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Box 1

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Admission Ticket, 1868 - 1869

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Content

Ticket to Bellevue Hospital Medical College, City of New York, Session 1868-69, Lectures "The Principles and Practice of Medicine"

Dates: 1868 - 1869

College Commencement Invitation , 1903

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Content

Wabash College, Crawfodsville, Indiana, June 12-17, 1903; in envelope addressed to Rev., & Mrs. S.L. Ward & Family; insert: Mr. Benjamin Briggs Ward

Dates: 1903

Promissory Note, 1916

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Content

February 28, 1916, in the amount of $1300, to the Bank of Glendale, signed Irene B. Ward

Dates: 1916

Receipt, 1866

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Content

in German, Heidelberg, 31.??? 1866; Briggs

Dates: 1866

Register Ticket, 1883

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 36
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"Registered on the Great Register," County of Los Angeles, to B.B. Briggs, May 25, 18(?)3

Dates: 1883

Testimony of Appreciation [original], 15 February 1875

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Scope and Content

Certificate, form Wabash College, February 15, 1875, acknowledgment of Dr. B.B. Briggs as a "gentleman of great[?] worth and a physician of great[?] ability."

Dates: 15 February 1875

Testimony of Appreciation [facsimile], 1875

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 38
Scope and Content From the Collection: This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates: 1875

Facsimiles

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 39
Scope and Content From the Collection: This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates: 1836 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1920

Leaflet: "Sunday Postal Labour"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 42
Scope and Content

Sabbath Observance Society, Edinburgh

Dates: 1836 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1920