LEDGER WITH ENTRIES WRITTEN BY WILLIAM TEMPLE

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

LEDGER WITH ENTRIES WRITTEN BY WILLIAM TEMPLE

Entry/Object ID

92.42.1.3

Description

Ledger - hardcover, constructed of paper covered cardboard with leather covered spine featuring seven (7) horizontal thin gold embossed lines, cover and spine blank (no printing or labeling), marbled-edged paper, written in ink entries by William Temple recording copies of land deeds pages 1-60, records of insurance pages 111-115, bills of lading 144, written in pencil by Anita Devoust Temple (who lived on ranch) pages 128, 130, 132, including subjects of egg development, remedies for illnesses, composition of paint. Front fly page reads "Wm Temple/Los Angeles Dec. 19th 1875./Record" (see object), page 142 rectangle in ink divided in four parts, lower right part with writing reads "37 2 S RIIW/S.B.M-/6/Lea Munsun" three (3) lines diagonally across, back endpaper in pencil reads "If the time, contemporaneous with subsequent ", inside back cover in ink reads "Licknor's life & letters".

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Search Terms

Documentary Artifact, Ledgers, Temple and Workman [Bank], Banks and banking--Los Angeles (Calif.), Bills of lading--Los Angeles (Calif.), Conveyancing, Deeds, Insurance, Life, Land titles, Ranches--Los Angeles County (Calif.)

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Object Name

Ledgers