Marie E. Gilchrist collection.

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Marie E. Gilchrist collection.

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This collection consists of narrative daily journals and field notes of surveying expeditions maintained by William Ives, deputy surveyor. The daily journals covers various months of the years 1846-1848, and the summer of 1850. The field notes are of surveys of Scarecrow Island, Gill Island, Isle Royale, and another island situated in Thunder Bay River. The collection also contains a "Memorandum of a tour of surveying with Wm. A. Burt", dating from Aug. 1, 1844 through Oct. 27, 1844; an acoount book of daily household expenses from 1904; and a printed copy of a letter to William Burt from Richard S. Mellen, Jan. 20, 1870, being an account of a survey trip in 1844 which included a discovery of iron in the Lake Superior country.

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Gilchrist, Marie Emilie, 1893-1989

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Smith College, Class of 1916; M.A., 1921. Employed by Cleveland Public Library 1916-1918, 1926-1930 and Reader's Digest, 1942-1951. Died 1989. Poet. From the description of Marie Emilie Gilchrist papers, 1906-1990. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51236732 Marie Emilie Gilchrist, born January 4, 1893, took an interest in poetry at an early age. She began publishing her work while a student at the Hathaway-Brown School for girls in Cleveland, Ohio. While at S...

Ives, William H

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Burt, William A. 1914-

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Mellen, Richard S.

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