The collection, which spans from 1538-2002 (bulk 1548-1780), contains 927 items pertaining chiefly to Duchess Lydia's business and financial activities in the intervening six years between her husband's death and her own, as well as the activities...
This collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, deeds, indentures, leases, volumes, and ephemera, mostly related to Francis Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon, Nicholas Bacon, the Bacon family, their work, the Bacon lands in Essex, as well...
Part of the Kemble collection donated by John Haskell Kemble, the Kemble Maritime Ephemera Collection was assembled by Kemble through purchases of ephemera from travel agencies and other collectors, as well as items collected during his own...
This collection primary consists of business correspondence addressed to Henry M. Yerington. Such subjects include mines and mineral resources in Nevada and Cerro Gordo, California; pumping machinery, and water rights in Inyo County, California. Of...
The collection consists mainly of letters from Isabel Burton and Richard Burton to Leonard Charles Smithers from 1885 to 1892, the collection also contains a printed prospectus for The Arabian Nights, a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, a...
Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, and photographs of the Ward and Thoreau families. The correspondence consists of letters to Prudence Ward from Sophia, Maria, and Helen Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's letters to Anne J. Ward (1905,...
The Aurora Consolidated Mines Company Records, composed mostly of plans and blueprints for mine equipment, appear to be primarily from the mine's metal and repair shop. The collection is composed of one manuscript, a large number of plans and...
The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and records (accounts, bills, estimates, receipts, orders to pay and promissory notes). Correspondents represented in the collection include: Cadell & Davies, Thomas Cadell, 1742-1802, Thomas...
This collection contains photographs of citrus orchards, citrus fruit (lemons and oranges), workers in the field, and citrus fairs. Several companies show up in the photographs including the California Fruit Growers Exchange, San Dimas Lemon...
The Samuel G. Hibben collection is divided into four sections: articles, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera. The bulk of the collection consists of articles, both handwritten and printed, and most written by Hibben. The rest are...
Image of an orange grove seen through the center of a large triangle logo of G.R. Hand & Company; orange branches in right and left upper corners. "Packed by G.R. Hand & Company, California"--text, bottom centered. "Mutual, L. & L. S.F."--text,...
Image of a man and two women waving from a caboose platform as train steams through an orange grove; hand in triangle logo of packing company at lower right. "Packed by / G.R. hand & Company. / California."--text, lower left. "Mutual Label & Lith....
Image of the Santa Catalina Island coastline with hills overlooking a beach, harbor, boats, docks and buildings; G. R. Hand & Company hand-in-triangle logo at lower right. Packed by / G.R. Hand & Company, / California"Mutual Label & Lith. Co....