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Map of Eastern Kansas / by E.B. Whitman & A.D. Searl, General Land Agents

Description: Alt. title from cover. Whitman & Searl are land agents soliciting offers for their help in setting up settlements and careful to show Indian lands. Topeka in the temporary State Capital and the Government Reservation lower left is labeled "The Geographical Center of U. S. Possessions." The cover bears hand written note "Yale College Library." Vignettes: Buildings in Lawrence and Topeka. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: EgK36 856W 41435 46303.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1856
Call number: 41435
Creator: Whitman, E. B(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 68 x 52 cm folded to 12mo
Associated people: Searl, A. D.
Associated organization: John P. Jewett (Firm : New York)
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Hospital Note Book

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An autograph notebook kept by Walt Whitman during his services as an army nurse in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. The notebook is bound with fabric tape with a cover of yellow paper; the cover is inscribed: "Hospital Note Book. Walt Whitman." The majority of the notebook is written in pencil with a few pages in ink; the entries are written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again. With the notebook is a blue morocco leather embossed slipcase; also enclosed, an original paper envelope, printed with "The Arlington, Washington, D.C."

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Jacob Whitman Bailey botanical drawings and letters

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This material includes a series of botanical drawings by Jacob Whitman Bailey (HM 83530-83533); some of the drawings are dated 1832 and include carefully labeled, detailed drawings of cryptogamia and phenogamia, some with extended descriptions. The autograph letters by Bailey (HM 83534-83537) are dated 1833, January-July, and are written to his step-father, Professor George Washington Keely in Waterville, Maine. The letters are written when he was stationed at Moultrie, South Carolina and Bellona Arsenal, Virginia as an Army lieutenant; the letters are written at the time of the Nullification Crisis and discuss the crisis as well as slavery in South Carolina and Virginia. Also included is the original cover (HM 83538) of the volume which contained the Bailey material; the cover has the original pasted down paper label with an autograph list of contents, written in an unknown hand.

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Map showing the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana, Idaho and in part of North Dakota and in part of Eastern Washington, reaching from Dickinson, North Dakota to Ritzville, Eastern Washington

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Alt. title from cover. Verso text mentions the Census of 1890 and the increase in population since then. Verso goes to great lengths to entice land buyers to the region. Green shading denotes the Land Grant of the N.P. Railroad. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Map of the Public Land States and Territories constructed from the Public Survey and other official sources in the General Land Office

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Sticker in verso of cover: C. A. Schaffter. "Drawn by J. H. Hawes, Principal Draughtsman and T. Franks, Assistant. 1865." "Engraved by D. M. McClelland, Washington." "39th Cong. 1st Sess. Annual Report of the Commr. General Land Office." Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Map of Eastern Kansas / by E.B. Whitman & A.D. Searl, General Land Agents

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