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Loose, mounted photographs from album

Description: Image numbers: 8, 9, 11, 21, 33, 37
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1883-1890.
Call number: photCL 304
Provenance: Purchased from Gertrude M. Nicholson, through the agency of Robert O. Schad, September 1922. This album was received as part of the Nicholson collection of papers, manuscripts and books related to the Civil War.
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Matted photographs from album

Visual Materials

Image numbers: 45-46 (double-sided board with two photographs); 50, 51.

photCL 306

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Loose photographs

Visual Materials

Image numbers: 6, 7, 22, 29. Two photographs by Mathew Brady, 1862.

photCL 305

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Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Rare Books

Primarily consists of: Transactions, v. 1, 3, 5-8, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, 32, 34-35, 38, 42-43; and: Collections, v. 2, 4, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-41; also includes lists of members

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Set of thirteen chiefly 8 x 10" photographs found in the back of the scrapbooks of the Nevills Expedition. The photographer presumably is C. W. Larabee, official photographer for the expedition down the Colorado and Green River. Photographs consist of: Item 1. Mildred E. Baker drinking out of a tin cup Items 2-4. The Nevills Expedition packing their 3 boats Items 5-7. The Nevills Expedition taking a lunch break and viewing the Colorado River rapids Item 8. Walking in the cliff formations near the Colorado River Items 9-10. The Nevills Expedition tying up their boats, with views of striated rock formations Item 11. Rock formations Item 12-13. 5 x 7 in. prints showing Indian petroglyphs found on rock walls.

photCL 237

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Edison Centennial Reel 48

Manuscripts

Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 21:40 Edison Centennial Reel 48 (Library Roll #1169). Includes the following drawings and photographs: 1. Old street scene 2:00:20 2. Buildings exterior 2:01:27 3. 2 men in Edison horse buggy cart 2:04:51 4. Building exterior 2:08:13 5. Men around ditch 2:08:58 6. Big white building 2:10:16 7. Interior of plant 2:11:35 8. Drawing of tram line 2:13:30 9. Tram line 2:14:21 10. Early turbine 2:14:37 11. Hauling up equipment 2:17:00

SCE MP 247

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Thomas Family Photograph Album

Visual Materials

A personal photograph album of 104 images with handwritten captions chiefly depicting Chester A. Thomas (1874-1920) and Thomas family members between 1892 and 1898 in mining camps in Nevada (pages 1-29); at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (pages 30-33); visiting Harvard University and Cambridge, Massachusetts (pages 38-49); and at Camp Merritt at the Presidio, San Francisco, in 1898 (pages 33-37 and 50-65). The album includes 20 cyanotype photographs (12.5 x 16.5 cm) of the mining camps in Virginia City and Sutro, Nevada (where Thomas's father, Charles Thomas, was superintendent of the Sutro tunnel), including: mining equipment, miners, locomotive cars, interior views of the mine shaft, buildings and mules. Some of the images are of Camp Merritt, at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, where California volunteers assembled in May-June 1898 for transport to the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Thomas, a member of Company K of the United States Cavalry Volunteers, is depicted as well as other soldiers, including members of the 51st Iowa Volunteers.

photCL 144

Loose, mounted photographs from album

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