Manuscripts
Rocky Mountain Region Hayden Survey letters received :
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U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region views
Visual Materials
A scrapbook album containing a collection of 339 stereograph halves, with accompanying printed labels, of views documenting John Wesley Powell's surveys of the Green and Colorado Rivers and other parts of the canyon regions for the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Views are divided into two main series, with "Views on the Green River" and "Views on the Colorado River" as the first, and subseries including "Glen Canon," "Marble Canon," "Cataract Canon," and "Grand Canyon"; the second series covers tributaries of the Green and Colorado Rivers with "Views on Kanab Creek"; "Views on the Rio Virgen"; "Views on the Sevier River"; "Views on Colob Plateau"; "Views in the Uinkaret mountains"; "Views on the Escalante River"; "Views on Vermillion Creek"; "Views on Ashley's Creek"; and "Views on Brush Creek". Most of the images are focused on the natural features of the terrain, but a few include members of the survey team. Credited photographers are E.O. Beaman, John K. Hillers, and J. Fennimore.
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Charles H. Hayden letters
Manuscripts
The letters are written to Hayden's brothers and discuss his experience in the mining camp of Fox Creek, California including his attempts at mining and running a butchering business. He also includes details about the bad weather and its effects on the mines in the area. One of the letters is written by friends of Hayden, who also lived in California
mssHM 63723-63727
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U. S. Geological Survey, J. W. Powell, Director Oregon Klamath Sheet
Rare Books
Before the city of Klamath Falls. Filed with later index map and sheet list. "Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer, A. H. Thompson, Geographer in Charge. Triangulation and Topogrpahy by Eugene Ricksecker. Surveyed in 1885-6 and 7. Edition of Jan 1894." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: K1 stiscker: Klamath.
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William Miller letter to Henry John Temple Palmerston
Manuscripts
In this annual letter to Lord Palmerston regarding trade returns, Miller writes that "the Transit Trade at Honolulu has increased considerably in consequence of the great demand for Goods which has been created by the discovery of the Gold Region of California." The quantity of coffee and sugar being produced is increasing, and being shipped to markets on the American west coast. He also writes of the status of colonists in the Sandwich Islands, including British, American, and French subjects. Typescript of original held by the Territorial Archives of Hawaii.
mssHM 16736
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William Lawrence Austin letters to Joseph Burn Austin
Manuscripts
Five letters written by William Lawrence Austin to his father dealing with the Leadville Colorado silver rush of 1878-1879. One of the letters contains a sketch. Some are on J. B. Grant & Co's Smelting Works letterhead. Four of the letters were written from Leadville (one from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)
mssHM 81295-81299
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Colorado argonauts of 1858-1859 : A directory of their arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, ranches; with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters relating to the settling of their lives in the Pike's Peak region
Manuscripts
This typescript, of an unpublished manuscript by Bromwell, is an alphabetical directory of prominent Argonauts of Colorado in 1858 and 1859. The manuscript includes businessmen, miners and pioneers in the Pike's Peak region of Colorado. The entries include a short biography of the individual, lands owned, positions held, affiliations with mining companies, club memberships, and other printed sources in which the person can be found. The directory also includes entries on mines and gold camps as well as important buildings such as the Apollo Theater in Denver.
mssHM 66661