Manuscripts

Scrapbook and vouchers

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 and manuscripts: Benguist-Requa

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.

mssRequa

Image not available

Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera: Requa-Wilson

Manuscripts

mssRequa

Image not available

Isaac Lawrence Requa papers

Manuscripts

mssRequa

Image not available

Scrapbooks - Vouchers

Manuscripts

This collection consists of company records, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and audiovisual material related to the Whittier family and company.

mssWhittier

Image not available

Voucher

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, documents, and bound volumes documenting the legal and business affairs of the Savage Mining Company and the Hale and Norcross Mining Company. It includes receipts and disbursements, payrolls, bank books, time books, stockholders' statements and accounts, reports on ore extracted, and assays, vouchers, etc. The collection also includes letters to mining superintendents, a few pertaining to the mining town of Bodie, California, and some material concerning operations of the U.S. Mint in Carson City, Nevada, from 1888 to 1889.

mssNevadam

Image not available

Scrapbooks

Manuscripts

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.

mssLong

Scrapbook and vouchers

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Correspondence and manuscripts: Benguist-Requa

Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera: Requa-Wilson

Isaac Lawrence Requa papers

Scrapbooks - Vouchers

Voucher

Scrapbooks