Manuscripts

Rhyolite, Nevada documents

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Description: First document is an invoice for the Rhyolite Volunteer Fire Dept. from The Nevada-California Power Company, 1909 December 1. The second document is "Records of Pouches received and dispatched at Rhyolite, Nev.," 1907 June.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1907-1909.
Call number: mssRhyolite
Provenance: Gift of Bruce Mendenhall via L. Bynum, July 1934.
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Panoramas of Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog, Rhyolite and Diamondfield, Nevada

Visual Materials

No old shelf mark. Five panoramic views on one sheet. Caption for Goldfield panorama: "Photographed Expressly for the Twentieth Century Miner by P.E. Larson, Goldfield, Nevada." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: "Panoramas" of Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog, Rhyolite and Diamondfield.

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War Department Ciphers Received Feb. 7 to June 26, 1862

Manuscripts

292 pages; 36 x 22 cm. Title from spine label. Cover label: U. S. Military Telegraph. E. M. Stanton, and War Dept., Received. End date appears to be July 23; the last written telegram is dated June 26, but the previous telegram is dated July 23rd. Approximately 327 telegrams. P. 182-183 and 235-292 are blank.

EC 2

Printed invitation to opening of New Chinatown

Manuscripts

Invitation on glossy paper to the opening of New Chinatown on June 25, 1938. Attached to invitation is an invoice from the printer. Mitchell & Herb Engravers.

mssSooHoo

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Document regarding the estate of W.A. Leidesdorff

Manuscripts

This document is a bond for administration of the estate of William Alexander Leidesdorff. It is authored by WIlliam Davis Merry Howard and Thomas Oliver Larkin, and is for the attention of John Townsend. It appears to be a template, as it included spaces for dates and signatures, but the spaces remain blank. Dated June, 1848.

mssHM 35199

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Martinon, A. 1 letter to Gaspar Oreña (in Spanish)

Manuscripts

Note: this letter is glued to a sheet of cardstock to which another document is attached. The second is an 1873 invoice for Gaspar Oreña from Santa Clara College

HM 70944

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Walter E. Scott [Death Valley Scotty] letter to William F. Keys

Manuscripts

In this letter, Walter Scott tells his friend Bill Keys that he got his letter and is out in the mountains with the mules. He would be home in a week and wanted to drop by and tell him what was on his mind. Scott mentions that "they" are going to make a picture and will tell Bill about it when he sees him. Letter is on Walter Scott's letterhead, The Castle at Death Valley, Goldfield, Nevada. Cover is postmarked Goldfield, Nev., 7AM, June 22, 1935. A second postmark on the verso is from Banning, Calif., 8PM, June 25, 1935. Letter is addressed to Bill Keys, Desert Queen PO, White water, Calif. via Banning.

mssHM 30948

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