Various. 1990 Library Accessions, 1703-1969.
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1990 Library Accessions, 1703-1969.
Accessions include: papers of Ralph Cowan Browne, inventor of the magnetic mine that closed the North Sea in World War I, which include a scrapbook, correspondence and photographs (90002); the Wright Family Papers, which include bills, receipts, and material pertaining to the Women's Republican Club, Salem, MA, a precinct list for Ward 2, Salem, MA, and bylaws for several other Republican political organizations (90006); Osborne K. Winslow Papers, a Lynn, MA shoemaker, which include shoe patterns for each of his customers, correspondence, and receipts (90007); holiday postcards and greeting cards sent to Katherine Lane Weems (90008); Newburyport Wharf Book No. 2, which lists names of ships using the wharf and dockage and wharfage fees (90009); concert programs for Lynn Choral Society, Lynn, MA (90012); Bushby Family genealogy (90014); journal kept by Charles Wardell, of Andover, MA, who sailed from Newburyport to San Francisco on the Brig Charlotte, which recounts his voyage and activities once in California and photocopy of same (90016, original journal, and 90004, photocopy, packaged together); Henry Harrington Papers, which consist mostly of deeds, Leonard Harrington Papers, which include articles of agreement, receipts, and deeds, Daniel Nichols' stock receipts and deeds, a letter from Gen. George B. McClellan to William Nichols during the Civil War, and papers of Squiers Shove, which include deeds and documents for the sale of land and a wharf in Salem, MA (90017); Sutton Engine Company, #7, record books, with rules of company, list of members, and day-to-day record of alarms, plus Fire Company records from Salem, MA, which list men assigned to the engines within the companies and records of firemen appointments (90018); manuscript notes on Peabody, MA, which include documentation about Central Street, Wilson Square, the Torrent Engine, Co., Andover Street, and genealogical information about the Osborn family (90019); historical notes on Bluehill, ME, written in three volumes, which include sketches of the Penobscot Indians, births and deaths, and agricultural information (90020); five lectures on topics such as the progess of humanity and the position of men in the universe, given by Thomas Barnard West in Beverly, MA, Boston, MA, and Topsfield, MA, with notes for a sixth lecture (90021); tape recording of Robert Frost lecture, with transcript of same, given at Hamilton Hall, Salem, MA (90022); letters to and from Ezekiel, Joseph, and Benjamin Russell with a lease between Joseph Hovey and Ezekiel Russell (90028); extensive notes on sermons of the early 1700's by an unknown author combined in one volume translated from the original French language (90031); diary of Rev. Alfred Manchester of Salem, MA (90034); baptisms, deaths, and communicants of the East Church, Salem, MA and baptisms in the First Church of Salem, MA, copied by Perley Derby into a diary kept by an unknown lawyer, judge or court clerk (90035); applications for Orders of Knighthood in the Winslow Lewis Commandery, No. 18 of Salem, MA between 1888-1819 (90036); letters to Robert S. Rantoul from E. A. Emmerton and Frank Cousins regarding the Sun Tavern, Salem, MA (90040); manuscript pocket diaries of Silas M. Titcomb of West Newbury, MA (90057); ledgers/daybooks of Dr. Amos H. Peirce of West Newbury, MA, including a blank receipt book and a blank perscription pad (90065); manuscript material pertaining to John Dupar, Joshua Safford Newport, and Moses Day Webber, including a poetry commonplace book, school grammar books, music readers, and dance books (90070); papers pertaining to the George W. Pepper Company of Peabody, MA, including account books, receipt books, stock certificate books, billheads, trademark regisgtration for cough drops, checkbook for the Peabody Candy Company of Peabody, MA, photographs of factory workers, and personal papers of George W. Pepper and Lille May (Tittle) Pepper and photographs of their children (90083); account books of three generations of Abraham Caldwells of Ipswich, MA (90084); genealogy of the Tilton Family (90094); and commonplace books of Josiah Williard Gibbs, Sr. containing information on Essex County, MA history, mathematics, receipts and observations on popular science and technology (90097).
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