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Norfolk Commissioners of Sewers manuscript compendium

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    Representation from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

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    To the Right Honorable Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: A Representation of the State of the Trade of this Kingdom.

    mssHM 821

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    Photographs of Norfolk, Nebraska, and the Norfolk Beet Sugar Factory

    Visual Materials

    A disbound album of 101 photographs of the town of Norfolk, Nebraska, showing residences, businesses and civic buildings, and focusing on the activities at the Norfolk Beet Sugar Factory. Several images show men and children working inside the beet sugar factory, while some show men, women, and children harvesting beets. More than two dozen photographs show the exteriors of houses in the town, some with people standing on the porches or front lawns. Two photographs show sod houses made of rough bricks and sod. In addition to street views of several city blocks and exterior views of buildings including the Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk, hotels, the high school, train depot, fire department, and commercial store fronts (with one building showing a sign for "Tillotson & Thompson Photograph Gallery"). There are also interior images of a clothing store, a dried goods store, a horse tack store, a shoe store, a jewelry story, and a butcher shop.

    photCL 118

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    The establishment of the Officers of the Customs: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    This manuscript contains the names of the Officers of the Customs established in 1702.

    mssHM 78037

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    Provisional articles, signed at Paris, the 30th of November, 1782, by the Commissioner of His Britannic Majesty, and the Commissioners of the United States of America. Published by authority

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    Treaty of Paris signed September 3, 1783 between Great Britain on one side, and France, Spain, and the U.S. on the other.

    mssHM 80766

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    Names of members of the Convention Parliament: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    This is a list of the members of the Convention Parliament in 1688.

    mssHM 699

  • Speed the plough. Norfolk Agricultural Society

    Speed the plough. Norfolk Agricultural Society

    Visual Materials

    Image of agriculture and livestock-related scenes on a certificate from the Norfolk Agricultural Society of Massachusetts; farmer milking a cow, man with horses, farm workers plowing fields near cattle and sheep, birdhouses and beehives in foliage, and grain sheaves make a decorative border for certificate text; embossed "Norfolk Agricultural Society 1849" seal at bottom left.

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