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In 1919, Flora MacDonald Denison and her son Merrill sent this card to friends and family.
Merrill was born June 23rd, 1893 so he would have been 26 when in France with the US Army
Part of the Bon Echo Provincial Park Album
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This book of English heraldry was completed ca. 1589. The manuscript belonged to the Spencer family, as known through inscriptions on the first few flyleaves, including the motto "Dieu defende Le Droit" (God defends the right). This motto has long been associated with the Spencer family of England, which is the family line of Princess Diana, as well as the Spencers who were among the founders of Virginia. The Spencer family's heraldry is included in the manuscript, along with the coats of arms of numerous prominent British families, including the Hasting, Gray, Beuford, and Percye families. There is another similar book of English Heraldry in the British Library, Stowe MS 693, which was also completed at the end of the sixteenth century.
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This map shows some of the routes that had been proposed for a highway through western Canada to Alaska. It also provides a descriptive paragraph of Carcross YT. Type L to enlarge the view.
Bill expected to be sent to Carcross to work as a civilian on the second phase of construction of the Alaska Highway. He was flown into Whitehorse on June 13, 1943. Carcross lies between Whitehorse YT and Skagway, Alaska. Using his pen, he indicated the approximate location of his camp on this map.
This document and more than one hundred letters written by Bill to his wife Helen from Yukon Territories in 1943 are under the care of the Yukon Archives in Whitehorse: www.yukonmuseums.ca/museum/y_archive/y_archive.html
The Elingamite set out from Sydney for Auckland on 5 November 1902, with a crew of 58, carrying 136 passengers and 1,000 tons of cargo. On the 9th she was moving slowly in a thick fog and foundered on the Three Kings. Passengers and crew took to lifeboats. Most were rescued, but 45 lives were lost.
The telegram from the Auckland Collector of Customs announced “Sad news just received that the “Elingamite” is a total wreck on the Three Kings”
Another telegram (transcribed) lists the ships involved in the search for survivors, which included the Greyhound, the Clansman, the Countess of Ranfurly, HMS Penguin the Sterling and the Omapere. The Zealandia, which had also sailed from Sydney, picked up 70 survivors.
The images are taken from Customs records held at Archives New Zealand Auckland Regional Office [Archives reference: BBAO 5544/212/1902/993]
The Wellington Office of Archives New Zealand holds additional files on the wreck of the elingamite, including files on the attempted salvage of the wreck. These files can be searched for using our online finding aid Archway archway.archives.govt.nz/
For further enquiries please email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz
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Title: Telegram from Commissioner Charles J. Rhoads to Mary McGair, 02/01/1932
From: Record Group/Collection: 75
Record Hierarchy Level: Item
Scope and Content Note: This telegram was sent by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles J. Rhoads to special agent Mary C. McGair requesting that McGair meet with the Mission Indian Federation regarding allotments and other matters.
Reference Unit: National Archives at Laguna Niguel
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/2641500
Repository Contact Information: NARA’s Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) (NRHAL), 24000 Avila, 1st Floor East, Laguna Niguel, CA, 92677-3497.
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Title: Order of Seizure from the Case File of U.S. v. Negro Slave Ben, 07/05/1816
From: Record Group/Collection: 21
Record Hierarchy Level: Item
Reference Unit: National Archives at Atlanta
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/2641470
Repository Contact Information: NARA’s Southeast Region (Atlanta) (NRCA), 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, 30260
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File name: 10_03_000388b
Binder label: Baking
Title: Preston & Merrill's Infallible Yeast Powder, unrivaled for strength purity and reliability [back]
Created/Published: N. Y. : Donaldson Brothers
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 8 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Girls; Dogs; Yeast
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Preston & Merrill
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Title: Einwanderungs-Vertrag.
Alternative title: Immigration Contract.
Creator: Fehrmann, Wm.
Date: October 30, 1845
Place: Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Part Of: Collection of Adelsverein documents
Physical Description: 1 sheet (2 pages); 33 x 21 cm
File: vault_a2009_0006_05_opt.pdf
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I'm intrigued by this postcard, bought recently in The Hague. It is written in Italian and I am presuming that it is an Italian soldier, but it is addressed to The Hague (using the French spelling, La Haye).
I can make out quite a bit of it but not enough to understand the significance.
Here's a transcription, with thanks to commenters below:
"Souvenir of the Great War in the years 1915-16-17 and of the Battles of Giulia and Tridentina. On the 16 June 1917"
Then there is a small addition in another hand that appears to read "C Canal ?. Boro". What is the significance? There is a suggestion below that it may be two names.
Interestingly, whilst addressed (seemingly to a Miss Carolina Roman/Romana/Romano) there is no stamp or evidence of posting. Then again, it's not exactly a complete address so I am presuming it was delivered by hand.
"Over the recent years, the world of news and media has been rife with scandal. Deception and corruption have shocked the nation. The need for a serious and reliable news source is crucial to our society, we are at breaking point. Feeling helpless? Wondering ‘what do we do?’
Lancashire has been through some dark times, and there to broadcast these crimes and atrocities has been the ‘ Lancashire Evening Post ’. "
"The Daily Mail's nightmares seem to come true every day of the week …….The world is in danger of collapsing under the supposed threat to civilisation. "
www.facebook.com/pages/Chorley-News-Billboards/2082161592... Chorley News Billboards
Biography
We've all been there, spotted a news billboard outside a paper shop or petrol station and thought "eh, is it a slow news day in Chorley this week" while others are frankly hilarious, brilliantly surreal or just plain bizarre..
Welcome to The Chorley News Billboards Facebook page. It all started several years ago with the now legendary " POLICE HUNT CHORLEY BUM PINCHER' headline circa 2006! Spotted outside a petrol station... Since then we have been keeping an eye on these random news headlines and snapping them with our camera phones and sending them to each other for our own amusement...
After amassing quite a collection we have decided to share these with the good folk of Chorley and invite everyone else to submit their own entries to document life in a 21st century Lancashire Market Town... So camera phones at the ready and keep your eye on the headlines....Check our collection for suitable examples...
Hospital Register
Hospital No. 126, received the first victims of the Chernobyl accident, the basement still harbours some of their radioactive clothing. Shortly after the accident, firefighters arrived to try to extinguish the fires. First on the scene was a Chernobyl Power Station firefighter brigade under the command of Lieutenant Volodymyr Pravik, who died on 9 May 1986 of acute radiation sickness. They were not told how dangerously radioactive the smoke and the debris were.
"We didn't know much about radiation. Even those who worked there had no idea. There was no water left in the trucks. Misha filled a cistern and we aimed the water at the top. Then those boys who died went up to the roof – Vashchik, Kolya and others, and Volodya Pravik.... They went up the ladder ... and I never saw them again".
From eyewitness accounts of the firefighters involved before they died, one described his experience of the radiation as "tasting like metal", and feeling a sensation similar to that of pins and needles all over his face.
Took this image for the hospital's calender project. How to represent cataract?? This is the only idea I could think of.. tight deadline, no idea.. Lol..
Nikon D300s with 105mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Micro
Cpl. David Merwin (1842-1916) letters, Company I, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Gift of Fred D. Merwin
Copyright Massillon Museum
Transcription:
To: Parents
From: David Merwin
Date: August 17, 1863
Black River Bridge, Mississippi
Dear Parents
I received a letter from you this morning also a package of paper. I wrote you a letter yesterday, I filled two sheets full of nonsense. You will get plenty of letters from me now for while we lay here and I have nothing to pass away the time with I will write often.
I am glad you got that money alright, for it is a good ways to send it and then are so many accidents happens on the river. I gave Perry Wiseman money to pay the express charges but he did not do it, it would only have cost a dollar if he had, he said he thought that if the money was lost I would not lose the charges.
Our Major returned from the enemy lines with a flag of truce, Albert Goble (?) was with him. He says they are three miles on this side of Clinton. I did not hear what they went for.
I suppose that we will not be paid for sometime now, on account of the burning of the steamer Reuth (?), with two million five hundred thousand dollars on board. It will be no loss to the Government for if lost, they will never have to be redeemed.
If I had known that there would have been furloughs given, I would not have sent those forty dollars home until I found out whether I would get a furlough or not.
I have received and answered _____ letter I also wrote one to Brownburgers yesterday. I have answered all my letters except one to Gray. Ema owes me one yet, and I have never received that letter that George spoke about writing.
I wrote you a letter telling you to make me a couple of shirts and to send by Johnathan Miller, also a handkerchief and a couple pairs of socks. If you have not got them yet I don’t care if they are half cotton, but I want something good and strong.
What in the world makes you write such little short letters, write often and long letters, write anything at all, papers also are always welcome, you can’t imagine how blue it makes a fellow feel to have a mail come and you running almost to break your neck, and have whoever is distributing it ring out “no mail for you”. Then long days are very _______ , but if a fellow gets a mail, why he can dream of the good things at home and those that are near and dear to him, now write long letters, things that appear uninteresting to you will not appear so to me, but will be interesting to me, tell me of the improvements that are going on about town, and if nothing else will do tell me how often father goes down town of a week and what he buys of a Saturday night. I think that after this long lecture that I will get a good long letter.
Our Lieutenant is a little fellow about the size of the famous Bob F. who says that Cr.S. run a Pittsburgh Landing, though he don’t put on so much style. He has old _____ and a contrary hand to cook and wait upon him.
But here I have written a sheet nearly full and I started to write only a few words. Remember the lecture above and write good long letter to Your Son
David P. Merwin
Charley was learning Burt, a negro, to spell. He asked him what pi spelled, he did not know and Charley asked him what he baked so often, Burt commenced to grin and said Pi back.
Original Caption: Collector Ciran Barney to S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, 09/18/1862
U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: 6016161
Created by: Department of the Treasury. Customs Service. Collection District of New Orleans (Louisiana). (1804 - 1913)
From: Series: Letters Received, compiled 1804 - 1868
Production Date: 09/18/1862
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=6016161
Repository: National Archives at Fort Worth, TX.
Access Restrictions Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
After failing to find any weekly Moleskine diaries or other weekly diaries that I liked the look of and had SUNDAY as the starting date, I gave up and shelled out for a day-per-page diary.
In the process of learning/teaching myself to read, write and speak Japanese. My character writing skills have proved to be somewhat appalling, but I think that's down to me being so used to perfect the glyphs I use when using the English Lexicon. I have about five styles of writing, two of which are formal (one is my usual letter-writing hand, the other is a technical uppercase hand), and although my ascenders and descenders have evolved over the years, the basic principles of my styles have more or less stayed the same.
Please don't steal.
Produced in the early thirteenth-century, this manuscript is an important textual witness to the Historia Anglorum, the History of the English People, by Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon. The first version of Henry of Huntingdon’s text had a terminal date of 1129, though there were four more updates containing events through 1135, 1138, 1148 and 1154. Walters W.793 represents the fourth version, covering the events from Britain’s first leaders up to 1148, in which the number of books is increased from eight to ten and three letters by the author were added. The text contains several colored foliate initials, though it is especially notable for its line drawing of King Stephen (d. 1154), grandson of William the Conqueror, and his earls before the Battle of Lincoln on February 2, 1141 (fol. 105r). It is closely related to British Library Arundel MS 48, which is believed to have been the model from which Walters W.793 was copied. Both copies may have been based on a prototype extant during the life of Henry of Blois (d. 1171). Of the approximately three dozen surviving manuscripts copies of the Historia Anglorum, only eight pre-date W.793. It and Arundel 48 are the only known illustrated exemplars.
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Históricamente significativo e importante informe periódico de la etapa final de los (1811-1824) Guerra de Chile (1810-1826) y de la Independencia del Perú, compilados por las autoridades coloniales españolas. Nuestra copia al parecer perteneció a Joaquín de la Pezuela, primero marqués de Viluma (1761-1830) quien fue un virrey del Perú durante la Guerra de la Independencia: hay una frase manuscrita "Es Copia Pezuela" al final del texto. El documento se divide en tres partes ("Vireinato de Lima", "Ejercito del Perú", y "Reyno de Chile") y se inicia con el informe de avance de las fuerzas realistas (3.400 hombres bajo el mando del general Mariano de Osorio) de Callao a Talcahuano para recuperar Chile. Siga a continuación las descripciones de Batalla de Cancha Rayada (18 de marzo 1818), Batalla de Maipú (5 de abril 1818), el famoso cruce de San Martín de los Andes (enero-febrero de 1817) et al. Una gran parte del texto está dedicado a las acciones de ejército de los realistas en el Alto Perú, bajo el mando de José de la Serna e Hinojosa (1770-1832). El autor informa sobre el número de las fuerzas armadas en diferentes provincias del Vireinato de Lima y ofrece una imagen de la guerra Perú de norte a sur. Muy importante es el extenso material sobre la guerra naval cerca de las costas de Chile y Perú, y las acciones de la Primera Escuadrilla Armada de Chile que se formó en 1817-1818 y, finalmente, "terminan el dominio colonial español en la costa sur-oeste de América del Sur "(Wikipedia). El informe enumera 12 buques de las fuerzas navales de los realistas (Las Fuerzas de mar): fragatas Esmeralda, Cleopatra, Presidenta y Venganza, bergantines Pezuela y Potrillo, corvet Sebastiano et al. Hay notas sobre la condición y la cantidad de armas de fuego de cada recipiente. Una lista separada está dedicada a las naves enemigas y también detalla su artillería: Lautaro y Cumberland (comprado a la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales); corvette Coquimbo (comprado en los EE.UU.), cuatro bergantines, y siete corsarios (anglo-americano y francés) . El documento informa sobre el bloqueo de Valparaíso en marzo-abril de 1818, y las acciones de guerra, por ejemplo, el ataque a la corbeta española Resolución cerca de Callao por la fuerza corsario compuesto por los marineros británicos, americanos, portugueses e irlandeses (19 de octubre). El texto está concluyendo con la noticia de que el refuerzo naval para los realistas se ha apartado de España: Especulation fragata salió de Cádiz el 21 de mayo con 6 oficiales y 200 hombres del Regimiento de Cantabria, que forma parte de un grupo más grande, que se embarcará en Callao y acudir de inmediato a reforzar el ejército del Alto Perú. Frigate Maria Isabel aumentará las fuerzas marítimas destinadas al bloqueo Valparaíso. El autor no tiene ninguna duda de que "Nuestra fuerza marítima debe tener éxito en la destrucción de los rebeldes, y nos dará ventaja en la reconquista de Chile"
This book of English heraldry was completed ca. 1589. The manuscript belonged to the Spencer family, as known through inscriptions on the first few flyleaves, including the motto "Dieu defende Le Droit" (God defends the right). This motto has long been associated with the Spencer family of England, which is the family line of Princess Diana, as well as the Spencers who were among the founders of Virginia. The Spencer family's heraldry is included in the manuscript, along with the coats of arms of numerous prominent British families, including the Hasting, Gray, Beuford, and Percye families. There is another similar book of English Heraldry in the British Library, Stowe MS 693, which was also completed at the end of the sixteenth century.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
Fund raising performance of 'The Geisha' by the Preston and District Amateur Operatic Society. In aid of the V.A.A. Moor Park Hospital and the St. John Field Hospital, France.
Sent by a nurse, Margaret Ripley, to her mother back in England.
As far as I can tell (corrections and additions welcome) this reads:
"11.4.15
Had a lovely walk yesterday afternoon along the sands & again after tea along road & found a garden with daffs & bluebells all growing on the grass among trees!! The roads and canals would be quite pretty but most of the trees are cut down. The guns sounded very near it is strange how clearly from the sea they carry sound. Love Mar"
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File name: 10_03_000513b
Binder label: Beverages
Title: Stanley on the Congo, 'It saved my life' Union Pacific Tea Co's Tea [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 13 x 8 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Explorers; Caricatures; Coffee; Tea; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Union Pacific Tea Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.