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Description: Official records and documents of the ship from 1892 to 1899. Included are receipts for transfer of men from the Olympia to other ships and to hospitals; mess assignments; receipts for men returned on board from leaves; inspection and conduct reports; quarterly surveys; expenditure vouchers; captain's orders, and others.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1892-1899
Call number: mssOlympia
Creator: Olympia (Cruiser)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Stan V. Henkels, October 1922. From the Spanish-American War collection of Captain Roswell Randall Hoes.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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U.S.S. Olympia records

Manuscripts

Official records and documents of the ship from 1892 to 1899. Included are receipts for transfer of men from the Olympia to other ships and to hospitals; mess assignments; receipts for men returned on board from leaves; inspection and conduct reports; quarterly surveys; expenditure vouchers; captain's orders, and others.

mssOlympia

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U.S.S. Olympia records

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mssOlympia

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Rolled maps - blueprints

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The collection consists of legal papers, correspondence, letter books, ledgers, and account books related chiefly to the Banning Company, Wilmington harbor, Wilmington property, and Santa Catalina Island. There are also papers of the various subsidiary firms of the Banning Company, as well as Banning family letters, and receipts of William and Hancock Banning.

mssBanning Company

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The James D. Hague papers consist of correspondence, 46 letter books, manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, field books, documents, photographs, maps and drawings. Subject matter includes the family and business affairs of James D. Hague and mining, including the South Sea Expedition of 1858 to 1861, the Calumet and Hecla copper mines in Michigan from 1863 to 1914, and other mining companies in the Western U.S. and in Mexico. Also included in the collection are a few drawings and letters of Mary Hallock Foote; materials related to James D. Hague's father, Rev. William Hague (1808-1887); and Prince Heinrich of Prussia's visit to the United States in 1902. Persons represented in the collection include: Henry Adams, Ellsworth Daggett, William Earl Dodge, Samuel Franklin Emmons, Stuyvesant Fish, James T. Gardiner, James Ben Ali Haggin, Arnold Hague, Edward Everett Hale, Edward Henry Harriman, Henry Holt, Edwin J. Hulbert, Henry Janin, Louis Janin, John La Farge, Raphael Pumpelly, George Haven Putnam, Rossiter W. Raymond, Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Tyndall, Henry Villard, and Stanford White. Mining companies represented in the collection include the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, the New Almaden Mining Company, and the North Star Mines Company.

mssHague

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Rolled maps and blueprints (large)

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