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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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depicts Osborn's life in New York, including pursuit of a job at various city newspapers, a failed attempt at running a newsstand at his boarding house and frequenting theaters, reading rooms, lectures, church services, and Republican meetings. He reports "seeing an shaking hands with Abraham Lincoln" during the president-elect's visit to the city; seeing Laura Keen, Charlotte Cushman, and other prominent actors; attending lectures by Horace Greeley and Rev. Chapin, attending Republican meetings at the Cooper Union, "making Union rosettes," etc.
mssHM 71510-71514
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Official correspondence and records accumulated by Edward Willis during his career in the Confederate Army. Included are the general and special orders received from Army of Northwest, War Department, Army Headquarters, Adjutant and Inspector General, and Headquarters of Cavalry Forces, dispatches and regimental records (petitions, recommendations, medical certificates, reports, requisitions, muster rolls, etc.), records of courts martial, etc.
mssBR Boxes 149-152
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Received of…the following clothing, camp and garrison equipage, at Camp Meigs, Readville, Mass.; Received of…the number of copies of Military Register
mssNichols
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This notebook contains notes of receipts and requisitions for military supplies (including weapons) given out by William H. Beaumont. It also incldues copies of documents and letters. Written on the inside front cover "Camp Nelson's point July 3 1779."
mssHM 77954
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The collection includes 720 pieces of correspondence, 32 receipts and account statements and 15 pieces of ephemera. All receipts and accounts belonged to Henry Z. Osborne and the majority of them are for mining-related expenses. The ephemera is primarily related to politics in general, and California politics in particular, although other interests are also represented. Of note is a book containing photographs of the construction of the harbor in San Pedro, California. The majority of the correspondence is addressed to Osborne, although 24 of the letters were authored by him. Subjects addressed within the correspondence, and the collection as a whole, include: the Associated Press, California politics and government (especially Los Angeles), California's political candidates, the Central Pacific Railroad Company, the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, the Los Angeles Times (and Harrison Gray Otis), William McKinley, mines and mineral resources of Arizona and California (particularly in Trinity County), political patronage in California, California's selection and appointment of public officials, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and the Osborne family. Significant correspondents include: Thomas Robert Bard, Charles F. Bassett, Stephen Bowers, Robert Nelson Bulla, Charles Frederick Crocker, M. H. DeYoung, Charles Sanford Diehl, Morris March Estee, Henry T. Gage, Ulysses S. Grant, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, William Henry Harrison Hart, Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Edwards Huntington, William George Kerckhoff, Paris Kilburn, Henry Harrison Markham, Valentine Stuart McClatchy, Joseph McKenna, James McLachlan, Frank McLaughlin, Nelson Appleton Miles, William H. Mills, George Clement Perkins, Samuel Morgan Shortridge, John Diedrich Spreckels and Charles Dwight Willard.
mssOsborne1
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Chiefly official correspondence accumulated by James A. Bates during his service at Hammond Hospital and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Included are letters, reports, muster out rolls, passes, orders, monthly returns, circulars, etc.
mssBR Box 121 (1)