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Correspondence and manuscripts: Benguist-Requa

Description: A collection of 381 items from 1819 to 1935, which consists of letters, documents, manuscripts, one scrapbook, and two photographs related to the personal life, professional activities and family of Isaac Lawrence Requa. There is personal correspondence between Requa and his family from 1877 to 1901, and materials about mining in Virginia City, Nevada. The collection also contains vouchers of the Chollar-Norcross-Savage Shaft Company and the Chollar Potosi Mining Company from 1876 to 1879. There are also letters and a few manuscripts by Mark Lawrence Requa, including his memoirs from January 10, 1918 to June 30, 1919 while director of the Oil Division of the United States Fuel Administration.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1819-1935.
Call number: mssRequa
Creator: Requa, Isaac L

Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera: Requa-Wilson

Manuscripts

A collection of 381 items from 1819 to 1935, which consists of letters, documents, manuscripts, one scrapbook, and two photographs related to the personal life, professional activities and family of Isaac Lawrence Requa. There is personal correspondence between Requa and his family from 1877 to 1901, and materials about mining in Virginia City, Nevada. The collection also contains vouchers of the Chollar-Norcross-Savage Shaft Company and the Chollar Potosi Mining Company from 1876 to 1879. There are also letters and a few manuscripts by Mark Lawrence Requa, including his memoirs from January 10, 1918 to June 30, 1919 while director of the Oil Division of the United States Fuel Administration.

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Isaac Lawrence Requa papers

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Isaac L. Requa Family photograph album

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An album with 44 card mounted studio portraits of California railroad and banking executive, Isaac L. Requa and his family and associates. There are several photographs of both Isaac and his wife, Sarah, a few photographs of their children, Mark L. Requa and Amy Requa Long; photographs of A. N. Towne, general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad; two photographs of Oscar Fitzalan Long, a United States military officer and Amy Requa's husband; Mrs. William Shaw; Laura Requa de Russey and husband; Granville Abbott; Will Cullen; Will S. Bliss; Will Herrick; Annie Herrick; Eva Towne Shaw and Nelson Towne Shaw; Alice Herrick Stanford; Harry East Miller; Clinton E. Worden; "Bud Bliss"; and Harvey Goodman. Most of the photographs are from San Francisco studios, but a few have New York imprints and there is one each from Virginia City, Nevada, and Berlin, Germany. Among the identified photographers are: Hurd of Virginia City; Howland & Lonergan's Imperial Studio (San Francisco); I. W. Taber (San Francisco); Dames & Hayes (San Francisco); Eddowes Brothers (New York); Morse (San Francisco); and Bradley & Rulofson.

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Amy (Requa) Russell. Biography of Mrs. Isaac L. Requa and related papers

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A collection of approximately 800 items from 1874 to 1941; the collection consists of letters (including 6 letter books), manuscripts, a journal, a diary, scrapbooks, and clippings, related to the life and military career of General Oscar Fitzalan Long. Along with the correspondence, which is mainly from 1898 to 1902, the collection also includes a journal of an expedition from Ft. Keogh under Colonel Miles in 1879, an unpublished manuscript of Long's "History of the Quartermaster Department, U.S. Army," and scrapbooks of life at West Point and the Spanish-American War. Also included are letters and diaries of Long's wife, Amy Requa Long, and letters from Collis Potter Huntington.

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Mark Lawrence Requa recollections of Early Days In Virginia City and Gold Hill - and a recount of the "Big Cravasse,"

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This text discusses a wide range of topics regarding life in Nevada before 1900, including coming west, mining, corruption, and home life on the frontier. Also included is a photocopy of a map showing the Northern Mother Lode during the 1850s.

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