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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Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory
Rare Books
"This Atlas is composed of two series of maps: the first, of four sheets, on a scale of twelve miles to one inch, each covering the whole State of Colorado; the second, of twelve sheets (six topographical and six geological, of identical areas,) on a scale of four miles to one inch, each sheet embracing two and one-half degrees of Longitude and one and one-quarter degrees of Latitude, the whole presenting the results of the field work of 1873, '74, '75, and '76, covering the entire State of Colorado and adjacent portions of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. ... The work of Primary Triangulation was carried on by J. T. Gardner, from 1873 to the Autumn of 1875, and was completed by A. D. Wilson. The preparation of the colored sheets and the general supervision of their publication was entrusted to W. H. Holmes"--From leaf [2], signed F. V. Hayden.
610904
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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.
150208
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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