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Cuneiform tablet :

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Description: Babylonian rectangular, plano convex, clay tablet dated "the year when Bur-sin destroyed the city of Urbillum." It records amounts of grain and flour delivered to the house of a city governor. With a note about the item.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 2230 B.C.
Call number: mssHM 84334
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1970s.
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Cuneiform tablet :

Manuscripts

Babylonian rectangular, plano convex, clay tablet dated to the reign of King Amar-Suen. It records a receipt for a cow. With a note about the item.

mssHM 84358

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Cuneiform tablet; inventory of grain

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This is an inventory of grain brought probably to the palace or temple. The first two lines give a brief ledger-like statement of this fact; also the date, what is probably April, at the 25th day, but the year is illegible. All the remaining lines contain the names of persons who bought the grain, each is checked at the beginning with a little sign. The cuneiform is probably from about 1200 B.C.; though there is a possibility that it is considerably later.

mssHM 82934

Erasable (School) Drawing and Writing Tablet, No. 2

Visual Materials

One drawing book entitled Erasable (School) Drawing and Writing Tablet, No. 2, printed by American Tablet Manuf. Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 1871, "patented October 24, 1865, and August 7, 1866." The front cover of the "tablet" shows a young lady sitting in a chair drawing on a sheet of paper. The tablet contains six pages of heavy paper board. The first four pages consist of two sets of printed images and blank areas. The last two pages of the tablet feature penmanship examples and blank areas below. "General Instructions" are on the back cover of the tablet. The student was supposed to "[d]raw in the blank spaces with a soft lead pencil, and erase with a damp woolen cloth." However, the majority of the printed images have been traced over rather than copied. In the upper-right hand corner of the second page is an indecipherable penciled note.

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Drawing Tablet

Visual Materials

One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Tablet, artist unnamed, manufactured by the Pennsylvania School Supply Co., Philadelphia, ca. 1890? The drawing book is 14 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings of geometric shapes, patterns and designs, some of which are labeled. The front and back covers are illustrated with a woodcut scene of a seated woman painting in her studio. Below the image is the series phrase "Student's Series - No. 2221." Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves.

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The evolution of Pico Heights

Manuscripts

Text of a speech delivered by Rufus H. Frost at the opening of the Pico Heights branch of the Public Library on March 28, 1903. Includes references to the Pico Street electric railway, building fires, the establishment of the Pico Street Improvement Club, and annexation to the city.

mssHM 74617

Imperial egg food

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Imperial egg food for poultry; Imperial egg food is delivered by train and given to chicken at top right, who lay copious amounts of eggs that are gathered and packed into egg crates by African American workers; well-dressed African American man with a cane and top hat gestures to the results of the egg food at left accompanied by advertising text; chicken pictured with large basket of eggs and pyramid of eggs at bottom left.

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