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MS 170/604 : Narrative of Her Captivity in Barbary, 1756. Journal of a Voyage by Sea from Calcutta to Madras, and of a Journal from there back to Dacca. (December 13, 1774-June 20,1775) / Marsh, Elizabeth Crisp

Description:: Dates of execution from Elizabeth Marsh's journal, dated, presumably in her own hand, Dec. 13, 1774-June 20, 1776. Bound with a copy of her captivity narrative in the hand of her brother John Marsh. The captivity narrative, an account of the seven months in 1756 she was held in Morocco as prisoner of the sultan Sidi Muhammad, has title "Narrative written by Miss Elizabeth Marsh during her captivity in Barbary in the year 1756."
Date:: 1756-1775
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

A journal of a voyage to the South seas, in His Majesty’s ship the Endeavor...[1784]

Description:: Full title:A journal of a voyage to the South seas, in His Majesty’s ship the Endeavor: faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Prksin, draughstman to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. in his expedition with Dr. Solander round the world ... To which is now added, Remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill ... and an appendix, containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke
Date:: 1784
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

MS 170/587: Lectures on Chemistry by Doctor Black and Doctor Hope taken by Lovell Edgeworth

Description:: In most of the manuscript, text is only written on one side of each page.
Date:: 1796
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

MS 170/650: Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by himself, and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth.

Date:: 1844
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

MS 170/339: Record of the voyage of the transport Loo Choo from New York to San Francisco

Description:: Record of the voyage of the transport Loo Choo from New York to San Francisco carrying units of Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1st New York Volunteer Regiment to participate in the military conquest of California. Included are descriptions of life aboard the vessel, in San Francisco and at Santa Barbara, where the troops were on garrison duty.
Date:: September 26, 1846-July 3, 1847
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

170/508: Disenos : maps and plans of ranchos of Southern California, mostly within Los Angeles and Orange counties

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: 1852
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

California

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: 1853
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the West Indies with Central America, showing all the routes to California with a table of distances [cover]

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: 1854
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

The grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament.

Description:: "Books referred to for illustrations, literary and pictorial": 1 p. preceding pl. LXXIV.
Date:: 1856
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Bancroft's map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona [cover]

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: circa 1864
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Yosemite photographs by Muybridge

Description:: Binder’s title.
Date:: circa 1867
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Yosemite photographs by Carleton E. Watkins

Description:: Copyrighted by C.E. Watkins in 1867
Date:: 1867
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features, of portions of the western territory of the United States...

Description:: At head of title: War department, Corps of engineers, U.S. army.
Date:: 1873 [?]
Photographer:: Bell, William
O’Sullivan, Timothy H.
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Photographs of the Yellowstone National Park and views in Montana and Wyoming territories

Description:: Each photograph accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press. Desscriptive letter-press information has been included as the caption for each photograph.
Date:: 1873
Photographer:: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Map of Rancho La Ballona, Centinela Rancho, Inglewood, Sausal Redondo Rancho, Los Angeles Trust Co. Land, Walnut and Bean Land Co. and Playa del Mar

Description:: Scale: 1:24,800
Date:: circa 1880
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

Map of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, state of Nevada, showing the latest changes up to Jan. 1875

Description:: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights
Date:: 1875
Resource Type:: still image
cartographic
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Griffith, Griffith J., naturalization certificate, 1877

Description:: Certificate of act of naturalization for Griffith J. Griffith, a native of Wales, signed October 22, 1877, in San Francisco, CA.
Date:: October 22, 1877
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

170/24: Gillette, Gibson and Wood, firm, examiners of titles in Los Angeles.

Description:: Abstract of title of that certain real property in the county of Los Angeles, state of California, bound and described as follows : Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres
Date:: November 6, 1883-June 29, 1887
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

MS 170/13: Gillette and Gibson Firm, Examiners of Titles in Los Angeles.

Description:: Continuation by the Title Insurance and Trust Company (p. [288]-291), dated "... this 29th day of January, 1894 ..." (p. 291)Pagination after p. 285 incorrect on item; final 6 leaves have been numbered by leaf rather than by page
Date:: March 6, 1884-January 29, 1894
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Faust's map of city and county of San Francisco California

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: circa 1892
Resource Type:: still image
cartographic
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

MS 170/25: Gillette, Gibson and Wood, firm, examiners of titles in Los Angeles

Description:: Physical Description: Document. 129pp.
Date:: October 26, 1887-August 10, 1889
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Plan of Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California

Description:: Current and future cable railway lines indicated. Caption in lower left corner: "Redondo Beach Co., capital: $3,000,000"
Date:: 1888
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

Lands of the Hemet Land Company in San Jacinto Valley situated in sections

Description:: Includes ancillary map: "Map of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego & Orange Counties"
Date:: circa 1894
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

The Conquest of the Moon : a story of the Bayouda / by A. Laurie ; with numerous illustrations

Description:: Special Collections copy binding: Blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt.
Date:: 1889
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Annotated sleeve for a negative of the gate to the Street of the Tombs in Athens taken by William Sachtleben, 1891

Description:: William Lewis Sachtleben stayed in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Note accompanying negatives for photographs taken by William Lewis Sachtleben during his trip to Turkey to search for missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

William Lewis Sachtleben Athens travel diary

Description:: Entries in pen and ink
Date:: January 3, 1891-February 5, 1891
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Diaries

William Lewis Sachtleben Turkey travel diary

Description:: William Lewis Sachtleben’s diary, notebook “No. 10”, covers a portion of their journey through the Armenian area of Turkey from April 12 to May 9 (there is a 2-page reading list at the end). During this time they rode from Ankara (Angora in the diary) to Sivas, to Merzifon (Mersovan in the diary).
Date:: April 12, 1891-May 9, 1891
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Diaries

Africa. European possessions in 1885, after the Berlin Conference

Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

Africa : accurata tabula

Description:: Relief shown pictorially
Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

Africa according to Pigafetta, 1591

Description:: Relief shown pictorially.
Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

Africa. European possessions in 1884, before the Berlin Conference

Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

List of photographs of "Broussa" by William Sachtleben taken during his trip to Turkey to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

List of photographs by William Lewis Sachtleben in and near Trabzon, Turkey, during his trip to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Inscribed envelope for negatives taken by William Sachtleben near Trabzon, Turkey, probably taken during his trip to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum. Sachtleben's 1891 photographs of his bicycle tour across Asia have a circular format.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

List of photographs by William Lewis Sachtleben taken during his trip to Turkey to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: Handwritten list of photographs taken by William Lewis Sachtleben.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

List of photographs of "Broussa" by William Sachtleben taken during his trip to Turkey to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Deed from Harry J. and Annie L. Pinney to J. Edward Goodell

Date:: March 19, 1896
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Deed of Rancho Los Feliz from Griffith J. Griffith and his wife to the city of Los Angeles

Description:: Typescript copy
Date:: March 5, 1898
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Farmhouse in Red Bird, Oklahoma

Description:: Farmhouse in a field.
Date:: [circa 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Red Bird, Oklahoma glass plate negatives.

Griffth, Griffith J., typescript copy of letter to his son, San Quentin Prison, December 20, 1905

Date:: December 20, 1905
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Map of Los Angeles

Description:: Caption above map: "Los Angeles Investment Company, largest real estate and investment company in Western America and largest co-operative building company in the world"
Date:: circa 1913
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

Tolstoy, Leo, autograph letter signed to "Dear Sir," [e.g. Griffith J. Griffith], Jasnaja Poliana 3/16 April 1910

Description:: The letter was written from Tolstoy's home Yasnaya Polyana in Russia, and is dated in both the Julian and Gregorian styles.
Date:: April 3/16 1910
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Los Angeles Herald newspaper article, Dec. 31, 1910

Description:: Article entitled "Angeleno Prizes Tolstoy's Letter: Probably Last of Sage's Communications Was Received by Griffith J. Griffith." Includes facsimilie of letter.
Date:: December 31, 1910
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973