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Box 19

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Manuscripts, photographs, and museum items of the Millington and Blankenship Families

 File — Box: 19
Identifier: id93562
Scope and Contents

This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.

Dates: 1801-1951

Gold Snuff Box

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: id94001
Scope and Contents From the File:

This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.

Dates: 1801-1951

Thermometer, undated

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 2
Identifier: id94002
Scope and Contents

Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.

Dates: undated

Drafting Instruments, undated

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 3
Identifier: id94003
Scope and Contents

Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.

Dates: undated

Gold Snuff Box, 1829

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: id94004
Scope and Contents

Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, "This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute...."

Dates: 1829

Letter with Gold Snuff Box, 1829 October 22

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: id94005
Scope and Contents

Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.

Dates: 1829 October 22

Note with Gold Snuff Box, 1889, 1929

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: id94006
Scope and Contents

Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.

Dates: 1889, 1929