de Sevilla sobre la epidemia

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Description: Letter from unknown doctor from Cádiz to another doctor in Seville, dated 1800 August 26, regarding the plague. Following the letter in the volume are the following: correspondence with some clerics in Seville regarding burial in churches, 1801; representation to the King from the Count of Aranda, 1788; review of the murder case of Don Francisco del Castillo, 1798; copy of a botanical article regarding the Bohan Upa tree; cultivation of the peanut plant from the Americas; and some printed material.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1788-1801.
Call number: mssHM 84290
Provenance: Purchased from W.P. Wreden, December 1960.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Sueño sobre la expedición de Sonora

Manuscripts

This manuscript appears to be a poem about the Spanish expedition of Sonora. Unknown author. In Spanish.

mssHM 4053

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Informe sobre el comercio y la situación de la California

Manuscripts

This document outlines the commercial situation and economic conditions of California during the mid-19th century, including notes pertaining to San Francisco. In Spanish.

mssHM 4088

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Carte de l'Amérique Septentrionale & Meridionale, ou se trouveur les Trois Voyages de Cook et Ceux de MacKenzie, Vancouver et La Perouse, Parry et Franklin, Dresée par Herisson, eleve de Bonne, ancien Ingénieuo hydrographe de la Marine. Revue Corrigée & Augmentée en 1829

Visual Materials

Kashnor notes, "Interesting from its representation of New Mexico and the Western Territories, where the various Indian nations are located. Shows all California and Oregon to the mouth of the Columbia as part of Mexico." Kashnor dates as [1833]. Submaps: Dominica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Martinique, St. Lucia, Tobago.. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Azimuthal. Watermark: Lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS note: 697.

105:697 M

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Carte-de-visite

Manuscripts

The correspondence of Alexander Douglas Miner consists almost entirely of letters sent by Miner addressed to his daughter, Martha Matilda Miner, a college student attending Oberlin College in Ohio. The letters sent from Miner to Martha span from 1852 to 1872. Some of the letters include a postscript from Martha's mother, Abby E. Miner.

mssHM 80846-80948

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Reports on plague in Los Angeles

Manuscripts

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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Galvez, Joseph de, Marques de la Sonora. Decreto sobre la entegra del las temporalidades de las Misiones a los Padres Ministros de ellas. Real de los Alamos, new Spain

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Following the above: 1769, May 30. Pineda, Juan de to Joseph de Galvez. Enclosed in: 1769, june 10. Galvez, Joseph de to Carlos Francisco de Croix

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