Manuscripts

(1) EXHIBIT OF RECEIPTS AND OPERATING EXPENSES

Description

This is a record for seventeen years, by months, for the years 1873 through 1889. A special printed form filled out in manuscript.

Doubtless, this was a confidental record for the private use of the railroad's owners.

This period includes the years of the Big Bonanza. The fabulous prosperity of the railroad and the Comstock during this period is indicated by the dividends paid. For the years 1876, 1877 and 1878 dividends averaged about $750,000 per year.

Since it records concisely, the operating financial information accumulated from the many records of the company, it is most valuable for a study of the railroad during this period.

Receipts are classified as from freight, passenger, ores, wood, lumber, weighing and miscellaneous. Disbursements are shown for train service, locomotive service, telegraph service, repairs, loss and damage to freight and property, etc.

Of special interest are the manuscript notations of the payment of dividends, interest, the purchase of rails, payments to the contractors for the Carson and Colorado Railroad, etc.

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1862-1950.

V. & T. R.R. Co. - Receipts & operating expenses

Manuscripts

The collection consists of materials related to railroads built in Nevada and eastern California in connection with the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining booms in Nevada and California (mainly in the period from 1870-1890). Subjects in the collection include not only the railroad and mining industries but also the lumber industry.

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Receipts, Cancelled Checks and Expense Notes (1920-1932). 49 items

Manuscripts

This collection contains the papers of silent film and stage actor Harrison Ford. The majority of the material relates to Ford's finances, and includes correspondence with and documents of the Internal Revenue Service, receipts, personal account ledgers, expense books, one contract, and state tax documents from New York. It also contains tax-related receipts from Ford's employers stating the amount he earned for the fiscal year and fiscal-related correspondence with his attorney, Claude I. Parker. There is some correspondence related to the casting and players associations of which he was a member, in both California and New York, as well as some personal correspondence including a series of letters from a Mrs. G. P. G. of San Francisco, California. The artifacts include a photograph in a frame (possibly of Ford), a seal, six Forest Service buttons, and a small tin containing four small miscellaneous items including charms.

mssFord Harrison papers

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(10) WAY BILL REGISTER NO. 1

Manuscripts

Records way-bills from March 21, 1881 through April 30, 1884. This is the first way bill register of the railroad. A special printed form filled out in manuscript. Records point of origin, destination and charges.

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Cash Receipts: Estate of Edward Perry Warren

Manuscripts

Volume with entries of cash receipts related to the estate of Edward Perry Warren providing date, description of transaction, and columns for the debits and credits of: cash, securities, other accounts, securities sold, accounts payable, executors' expenses, income accounts from dividends and interest, interest to legatees, income control a/c, distribution of estate to legacies and to trustees, and principal account.

mssMerrymount

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b The last Minden train register. This is autographed on by all of the passengers, train crew and railroad officials on the special passenger train operated on that date. The last train on the date of abandonment as also the work train operated the next day to take empty cars to the Southern Pacific at Reno, are registered

Manuscripts

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Art Faustgen - operating expenses

Manuscripts

The Ely Collection consists of the papers of United States Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Walter R. Ely, Jr., past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and prominent Los Angeles attorney. Roughly one-third of the collection consists of over 2000 U.S. Circuit Court case files for the period 1971-1984, including private internal memoranda between Ely and such prominent fellow justices as Anthony Kennedy (now on the Supreme Court) and Shirley Hufstedler. Included are many cases with both local significance and larger regional or national impact, with a random check finding topics such as offshore drilling, censorship ("The Beard"), race relations and education (Los Angeles NAACP vs. California Department of Education), immigration (numerous INS cases), labor relations (Teamsters; NLRB cases), feminism (NOW), and financial fraud (Equity Funding; Bernard Cornfeld), with private comments by the justices not only on the cases but also on Supreme Court behavior, personnel, etc. In addition, there is material on the Committee on Standards of Judicial Administration, the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, and the Bankruptcy Appeals Panel in the early 1980s. Before being appointed to the bench, Walter Ely was a prominent and politically active lawyer in Los Angeles. There is extensive documentation of his involvement with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, of which he was president in 1962, the California Conference of State Bar Delegates, and the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, not to mention his own personal practice. He was also an active Democrat, and there is material on California politics for 1956-1964, especially the election campaigns of Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, Attorney General Stanley Mosk, Richard Richards, and others in 1962.

mssEly

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