Letters from Timothy Pickering to his brother and father, 1797-1798

These two handwritten letters by Timothy Pickering were written on February 14, 1797 and June 14, 1798 to his brother John Pickering and his father Timothy Pickering, respectively. The letter to his brother, John, discusses mutual friends, classmate Thomas Lee, and John’s recent attendance at a sermon by Dr. Joseph Priestley. The letter from Timothy to his father includes a discussion of Timothy’s expenses and the amount of money needed to pay his debts, a request for new shoes for commencement, the news of Timothy’s invitation to join honor society Phi Beta Kappa, and a few comments on his forensics course at Harvard.

Los Angeles, California, 1849 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles, surveyed & drawn by E.O.C. Ord, Lt., U.S.A. & Wm. R. Hutton, asst., August 29th 1849. It was published by the Historical Society of Southern California ca. 1930. Scale [ca. 1:6,330] . Facsimile of a manuscript map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California State Plane Zone V Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 0405). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, block and lot numbers, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Historical records and studies.

Vols. 1-6 issued in 2 parts, continuously paged.

Studies of the Niagara frontier,

Appendix: Proceedings of the Buffalo historical society, 1911, p. [401]-422.

Report of Social Welfare in Kansas

Mode of access: Internet.

Oregon historical quarterly.

Mode of access: Internet.

Transactions of the Department of agriculture of the state of Illinois with reports from county agricultural societies for the year.

Title varies slightly.

The Journal of the Michigan State Dental Association

Includes directory issues

William Allen; a study in western democracy,

Bibliography: p. 264-274.

Westerville in the American tradition /

"Sponsored by the corporation of Westerville."

State water plan studies.

Includes bibliographies.

Kansas agriculture; annual report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Archives of Maryland.

Editors: 1883-1912, W. H. Browne; 1913-15, C. C. Hall; 1916- B. C. Steiner.

Miscellany. Lane collections pamphlets.

Binder's title.

Mid-America; an historical review

Mode of access: Internet.