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Collection of Menu Cards from New York City and New York State

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-522
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of some 100 menu cards from a variety of New York City and New York State functions. Many of the cards are highly decorated. The celebratory luncheons and dinners include those of: ordinary Thanksgiving functions; The Sons of the Revolution, 1776-1883; the Annual Subscription Dinner, St. Patricks Dinner, 1900; First Annual Banquet of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, which was held at the Hotel Manhattan, 2 February 1857; 132nd Annual Banquet of...
Dates: 1888-1901

Collection of menu cards from the Alaska Steamship Co., and the S.S. 'Alaska'

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1555, Folder: Coll-1786 / SC-Acc-2016-0166
Identifier: Coll-1786
Scope and Contents Assorted menus of breakfast, lunch and dinner meals served on board the S.S. Alaska from 24 June 1932 and 3 July 1932.The menus (14) offer typical American fare of the period (1932) and were illustrated with totem poles, mountainous scenes, and images of outdoor activities such as canoeing, hunting, horseback riding and panning for gold.On the reverse side of the menu cards are scenic photographs taken by Alaska-based professional...
Dates: 1932

Collection of music

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1179
Scope and Contents

The item contains musical notation to some short pieces including: 'White wings'; 'Dinah Doe'; duet from 'Ruddigore''; the 'Reel of Tulloch'; 'The Happy Fatherland'; and, 'Mia bella'.

Dates: 1888

Collection of Notes of Surgical Cases arising from the Military Action of British Troops in Spain

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-500
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notes of surgical cases arising from military action of British troops in Spain, 1832-1833, and notes of cases in the general military hospital of San Telmo, San Sebastian, arising from military action of British troops, 1836-1837. There is also a volume of statistical returns of sick and wounded admitted to the military hospitals of the Legion in Spain, 1835-1837.

Dates: 1832-1837

Collection of Old Scots Tunes [...] Set and most humbly dedicated to the Right Honorable Lady Erskine, by Francis Barsanti

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1687
Scope and Contents The content of the work is: 'Dumbarton's Drums', Kat Oggie', 'Ettrick Banks', 'Lochaber', 'The Lass of Peatie's mill', 'The Highland Laddie', 'Busk ye buske ye my bonny bride', 'The last time I came o'er the moor', 'Corn riggs are bonny', 'Waly waly', 'Johnnie Faa', 'Lord Aboyne's welcome or Cumbernauld House', 'The Bush aboon Traquair', 'To danton me', 'The Birks of Envermay', 'Fife and all the Lands about it', 'Peggy I must love thee', 'Logan water', 'Pinkie House', 'The Sutours of...
Dates: 1742

Collection of Papers of Alexander Ramsay Mackenzie (1879-1929) and Eliza Jane Mackenzie (1879-1977)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 19
Scope and Contents The collection consists of: material relating to Chinese phonetics including "alphabet blocks" and the New Testament in Chinese phonetic script (c 1920s); some further items relating to the Mackenzies' time in Manchuria, these are mainly artefacts or printed reports and pamphlets (1920s-1951); a small amount of correspondence about and reports on the mission including correspondence with Chinese Christians from the 1960s; lecture and other notes by Ellie Mackenzie on theological and mission...
Dates: [ca. 1906]-2001

Collection of Photographs of American Scenes

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-462
Scope and Contents The collection of photographs is composed of American and some Canadian scenes and shows: a series of views of a camping trip to Lake Muskoka in 1899; Moon River Falls; domestic farm animals; walnut bins; a picnic party; Grant's Tomb in 1896, and views of the old Grant's Tomb; photographs of New York City including Battery Park, Broadway, and Lower Broadway; home interiors in Santa Paula, California; Cliff House, San Francisco; the Old Spanish Mission, Santa Barbara; and a picture of Toronto...
Dates: 1895-1900

Collection of Photographs of Persia (Iran), 1874

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-797
Scope and Contents

The photographs held in a decorated binder, include those of: Venus passing the sun over Iran, December 1874; the interior of the observatory at Isfahan (Ispahan); the astronomical station Baugh-i-Zerecht; bridge at Sende-Roud; a city gate; the Maidan of Isfahan; the Mosquee Royale, Tomb of Ali, and other mosques; views in Qum; and views in other Iranian cities.

Dates: 1874

Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-704
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of circa 43 black and white photographs, many of them duplicated, of severed limbs and bones, bodies in decomposition, skull and cranial features, foot casts, shoes and other personal effects. There are tracing paper sketches of skull dimensions, feet, and bone cross-sections.

Dates: 1935-1936

Collection of Photographs taken in Portuguese Nyasaland (Northern Mozambique) 1920-1921

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-703
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of circa 24 mounted photographs, on paper, with descriptions, of parts of Portuguese Nyasaland, now northern Mozambique. They show: a caravan leaving Port Amelia (Pemba) on the Indian Ocean ; the residence of the Portuguese magistrate; geology of the area; a well; Queen Cona, chief of the Medo Makuas; the interior bush country; coconut plantation; the Union Castle liner 'Gaika' off Port Amelia; damage after a cyclone; a Banian dhow in Pemba Bay; and, views of Pemba...
Dates: 1920-1922

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