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Mayor and City Councils, Philadelphia, copy of resolutions
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Mayor and City Councils, Philadelphia, copy of resolutions
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Typescript copy. Resolutions "regarding the death of the President of the United States." (2 pages)
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Mayor and City Council, Baltimore, Maryland, resolution offering reward
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Contemporary copy. Resolution offering reward of $10,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the late President of the United States. Certified by John A. Thompson, Register's Office, 1865 May 3. (2 pages)
HM 2113
William H. Seward, Washington, D.C., certified copy of Emancipation Proclamation
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Document signed. Printed certification form filled in by Seward, with black seal of the United States and mourning ribbon attached to printed copy of the Proclamation.
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Abraham Lincoln copy of speech given in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Manuscripts
Handwritten copy, incomplete. Lincoln's speech given on the occasion of raising an American flag containing an additional star for Kansas over Independence Hall. In hand of William Harrison Lambert.
mssLincoln
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Resolutions of the Stock Holders [undated]. 2 items. Two copies of one resolution
Manuscripts
The Temple Oil Company Records is comprised of ephemera, invoices, leases, deeds, letters of resignation, financial documents, receipts, proxies and resolutions. Prominent participants include Thomas Robert Bard, Prudent Beaudry, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and Francis Pliny F. Temple.
mssTempleoil
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Mayor and Common Council. City ordinances
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This manuscript contains innumerable city ordinances copied by Sidney Bernard Reeve for various people. A large portion of these ordinances were copied by Reeve for railroad magnate Henry Edwards Huntington. The ordinances copied for Huntington included "Sale of stock in the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company by City to Southern Pacific Railroad Company," "Depot Grounds of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Re-located," "Workshop Grounds Southern Pacific Railroad Company, located," "Right of way for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.," "Franchise, Spring and Sixth Street Horse Railroad," "Franchise extension of Spring and Sixth Street Railroad (Street Cars)," "Transfer of City stock of the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company," among others. A few ordinances, such as an 1856 ordinance regarding the "Old Plaza, Sonora Town" in Los Angeles, were copied by Reeve for real estate agent William May Garland. Additionally, ordinances involving the "Grant of City Lands to the Pioneer Oil Company of Los Angeles" and the "Concession of Lands to Phineas Banning, Heirs, etc." were copied by Reeve for oil tycoon Edward Laurence Doheny and his business partners Charles Canfield, and Danziger.
mssHM 4374