Box 5
Container
Contains 9 Results:
Briggs, Abby Crane [daguerreotype in wooden case with identifying note], undated
Item — Box: 5
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:
undated
Briggs, Thomas [daguerreotype in wooden case with identifying note], undated
Item — Box: 5
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:
undated
Briggs, Caroline Crane with child [cased photograph with identifying note and clipped poem], undated
Item — Box: 5
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:
undated
Briggs, Benjamin Bennett [ambrotype in wooden case], undated
Item — Box: 5
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:
undated
Crane, Levi Lee [daguerreotype in wooden case with identifying note], undated
Item — Box: 5
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:
undated
Unidentified cased photograph portrait of a young man, undated
Item — Box: 5
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:
undated
Briggs, Benjamin Bennett and Caroline Crane Briggs [individual ambrotype portraits], undated
Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents
Two portraits
Dates:
undated
Benjamin Bennett Briggs' tools and specimens in small wooden box, undated
Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents
A small, plain wooden box filled with small precision tools and three specimens cast in resin, including a crab and a cricket. The inner lid of the box is branded: "Bowles' Patent / The George P. Pilling & Son Co. / Philadelphia, U.S.A."
Dates:
undated
Spectacles and Eastman thermometer, undated
Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents
Six pairs of spectacles, an Eastman thermometer for general photographic use, and one other small tool found together in an El Roi-Tan cigar box.
Dates:
undated