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Winchester and Burlingame families papers
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Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984. Anson Burlingame, China's First U.S. Ambassador [typescript]
Manuscripts
The Clifford Merrill Drury papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, research notes, and typescripts related to Drakes Bay (Calif.), Drake's Plate of Brass, the history of religion in California, Rudolph James Wig, and Anson Burlingame. At the end of the box, there is a miscellaneous folder consisting of a letter from Sacramento County Free Library to Clifford M. Drury and two notes concerning Henry Kendall and the Coloma plaque.
mssDrurypapers
The Valley Agricultural Society Winchester VA
Visual Materials
Image of an agricultural exhibition or fair on a certificate from the Valley Agricultural Society of Winchester, Virginia; livestock being shown to onlookers at center, including horses, cows, sheep, and pigs; tents and grandstand full of people in background; produce, birds, and farming implements as well as intertwined wheat stalks make decorative borders.
priJLC_AGR_001794
Just out. : a new repeating shot gun. : the Winchester, : model 1893
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Image of a folded leaflet with four pages of images and text advertising different models of the Winchester 1893 shot gun, made by Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and sold by Greer & Laing in West Virginia. Images include variations of the model, component parts of the firearm, as well as diagrams and instructions on how to dismount and assemble the shot gun. Also included is pricing information, with models ranging from $25 - $62, and itemized price lists for the various parts.
priJLC_SPO_002930
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Muir family papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains correspondence and ephemera from John Muir and his family. The family members represented in the collection are John Muir, his parents, his seven siblings, two of his sisters-in-law and two of his nieces. The letters largely deal with family affairs, and give a detailed account of the family's daily life. Many of the letters mention John and his activities at different points in his life. They often discuss Muir's location, his publications and the family's trips to California to see him, his wife Louie, and their two daughters, Wanda and Helen. Several of John Muir's letters are written from Yosemite Valley; these letters give detailed accounts of Muir's activities at Yosemite as well as physical descriptions of the valley. Correspondence: All but one letter (John Muir to Anne Gilrye Muir, HM 57467) are addressed to Daniel H. Muir Jr., or his wife Emma Kinaston Muir (eleven letters are addressed to Daniel H. Muir, Jr. and Emma Kinaston Muir). One-third of the letters are written by John Muir's mother Anne Gilrye Muir. One letter is written by E. C. Love, a friend of the Muir family. The correspondence includes the following members of the Muir family (list shows relation to John Muir and number of items written by each family member): Joanna Muir Brown, sister (6); Anna G. Galloway, niece (1); Sarah Muir Galloway, sister (16); Mary Muir Hand, sister (7); Anna Muir, sister (4); Anne Gilrye Muir, mother (68); Daniel Muir, father (6); Daniel H. Muir, Jr., brother (1); David G. Muir, brother (9); John Muir (28); Katie Muir, sister-in-law (1); Margaret Muir Reid, sister (1); and Anna Reid Waterman, niece (1). Ephemera: The ephemera consists of six folders and contains calling cards, a Christmas card, envelopes, wedding invitations, mementos from John Muir, and miscellaneous printed ephemera, including newspaper clippings.
mssHM 57349-57497
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Postlethwaite family papers
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Correspondence and papers of the Postlethwaite family, chiefly letters to William Dunbar Postlethwaite from his friends and family in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky, including 27 letters from his father. The correspondence deals primarily with family affairs and the family's social life. Included are papers of Samuel Postlethwaite, including a book used to register enslaved persons' duties, from 1806 to 1807, the journals of his travels to Louisiana in 1810, 1811, and 1813, and two political articles on the Mississippi and Louisiana boundaries from 1817. Also included are genealogical notes on the Dunbar and Postlethwaite families, by Ellen Shields, 1938, and an 18th century copy of the poem entitled "L'ame de Voltaire," addressed to "Monsieur De Voltaire dans son chateau a Geneve." Monsieur Mortet, a justice of the city Blérencourt, France, gave the poem to Helen Holcombe Greene as a token of appreciation, in 1924, for her work as a director of Anne Morgan's center of the American Committee for Devastated France.
mssHM 28842-28863
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Postlethwaite family papers
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Correspondence and papers of the Postlethwaite family, chiefly letters to William Dunbar Postlethwaite from his friends and family in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky, including 27 letters from his father. The correspondence deals primarily with family affairs and the family's social life. Included are papers of Samuel Postlethwaite, including a book used to register enslaved persons' duties, from 1806 to 1807, the journals of his travels to Louisiana in 1810, 1811, and 1813, and two political articles on the Mississippi and Louisiana boundaries from 1817. Also included are genealogical notes on the Dunbar and Postlethwaite families, by Ellen Shields, 1938, and an 18th century copy of the poem entitled "L'ame de Voltaire," addressed to "Monsieur De Voltaire dans son chateau a Geneve." Monsieur Mortet, a justice of the city Blérencourt, France, gave the poem to Helen Holcombe Greene as a token of appreciation, in 1924, for her work as a director of Anne Morgan's center of the American Committee for Devastated France.
mssHM 28842-28863