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C.W. Williams collection of early ballooning and parachuting
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[Collection of original drawings, engravings, broadsides, posters, programs, songs, etc. relating to aeronautics
Rare Books
These two portfolio boxes contain approximately 200 items that form part of the prints and ephemera of the Huntington Library Aeronautica Collection. The images and texts within this collection include illustrations, diagrams, and descriptions of balloons and parachutes, balloon ascents, descents, and accidents; portraits of aeronauts; and political cartoons and fanciful or documentary pictures that incorporate depictions of balloons, airships, and flying machines. The collection features prints chronicling the progression of early aeronautical history from the first manned balloon ascent launched by French brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in 1783, to the well-publicized ascents of famed English balloonist Charles Green in the mid 1800s.
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William Vaughn Moody collection
Manuscripts
Manuscript letters from William Vaughn Moody to Harriet Brainard, 1901 to 1909, and a scrapbook of letters to Brainard. Also a scrapbook of clippings and letters (1935 to 1936) to Edith S. Kellogg relating to the publication Letters to Harriet, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1935.
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Huntington Library Aeronautica Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Visual Materials
This finding aid briefly describes the more than 600 prints and ephemera contained within the Huntington Library's Aeronautica collection. These materials date from 1762 to 1940 and document the early history of balloon flight primarily in France and England, as well as the use of aeronautical imagery in satirical, documentary, and decorative images. Items are housed either as loose and matted items in folders and boxes or pasted in one bound scrapbook. The images and texts within this collection include illustrations, diagrams, and descriptions of balloons and parachutes, balloon ascents, descents, and accidents; portraits of aeronauts; and political cartoons and fanciful or documentary pictures that incorporate depictions of balloons, airships, and flying machines. The collection features prints chronicling the progression of early aeronautical history from the first manned balloon ascent launched by French brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in 1783, to the well-publicized ascents of famed English balloonist Charles Green in the mid 1800s. While most materials concern the development of balloon flight, the collection also includes anomalous images of balloons such as in British satirical prints and in two 18th century Indian watercolors depicting scenes with demigods in flying machines (pri472 Box 1, Item No. 1, and pri475 Box 1, Item No. 1). The earliest dated image in the collection is a Scottish satirical print from 1762 depicting three men on a broom "Flying Machine" (RB 10015, Item No. 2:2), and the most recently issued item is a booklet of photostat facsimiles of trade cards held in the Bella C. Landauer Aeronautical Collection, copyrighted 1940 (RB 240367). Among the individual aeronauts, aviators, engineers, inventors, and scientists most frequently referenced and depicted in the collection are British aeronauts George Biggin, Robert Cocking (1776-1837), Charles Green (1785-1870), and James Sadler (1753-1828); Italian-English aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi (or Vincent Lunardi) (1759-1806); and French aeronauts François Arban (1815-1849), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809), Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles (1746-1823), Andre Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823), Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier (1756-1785), Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810), Anne-Jeane Robert (1758-1820), and Marie-Noel Robert (1760-1820). Item types consist primarily of prints, illustrations, and broadsides, but also include ephemera such as handbills, advertisements, original drawings and watercolors, invitations and tickets, handwritten notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, handwritten notes, scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes, and sheet music. Languages represented include French, English, German, Dutch, and Latin. The materials were first described by the Huntington Library in paper-based box lists and catalog records beginning the 1930s and this finding aid builds off of the descriptions found therein. Two items listed in earlier box lists and included in this finding aid (pri 470 Box 4, Item No. 44a and pri472 Box 3 Item, No. 28) were identified as missing.
pri470, pri472, pri475, 10015, 139413, etc.
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M.R. Williams education materials
Manuscripts
Collection of letters and report cards relating to M.R. Williams and education in Los Angeles County from 1888-1910. Includes a variety of letters of recommendation and letters of appointment for Williams to various posts in the Los Angeles County School District, including those to the Board of Education, as head of the El Lugo School District, and as principal of Compton Public Schools. The letters were written by representatives of the El Lugo School District, Office of the Board of Education, Monrovia Schools, Santa Monica Public Schools, and Pasadena Public Schools. Also included are six reports cards for Williams' son, Manley, from Compton and Monrovia (1901-1905), a report card for Jessie Williams (Monrovia, 1909-1910), and a letter from the Compton School Alumni Committee thanking Mr. and Mrs. Williams for their assistance in putting on a play.
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William Westall and Richard Westall Collection of Papers and Correspondence
Manuscripts
This collection contains correspondence, documents, engravings, and ephemera of the Westall brothers assembled at the Huntington Library. The papers consist of 38 letters, one bound manuscript volume, and one folder of ephemera. Included are the correspondence of William and Richard Westall, a bound volume of Richard Westall's illustrations, and printed pieces and photograph reproductions of various and paintings and illustrations. The incoming correspondence of William Westall includes letters from Sir John Carr, William Bernard Cooke, and others. 18 letters are signed "W. Stevens, Sedbergh, Westmoreland, England." There are six letters by Richard Westwall, written between 1811 and 1836, including two letters addressed to his brother. Also included is a statement of account for Richard Westall (1829). Also included is a letter by James William Inman to a "M. Parrington." (1811). The collection also contains a the bound manuscript volume titled Westall's Illustrations of Bryon's Works, with Suitable Extras, and a Brief Memoir, with 31 printed illustrative plates drawn by Richard Westall and engraved by various artists.
mssHM 54281-54318, HM 63286
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Henry Edward Williams letters, (bulk 1862-1864)
Manuscripts
Letters of Henry Edward Williams of the 34th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment from Virginia and West Virginia to his family. In his letters, Williams discusses military operations including the raid on Harrisburg in December 1863, skirmishes outside of Charleston, South Carolina, and encounters with guerrillas. He also mentions his time in Libby Prison and military hospitals, Confederate deserters and prisoners, as well as fugitive slaves. In a letter dated 1864 August 28, Williams expressed his unhappiness about having shared a hospital room with wounded African American soldiers. Also included is a 1914 letter setting up a foundation to benefit the estate of Colonel George D. Wells, one of the commanders of Williams' regiment who died in 1864 after being wounded in battle, other regiment information, and biographies and obituaries of Williams.
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