The collection comprises 66 items including 23 travel letters, 15 diaries, 4 scrapbooks, 22 photographs and 2 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera. The travel letters cover two trips taken by Mary Catton: 1. Trip to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia,...
Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902...
The collection consists mostly of Irvine's manuscripts, arranged alphabetically by title. The entirety of the first and the beginning of the second box consist of manuscript drafts - both typescript and autograph - of chapters from the author's...
The Willis M. Hawkins Papers, 1920-2009 (80 boxes) document the successful aerospace engineering career of Hawkins at Lockheed, the relationships between industry, military, and government, and the development of airplanes, missile systems, and...
The Manuscript Department of the Huntington has over 5,000 items in its holdings related to the subject of Hawaii. This material spans 200 years of Hawaiian history (inclusive dates are 1766 to 1977) and ranges from individual letters and journals...
The collection has been organized by subject, although some subjects can be found throughout the collection. Inclusive dates are 1940 to 1955; much material is from the 1980s and early 1990s, save for selected documents and the Technical Notes and...
The Manuscripts series, which contains 690 items, chiefly contain the works of George Dock, some of which relate to his autobiography, but chiefly to his medical work. These include articles, speeches, essays, book reviews, translations, notes, as...
London. Engrav'd & Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Augt. 10th, 1776. by Wm. Faden Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross. To Commodore Sir Peter Parker Knt. &c. &c. This Plan is Most humbly Dedicated & Presented by Lt. Colonel Thos....
Image of Union General Logan's rear attack on the Confederate army in woods, generals on horse with American flags leading the battle, Confederate cannons on hill bombing Union lines. "Rear Attack by Genl. John A. Logan_May 16th 1863."--text,...
One hundred mounted numbered albumen photographs of the operations of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, etc. Each numbered plate is accompanied by a page of descriptive letterpress.
Stereograph showing dead Confederate soldiers in front of the damaged battery at Fort Robinette, Corinth, Mississippi the morning after the attack. Several men stand in background behind carnage.
The twin cores of this small collection consist of (1) six letters from Captain Paterson to his uncle Charles William Tonyn (d. 1805, rector of Radnage in Buckinghamshire) and to his grandmother, written chiefly from the Mediterranean in 1793-1794,...