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Politics, Government, and Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1673 Collections and/or Records:

Memories of an Army nurse in World War II, 1944-1945

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341189]
Identifier: MSS 2609
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Ora Mae Sorensen was born in 1922 in Taylor, Texas and married Edmond Preston Hyatt in 1945. Many letters addressed to family memers have been typed into the autobiography which largely describes her military service as a nurse. She served mainly in the Pacific area.

Dates: 2002

Bernardino de Mendoza letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323278]
Identifier: MSS SC 2395
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters. The items relate to the diplomatic activies of Spain. Most of the material is in some kind of diplomatic code to assure that the letters would not be understood if they fell into the wrong hands. In the appendix (pp. 231-239) of his "Diplomacy and Dogmatism: Bernardino de Mendoza and the French Cahtolic League" De Lamar Jensen presents an explanation of how the code may be read.

Dates: 1584-1585

Menominee tribal roll

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 512
Scope and Contents Holograph document recording of names of 398 Menominee Indians in 1872. These individuals were the heads of households. Numbers of men, women, and children of each household are also presented. The roll was also a financial record indicating how much each family unit was paid by the US government on 13 Sept. 1872. The total sum recorded is $6718.69. The payment is believed to have been for Menominee lands in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Two photocopies of these documents are also with...
Dates: 1872-1980

Message of the President of the United States respecting the relations with Chile

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230356476]
Identifier: MSS 7513
Scope and Contents Book issued by the United States government containing a message of the President of the United States respecting relations with Chile together with the diplomatic correspondence; the correspondence with naval officials; the inquiry into the attack of the seamen of the U.S.S. Baltimore in the streets of Valparaiso; and the evidence of the officers and crew of the steamer Keweenaw respecting the ill-treatment of Patrick Shields by the Chilean police. The book was published by the Washington...
Dates: Date not identified

Mexican-American War collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 699
Scope and Contents

Various military documents and papers created during the obtaining and dispersal of supplies to troops. Also includes miscellaneous documents and correspondence.

Dates: 1847-1895

Stella Reichenberg Meyer diaries and notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 1388
Scope and Contents Includes photocopies of a handwritten diary and notebook, dated 1913 to 1932 and 1914 to 1923 respectively, and a travel diary dated March-August 1953. The first two items are only in German, and the last is in English and German. These materials describe the frustrations, fears, and survival of Jews and other Germans during the Weimar Republic and Hitler eras. Also included are copied letters and a description of a trip to and around Europe (especially Germany, describing the...
Dates: 1913-1953

Manuel Micheltorena application for naturalization

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317387]
Identifier: MSS SC 1874
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten application for citizenship to Mexico. The petition was made in Monterey, California in 1844.

Dates: 1844

Alva Mickelsen papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230219724]
Identifier: MSS 1814
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, certificates, budgets, and legislative papers. The materials relate to Mickelsen's work as mayor and councilman in Holtville.

Dates: 1936-1977

Nelson Appleton Miles letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308170]
Identifier: MSS SC 1023
Scope and Contents 24 items: 20 handwritten letters; 1 typewritten letter; 1 printed program from an 1877 banquet in his honor; and a 1935 newspaper account detailing his campaign against the Indians in 1876. Two letters are undated. Most are addressed to Lieutenant (later Captain) Frank D. Baldwin. Letters contain requests for supplies and teamsters in preparation for his Indian campaigns; a report on an engagement with the Sioux under Sitting Bull in December 1876; and other personal and official...
Dates: 1875-1898

Nelson Appleton Miles letters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233293957]
Identifier: Vault MSS 669
Scope and Contents

Five handwritten letters and one typed letter, all signed by Miles. They deal primarily with military matters. One item is addressed to Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), President of the United States, and another to Frank D. Baldwin.

Dates: 1878-1898