- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1849 November-1850 March
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 6
- Image Count:
- 115
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of J. G. Bruff]
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- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1849 December-1850 February
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 7
- Image Count:
- 50
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Description:
- In two sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately by the cataloger. and Volume contains text written in both directions.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of J. G. Bruff]
- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1850 April-June
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 8
- Image Count:
- 28
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of J. G. Bruff]
- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1850 August
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 9
- Image Count:
- 24
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of J. G. Bruff]
- Creator:
- Bell, John G., 1812-1879
- Published / Created:
- [1843] August 2-7
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1752
- Collection Title:
- Diaries of an expedition with John James Audubon
- Image Count:
- 32
- Abstract:
- Holograph manuscript diaries kept by John G. Bell during his participation in John James Audubon’s Missouri River expedition in 1843. This volume also contains longer entries, possibly drafts, for August 2-7, with additional accounts, lists, and notes.
- Description:
- Contains several pages at end, in reverse orientation, badly rubbed and mostly illegible. and Some blank pages throughout not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Missouri River Valley --Description and travel and Yellowstone River Valley --Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting, Natural history --Missouri River Valley, and Natural history --Yellowstone River Valley
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of an expedition with John James Audubon]
56.
- Creator:
- Frush, Wm. H. (William H.)
- Published / Created:
- [1850]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 206
- Collection Title:
- Overland journey across the Plains to Oregon /by William H. Frush, 1850-1852
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- In 1850 Frush traveled from Missouri to Oregon by way of St. Joseph, Blue River, the North Platte, and Fort Laramie, where he met his brother John and Kit Carson. They continued by South Pass, Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, the Dalles, and Portland. He records graves, the names and homes of other travelers, and ends his account with events in Oregon. The diary contains drawings of Chimney Rock, Court House Rock, profile of the Snake River, and a map of the Burnt River.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Oregon --Baker County --Maps, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, and West (U.S.) --Maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selected pages]
- Published / Created:
- 1825-1828
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 533
- Collection Title:
- Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering’s Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom
- Image Count:
- 27
- Abstract:
- The journal describes the 1825-28 voyage of the ship Blossom from Spithead, Isle of Wright to Cape Horn, Chile, the Society and Hawaiian islands, then Kamchatka and the Bering Sea. The ship went back by way of California, Hawaii, the Philipines, and China. The ship continues through Awats Bay, Bering Strait, to San Francisco, Mexico, Chile, around Cape Horn to Brazil, the Azores,and Spithead. Appendices include notes of Blossom’s other voyages, an Esquimaux vocabulary, and star and weather readings.
- Description:
- Blanks not included in pagination.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Pacific Ocean --Exploring expeditions
- Subject (Name):
- Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856, Blossom (Ship), and Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
- Subject (Topic):
- Meteorological records--19th century, Northwest Passage, and Voyages around the world
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Title and selected pages]
58.
- Creator:
- Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1680
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 100
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Imperfect: sections of manuscript wanting.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatise ...]
- Published / Created:
- 1562
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 40
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
- Description:
- Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled Kunstbuechlein]