Manuscripts
Microfilm of volumes 1, 2a
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Microfilm and transcriptions
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Typescript transcriptions of correspondence in boxes 1-2
Manuscripts
This box contains typed transcriptions of the letters in Boxes 1 and 2. Transcribed by Genne Myers Nelson in 1997.
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Clippings scrapbook with list of Jayhawkers
Manuscripts
Large scrapbook of clippings regarding the Jayhawkers, with some other printed material. At front is a typed list of names and addresses of the original party, with some information about their lives.
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Scrapbooks
Manuscripts
Scrapbooks chiefly contain newspaper clippings related to the Jayhawkers, with some correspondence and ephemera such as programs. Volume 2 chiefly contains clippings related to topics such as horses, farming, alfalfa, etc., with the stamp of the Buzzard Roost Ranche, Eddyville, Nebraska on the inside front cover. The volume numbers are based on the original numbers written on the volume spines.
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Maria Cosway correspondence and manuscripts [microfilm]
Manuscripts
Two duplicate microfilm reel copies of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Maria Cosway from Italy, including letters to Cosway from the Marquis d'Hancarville (Pierre-Francois Hugues), 1787-1791 and undated, from originals held by the Biblioteca Laudense, as well as letters from Maria Cosway to Annette Prodon (or Anna Proudhon) from 1815-1828, and a 1828 diary in Italian. This microfilm presumably was copied by Wilson from film held by the West Virginia University Library (see Wilson letter to Robert Munn, July 29, 1976).
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Microfilm
Visual Materials
Boxes 1-3 contain 140 reels of negative and positive microfilm of photographs. Made by Edison in 1973 as part of a reformatting project, the microfilm appears to duplicate the glass and film negatives in the collection. The reels are labeled with Edison negative numbers, with the exception of 12 reels in Box 3 that have been separated from their original labels. There are also several duplicate copies of some reels.
Subseries A