Ledger detailing petty cash expenditure
Ledger detailing petty cash expenditure
Petty cash books relating to Muintir na Tíre, details date, amount, items bought and balance in hand
Photocopy of letter from E O Growny, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, to S J Barrett, thanking him for his subscription. He also sends a few books to him. He states that they are doing well in Maynooth, with up to 300 students now able to read Irish.
Photocopy of letter from E O Growny, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, to SJ Barrett, thanking him for his subscription, and commenting on the lack of an index for volume III of the "Gaelic Journal". He states that he has distributed 41, but that he had re
Photocopy of part of letter relating to the correspondence of Stiophán Bairéad.
Memorandum of meeting between Ciarán Bairéad and H J Campbell, General Manager of the Hibernian Bank, discussing a loan which the bank had made to Padraig Pearse that his father, Stiophán, had guaranteed. Includes a press cutting on Mr Campbell.
Photocopy of postcard from E O Growny to SJ Barrett, thanking him for his subscription to the "Gaelic Journal", and discusses passing it on to other people.
Photocopy of postcard from E O Growny to S J Barrett, 24 Albert Place, Grand Canal St., Dublin, stating that if the numbers are not there that he will post a few more on. "My change of residence & much work has put things back - we shall improve".
Photograph album documenting various irrigation projects that M M O'Shaughnessy was involved with or interested in. The first is a dam project on the Otay Lake, and the photographs show the laying of pipelines, construction of the dam, the construction of Lower Otay House, construction workers, and the industrialist Captain Charles T Hinde on site.
The album also includes photographs from earlier that decade taken during the Koolau Ditch project in Maui, Hawaii, with a memorial stone to O'Shaughnessy, the Engineer, 1904. Ed. Rogers and Jorgen Jorgensen (who was known as 'Little Boss' on site) are photographed with him.
There are photographs of bridges and canal structures from a trip to China, including the entrance to the city of Kading, and Shanghai. Photographs of railway lines and irrigation projects in Mexico also demonstrate O'Shaughnessy's interest in learning from irrigation projects elsewhere.
Several photographs in the album document his project at the Dulzura Conduit, San Diego. These images also include several candid photographs of the construction workers at the Cottonwood camp.
Photograph of the Mill Valley High School, and some images of the O'Shaughnessy family dated 1908-1909.
Several photographs of the Morena Reservoir documenting the dam project O'Shaughnessy led from 1909-1910.
The final few pages of the album show the construction of the Los Angeles aqueduct, with Chief Engineer William Mulholland and his guests photographed in a group.
All of the photographs in the album have been captioned by O'Shaughnessy. They are in no discernable order with several projects and subjects intermixed.