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83 fragments in this cut.

The Iphigenia (1912) (11)
  • iph-01 — S.S. IPHIGENIA — DECK LOG — CAPT. R. HUME, MASTER Wk. end. 9 Nov 1912 — 1st Mate E. McCausland recording. [p. 114 — upper third water-staine
  • iph-02 — IN THE MATTER OF THE LOSS OF THE S.S. IPHIGENIA Port Hume County Coroner's Inquest, Day 4 — 11 January 1913 Coroner: Dr. Malcolm Herrick. Cl
  • iph-03 — [Carbon copy, typewritten. "KILLED — 3 Feb '13 — BND" stamped diagonally in red across page 1. Editor's marginalia in blue pencil.] THE IPHI
  • iph-04 — [From K. Dannemeyer's reporter's notebook, boarding house room, Elm St. Pages undated; sequence approximate.] p. 43. S.P. [Sarah P.] says F.
  • iph-05 — [A document of four pages, sewn at the spine with coarse thread. First page in Zofia Malinowski's hand in English, laboriously neat. Margina
  • iph-06 — CHAPTER XIV The Storm of 1912 from THE HUME DYNASTY: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Percival Reeves. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924. Of the gr
  • iph-07 — [On Hume House stationery, small sheet, Edmund's hand. Black ink, careful.] Hume House Vanderlin Row Port Hume, December the Fourteenth, 191
  • iph-08 — MUTUAL MARINE UNDERWRITERS OF BUFFALO Claims Division — File No. 1912-PH-4417 Policy No. HS-0918, HUME SHIPPING COMPANY, INSURED Vessel: S.S
  • iph-09 — [From the household ledger of Maeve McCausland, the Ward, Port Hume. Selected entries. Accounts pages mixed with diary pages; only the diary
  • iph-10 — [Deposition of "John Timmons, cabin steward, late of S.S. Iphigenia," taken by the Port Hume County Coroner's clerk J.A. Fairfax, 4 January
  • iph-11 — [A bifolded program printed on heavy cream card. Engraved heraldry of the Hume Shipping Company at top of front cover. Period typography.] O
The Death of Cornelius Thorpe (1919) (10)
  • cth-01 — COUNTY OF PORT HUME — CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Form 1914-A Name of Deceased: CORNELIUS ALBRIGHT THORPE. Sex: Male. Color: White. Conjugal: Marri
  • cth-02 — [From the 1919 volume of Stefania Pytel's nurse's notebook. Kept in a locked drawer at her boarding room behind St. Casimir's. Polish and En
  • cth-03 — [Draft letter on Blackwell Iron Works letterhead, single sheet, foolscap. Cornelius's hand in black ink. No envelope; unsent. Word "DRAFT" w
  • cth-04 — [A single ledger page, ruled in blue, on Doyle's Saloon backroom stock paper. No letterhead. Heading in pencil at top: "J.C.T. — running."]
  • cth-05 — [From the diary of Ottilie Thorpe, 1919. Morocco-bound, clasp not locked. Selected entries. Ink black, hand firm.] Saturday, 14 September 19
  • cth-06 — [From Det. Henry Ostermann's private notebook, 1919 volume. Case heading at top of first relevant page.] THORPE, CORNELIUS A. — 12 Sept 1919
  • cth-07 — [Typewritten carbon, blue-paper, with red editor's marks and personal pencil annotations. Typed on a Royal No. 10.] THE BEACON — CITY DESK —
  • cth-08 — [Single paragraph from THE HUME DYNASTY: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Percival Reeves. Scribner, 1924. Chapter XIX, "Rivals and Peers," p. 318.] Of t
  • cth-09 — [Letter on cream correspondence paper, monogrammed "A.T.C." A single sheet, doubled. Augusta's hand. Posted with a two-cent stamp.] 411 The
  • cth-10 — [A page from Pemberton's Drugs dispensing ledger, 1919 volume, Aug-Sept entries. Ruled columns: DATE / ITEM / QTY / Rx or CASH / CUSTOMER /
The Blackwell Strike Violence (1922) (9)
  • bwk-01 — [Clipping from the Port Hume Beacon of Thursday, 20 July 1922. Front page, three columns above the fold.] VIOLENCE AT BLACKWELL GATES Three
  • bwk-02 — [Clipping from the Port Hume Clarion of Tuesday, 25 July 1922. Page one, below a two-column photograph of the funerals at St. Casimir's.] TH
  • bwk-03 — [From Det. Henry Ostermann's private notebook, 1922 volume.] BLACKWELL STRIKE — 18 July 1922. Three dead. Called to the scene at 1:47 p.m. O
  • bwk-04 — [Carbon copy, patrolman's report, Port Hume City Police Form 22. Reilly's hand has typed this on a Corona Personal No. 3; the carbon is some
  • bwk-05 — [From Father Jarzembek's sermon files. Written in brown ink on the back of a parish circular form. Main text in Polish; rendered in English
  • bwk-06 — [A clerk's photograph, on silver gelatin paper, of two items: (1) a page from the Cadenza & Sons Consulting Services pay-book, 1922 volu
  • bwk-07 — [Halina Vasko's letter to her older sister in Kraków, dated 14 August 1922. The English translation by Irena Nowak.] Little Warsaw, Port Hum
  • bwk-08 — [Single sentence from THE HUME DYNASTY: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Percival Reeves. Scribner, 1924. Chapter XIX, "Rivals and Peers," p. 329. Embedd
  • bwk-09 — [A four-page pamphlet, printed in purple ink on the mimeograph of the I.W.W. local. Rough paper. Cover: a simple black border around the tit
The Death of Father Jarzembek (1923) (11)
  • jar-01 — [Carbon copy, patrolman's report, Port Hume City Police Form 22. Corona Personal No. 3. Filed night of 14 Oct 1923.] PORT HUME CITY POLICE —
  • jar-02 — [Port Hume City Police Form 22, typed clean, retained as official record of incident. Case file: Jarzembek, Wiktor — 14 October 1923 — close
  • jar-03 — [Port Hume County Coroner — Report of Death. Form CRN-17. Filed 15 October 1923.] DECEDENT. Jarzembek, Wiktor. Male. Age 60 years. Place of
  • jar-04 — [Clipping from the Port Hume Clarion of Wednesday, 17 October 1923. Page three, two columns. Byline in italic below the head.] FATHER JARZEM
  • jar-05 — PORT HUME CITY POLICE — WITNESS STATEMENT File: Jarzembek, W. — 14 Oct 1923 — Case closed 18 Oct 1923. Witness: Halina Vasko, widow, of 23 K
  • jar-06 — PORT HUME CITY POLICE — WITNESS STATEMENT File: Jarzembek, W. — 14 Oct 1923. Case closed 18 Oct 1923. Witness: Paweł Korzeniowski, proprieto
  • jar-07 — [Two sets of handwritten notes from Father Jarzembek's sermon drawer at St. Casimir's. Brown ink. Mostly Polish with Latin tags. Rendered he
  • jar-08 — [Two letters, clipped together in Irena Nowak's correspondence folder. The first is a carbon of Nowak's own letter, sent via international p
  • jar-09 — [A slim ledger book, canvas-bound, kept by the Women's Sodality presidents of St. Casimir's since 1904. The 1919-1923 entries reproduced as
  • jar-10 — [A single sheet of foolscap, ruled vertically into three columns. Headed in Polish in Jarzembek's hand. Rendered here with the headings in E
  • jar-11 — [A note in Father Lukasz Kruszewski's private drawer at the rectory of St. Casimir's. Polish, rendered in English translation. Dated 11 Febr
The Sealed Correspondence (1891→1899→ongoing) (8)
  • box-01 — [Excerpt from Chapter XVI, "A Life Cut Short," in THE HUME DYNASTY: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Percival Reeves. Scribner, 1924, pp. 264-267. Openin
  • box-02 — [From the household ledger of Clara Westbrook, The Crescent, Port Hume, 1899 volume. The 9th of April entries, with the day's other entries
  • box-03 — [A letter on heavy cream paper, folded in thirds, with a crease worn nearly to a hole along one fold. Mrs. Vickers's hand, shaky from illnes
  • box-04 — [Clipping from the Port Hume Clarion of Sunday supplement, 13 April 1919. Page seven. Sepia photograph of a young August at Yale, with a yea
  • box-05 — [A letter on Hume House letterhead, short, in Edmund's hand. In the Tanner Collection at the Hume Polytechnic Library, marked RESTRICTED per
  • box-06 — [Two catalog cards from the Hume Polytechnic Library's card catalog, Tanner Collection (accession 1921-T). Typed on a standard library card
  • box-07 — [A single sheet, on Burwell & Grey letterhead, among a sheaf of practice-sale documents in Dr. David Linden's office safe at 14 The Cres
  • box-08 — [Accession record from the Hume Polytechnic Library's manuscript and rare-book collection, 1921 acquisitions. Catalog card.] HUME POLYTECHNI
The Prohibition Arrangement (1920→) (10)
  • pro-01 — [Internal memorandum on Cadenza & Sons letterhead. One page, typed.] CADENZA & SONS Machine Tools and Munitions Parts Ironside, Port
  • pro-02 — [Pocket notebook, black leatherette, Harbourmaster's office issue. In Sven Gunderson's careful hand. Entries dated; names rendered as initia
  • pro-03 — [Letter on plain writing paper, Buffalo postmark, addressed to Miss S. Pellman, The Port Hume Beacon, 14 Main St., Port Hume. Hand-delivered
  • pro-04 — [One page from the Hume Shipping Company Pension Ledger, 1921 volume, as extracted for a routine internal audit. The audit was performed by
  • pro-05 — [One page from the Hume Shipping Company weekly payroll book, Stevedore Gangs, 1920 volume. Extract covering gang M. (Morrissey), weeks 28 t
  • pro-06 — [A small slip of paper, a pre-printed "CASH DELIVERY RECEIPT — HUME SHIPPING COMPANY" form. Filled out in ink. Filed by mistake in the May 1
  • pro-07 — [From Det. Henry Ostermann's private notebooks. Section labeled "Prohibition observations, from Jan 1920." Representative entries.] From 17
  • pro-08 — [Selected entries from Moses Tallant's private journal, 1922-1923. Hand-written on ruled paper, bound in buckram. His own shorthand condense
  • pro-09 — [Clipping from the Port Hume Clarion of Monday, 15 January 1923. Letters column, page 6.] TO THE EDITOR, FROM A CITIZEN OF THE HEIGHTS A Sma
  • pro-10 — [Clipping from the Port Hume Beacon of Sunday, 13 August 1922. Sunday Feature Section, page 3. Headline three columns wide.] PORT HUME AND T
Cross-Mystery Papers (16)
  • int-adela-poem — [From Poetry: A Magazine of Verse vol. XVIII, no. 5, August 1921, pp. 282-283. The poem appears on the recto page; facing verso carries a sh
  • int-brecht-books — [Three small leather-bound volumes, kept in a false panel at the back of the bottom drawer of Brecht's desk at Cadenza & Sons, Ironside.
  • int-calder-carbons — [A single sheet of stenographer's paper, typed double-spaced, with occasional pencil amendments. Folded and kept on top of the fireproof cab
  • int-dannemeyer-fired — [On Port Hume Beacon management stationery, small sheet, Vantine's private letterhead. Typed by Vantine's personal secretary (not the newsro
  • int-hargrave-library — [From Millicent Hargrave-Thwaite's private library catalog, a bound three-volume set hand-indexed in her own precise hand. Volume II, "Port
  • int-ingersoll-paper — [Excerpt from "Ectoplasmic Phenomena in Contemporary Mediumship: An Analysis of a Photographic Record," by Prof. Martin J. Ingersoll, Hume P
  • int-keane-ledger — [A single page from Donal Keane's private ledger book, kept in an iron strongbox built into the back-room wall at Doyle's Saloon. Leather-bo
  • int-korzybski-note — [Handwritten letter in Polish, on cheap writing paper, one sheet folded. Clipped to it, a typed English translation by Irena Nowak (undated,
  • int-maeve-schedule — [Typescript carbon, single sheet, on Hume Shipping Company letterhead. Marked in red ink in an upper corner: "WITHDRAWN PER MR. E.H. — 14/12
  • int-matteo-letter — [Letter on standard US Army letterhead, written in the field in France. Matteo's hand, careful, with the small irregularities of a man writi
  • int-pellman-cabinet — [A single sheet of typewriting paper, folded, at the front of the top drawer of a steel four-drawer filing cabinet in Sarah Pellman's flat a
  • int-penn-book — [From Mrs. Adelaide Penn's personal household account book, Hume House, 1895-1898. Black buckram, pencil-ruled, Penn's careful hand. Kept in
  • int-philip-letter — [A sealed envelope addressed in Philip Westbrook's hand to "Mr. J. Leland Gray, Princeton Club of New York, 15 West 43rd Street, New York Ci
  • int-solange-cafe — [From the reservation and table-plan book at Café Solange, 9 Laurel Street, the Heights. Amélie's hand. A green cloth-bound book, hand-ruled
  • int-tanner-restricted — [From the Tanner Collection at the Hume Polytechnic Library. CARG-01917-R-2. Restricted access, per the 1923 addendum to the library's 1921
  • int-vilbrand-daybook — [From the winter-caretaker's day-book kept by Oscar Vilbrand, Aldenhaven, 1921 volume. Reproduced: the week of 14 August through 20 August 1
Background and Atmosphere (8)
  • bg-anya-admission — [Three documents from the Hume Polytechnic Institute Registrar's 1920 admissions file for "Vasko, Anna (admitted Sept. 1920, Chemistry, Clas
  • bg-ashmore-column — [Clipping from the Port Hume Beacon Sunday section, 15 October 1922. Page 14 of the 32-page Sunday edition. "Ashmore's Calendar" appears wee
  • bg-bethel-minutes — [From the minutes book of the Women's Circle of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Port Hume. Meeting of 11 May 1922. Recorded by Mi
  • bg-doyle-ledger — [From the evening register of Doyle's Saloon, 41 Water Street, the Quays. Hand-ruled, filled by Mrs. Doyle and by her evening staff. Entries
  • bg-harbor-blotter — [Photocopy of one page from the Port Hume Harbor Police duty blotter, 8 November 1922. Pre-printed columnar form with hand entries. 24-hour
  • bg-musical-minutes — [From the minutes book of the Port Hume Ladies' Musical Society, 1919 volume. Recorded by the secretary, Mrs. Celeste Vantine. Meeting of 16
  • bg-orpheus-1923 — [Programme, printed on heavy cream card, folded twice, distributed to Orpheus Society subscribers in September 1923. Engraved frontispiece s
  • bg-settlement-report — [From the Ward Street Settlement House Annual Report for 1922, printed as a 24-page booklet on cream paper, distributed to donors and to the