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Visual Materials
Image of Madie D. Brown, a California State Park Commissioner, sitting next to a boulder covered with a sheet unveiling a tablet beginning "California State Beach, Dedicated the 8th day of July 1931, by the honorable James Rolph, Jr., Governor." The photograph was taken before the dedication ceremonies opening the beach-side park in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1931.
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Visual Materials
Image of two young women in robes crouching next to a boulder covered with a sheet to unveil a tablet beginning "California State Beach, Dedicated the 8th day of July 1931, by the honorable James Rolph, Jr., Governor." The photograph was taken before the dedication ceremonies opening the beach-side park in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1931.
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Visual Materials
Image of two young women in a robe and swimsuit crouching next to a boulder covered with a sheet to unveil a tablet beginning "California State Beach, Dedicated the 8th day of July 1931, by the honorable James Rolph, Jr., Governor." The photograph was taken before the dedication ceremonies opening the beach-side park in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1931.
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Visual Materials
Image of a stone monument with a bronze tablet. At the top of the monument: C & F Indp't Penn'a Artillery. On the tablet is written: Position occupied / Pa Indp't Art'y F / Hampton's Battery, / July 3 A.D. 1863 / Organized at Pittsburgh, Pa. / Oct. 8th 1861 / Mustered out of United States Service / June 24, 1865 / On this field the following members fell / Joseph L. Miller / Jos. B. Todd / Adam Rath / Jacob Keirch / Hugh Purdy / John H. Herbert / Cha's. R. Bright / And eleven men were wounded / This tablet / erected to their memory / by the surviving members of / the Battery July 3rd 1885. . The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.
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Manuscripts
The volume includes transcripts of material about Robert Newell and the Nez Percé War of 1877. This material includes Newell's 1868 diary of his trip to Washington D.C. with several Nez Percé Indians including Lawyer, Jason, and Timothy, to negotiate a treaty. While in Washington, the group met with President Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Nathaniel G. Taylor. The diary also covers their overland trip back to Fort Lapwai, Idaho. There is also a typescript of a clipping regarding the unveiling of a bronze tablet dedicated to Robert Newell in 1931. Also present in the volume are typescripts of articles from the Lewiston Teller Extra from June 16-August 12, 1877, discussing the Nez Percé War
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Manuscripts
Letters that Edward Kirby wrote to his wife and eldest son Jake between 1827 and July 1848 constitute the largest portion of the collection. Kirby's peacetime letters describe his travels in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York State, and his trips to Washington, D.C., and discuss family news, business investments, the management of his two-thousand acre farm, the increasingly complicated financial affairs, the fallout from the Panic of 1837, and local news, including the events of the Patriot War (1837) in the neighboring Canada. Kirby, a leader of the local Whigs, also discusses state and national politics, in particular the internal improvements, protective tariff, and the annexation of Texas. Kirby also recounts Washington news and rumors and comments on various aspects of military life as well as the news of the Second Seminole War.
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