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Lord Mayors of London autograph scrapbook
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Richard Wykham, Sulgrave near Banbury, England, letter to Sir Issac Heard, London
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Autograph letter signed. Regarding Washington family genealogy in England. With seal and seven color family crests/ coats of arms. (4 pages)
HM 74699
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Liber amicorum
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This is a manuscript album or Stamp Book "wherein Kings, Princes, the Great Turk & many noblemen and learned men in favour of [Francis Segar] have subscribed their Names, with devices & mottos, & etc..., with 58 emblazoned and engraved coats of arms." This album was in the Segar family for most of the 18th century, during which time Segar's great-grand nephew, Simon Segar, tore out several signature pages and all of its illustrations; Simon Segar did add a note of explanation about the missing pages in the beginning of the album.
mssHM 743
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Scrapbook volume
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Original scrapbook volume with empty pages, except for three pages of pressed botanical specimens. The verso of the flyleaf has the ms. ink inscription: "Louise Virenda Blandy, in remembrance of April 12. 76, with much love, from Adelheid."
mssHM 57251-57339
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Anonymous autograph diary written aboard the ship Herculean and in California
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The diary contains 122 pages, 109 of which have writing on them. Most of the entries are in blue ink but there are also some in pencil. The ship "Herculean" left Boston in November 1849 filled with gold-seekers for California, traveled around Cape Horn, and arrived in San Francisco in May 1850. The volume begins with a list of the names of the crew and passengers on board the Herculean and is filled with tales of the ocean journey and shipboard entertainment, including a description of a stop in Valparaiso, Chile. The entries between May 6 and June 18, 1850 describe the city of San Francisco and also the towns of Stockton and Benicia, discuss prices in California for labor and lumber, and contain an account of his tent being robbed
mssHM 59965
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Edward Anthony Spitzka medical school scrapbook
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This volume contains approximately 50 assorted documents, both pasted down and laid-in, plus an additional 12 pages or so of manuscript text in Spitzka's hand (including a few pieces of correspondence). The majority of the items relate to Spitzka's medical school course work at Columbia University including class descriptions and exam questions.
mssHM 83828
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Frank J. Cotter scrapbook
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A scrapbook created by Frank K. Cotter in the early part of the 20th century. The leather-bound scrapbook has a printed photo of Cotter pasted down on the title page; there is a modern autograph note, in an unknown hand, laid inside the front cover, with a few other printed items laid into the volume. The poems and short stories in the scrapbook are either printed clippings or typewritten copies, some of which were written by Cotter under his pseudonym Pat O'Cotter. The clippings and copies only fill twenty-five pages with the majority of the scrapbook containing blank and empty pages. The subjects covered are mainly World War I, Alaska, and the Klondike.
mssHM 83799