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Relief association minutes and Red Cross minutes: volume
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Joseph Cross letters
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Two autograph letters from Joseph Cross to his parents. The first letter, dated Dec. 7, 1806 (HM 62947), was written from Fort Michilimackinac. Cross describes an expedition in which he and a group of soldiers searched for and rescued nine soldiers who went missing while taking supplies to Fort Saint Joseph. Cross found the men on a "desart island," starving to death and contemplating "the horrid plan of killing and eating one of their number." He then proceeds to list the adventures that he had since his last letter home, including traveling "396 miles up Lake Michigan among the Indians," descending "the celebrated Falls of St. Mary in an Indian canoe," being shot at by two Indian "centinels" and "blown up in a gun room" after the stored ammunition caught on fire. He was injured in the last incident, but "owing to the skill and great attention of our Surgeon and good health and constitution" made full recovery, "without a scar."
mssHM 62947-62948
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California Avocado Association minutes
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The minutes cover several meetings of the association's board of directors from 1915 to 1916. The minutes contain the by-laws of the association, the names of its board members, its purpose, and its change of name. Included with the manuscript is a photograph of Calavo Growers of California's employees picking avocados (c.1924).
mssHM 68056
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Hospital Building Association minutes
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The volume contains the meeting minutes (and the By-Laws) of the Hospital Building Association from 1895 to 1904. Although the first several pages consist of handwritten text, the majority of the volume contains items glued into the pages including: typed notes, pieces of correspondence, and clippings. The minutes deal with the activities of the association as well as its finances. The volume also contains the minutes of the Los Angeles College Clinic Association from 1905 to 1923.
mssHM 74858