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Logging operations in the Pacific Northwest :

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Description: Microfilm reel of Wilfred Nevue's manuscript "Logging Operations in the Pacific Northwest, 1906-1910."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1962.
Call number: mssHM 84349
Creator: Nevue, Wilfred(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Wilfred Nevue and Allan Nevins, March 1962.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Diaries and letters of John D.T. McAllister [microform]: 1881-1963 (bulk 1881-1906). Reel 1

Manuscripts

Microfilm of the diaries of John D.T. McAllister, kept from 1881-1906. The diaries were kept while McAllister was living in St. George and primarily chronicle his Temple work, attendance of Church conferences, local news, including births, marriages, and deaths, Church events, and daily activities. Reel one contains the diaries dated 1881-1891, reel two contains the diaries dated 1892-1902, and reel three contains the diaries dated 1903-1906, as well as assorted letters and notes dated 1857-1963.

MSS MFilm 00518

Diaries and letters of John D.T. McAllister [microform]: 1881-1963 (bulk 1881-1906). Reel 2

Manuscripts

MSS MFilm 00518

Diaries and letters of John D.T. McAllister [microform]: 1881-1963 (bulk 1881-1906). Reel 3

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MSS MFilm 00518

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The history of Baker, Hamilton & Pacific Company

Manuscripts

This manuscript covers the entire history of Baker, Hamilton & Pacific Company, which began as the Baker & Hamilton Company, founded by Livingston Low Baker and Robert Muirhead Hamilton, two men who came to California in 1849 to mine for gold, but who eventually gave up mining to open a hardware store in Sacramento. Baker & Hamilton also sold farming supplies and equipment. They opened a second store in San Francisco in 1867, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. In 1918, Baker & Hamilton merged with Pacific Hardware & Steel Company to create Baker, Hamilton & Pacific Company. The author also discusses the history of agriculture in California and the agriculturist James L. L. F. Warren.

mssHM 66703

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Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest

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A series of 27 photographs of scenes along the Northern Pacific Railroad's Pend d'Oreille Division and Clark's Fork Division in Oregon, as well as scenes on the lines of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. along the Columbia River. Included are views of the workers along the line, a survey team, the camp tents holding the hospital, camp mess tents, a druggist, and a blacksmith shop. The card photographs are boudoir size, 8.25 x 5 inches, and "Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest" is printed on the verso of the mounts.Photographs: Group portrait of men, women, and a child; men with surveying equipment in group portrait; hospital tent with injured men on cots; mess hall tents with tin plates and coffee pitchers displayed; men and women in front of a druggist's tent with medicinal bottles and jars on shelves inside; "Blacksmith Shop of Construction Department, Clark's Fork Division, N.P.R.R."; "No. 26. Block House, Upper Cascades, Columbia River"; "No. 49 Multnomah Falls, Columbia River"; "No. 50 Castle Rock, Columbia River"; "No. 71 View from Block House"; "No. 73 Hallett's Hades--O.R. & N. Co."; "No. 77 Upper Cascades, Columbia River, from Espy's Painting"; "No. 83 Bird's eye view of Fort Coeur d'Alene and the lake, Idaho"; "No. 87 Clark's Fork Crossing, three miles above its mouth, N.P.R.R."; "No. 88 North Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 89 South Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 90 Big Rock Cut, one mile above Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 91 View from Cabinet Rapids down Clark's Fork, Columbia River"; "No. 92 View at lower end of Cabinet Rapids, Clark's Fork"; "No. 93 Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking upstream"; "No. 94 Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking downstream"; "No. 95 Looking out upstream from Cabinet Gorge"; "No. 96 Head of Cabinet Rapids"; "No. 97 Big Grade, N.P.R.R. at head of Cabinet Rapids"; "No. 98 Elk Creek Camp on N.P.R.R."; "No. 99 Grading on Big Bluff, three miles above Heron's Rapids, Clark's Fork"; view of a surveyor and stream.

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L. Benedict diary of a trip to California and the Pacific Northwest

Manuscripts

In the diary, Benedict describes his travels by train through the American West and Canada. He begins in Chicago, travels to San Diego, then heads north along the Pacific Coast to Victoria and Vancouver in British Columbia, and finally travels through Canada back to Ontario. Benedict talks about the different regions he passes through and the various scenic attractions, and the populations found in western cities, including Chinese districts and Mormons in Salt Lake City. He also makes comments on the large numbers of gold seekers in San Francisco, Portland, and Tacoma, waiting to depart for the Klondike gold rush. Loose in the diary are three items including notes, Benedict's business card, and a promotional booklet for Riverside, California entitled "The Greatest Orange Growing City in the World."

mssHM 84028

Logging operations in the Pacific Northwest :

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