1,849,452 research outputs found
Tent at the Sturt, South Australia, 28 September 1857 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information from inscription.; Inscriptions: "Tent at the Sturt, Sept 28th 1857"--In ink below drawing.; Condition: Yellowing.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11432433-s2
Proceedings of a Convention of colored men, held in Muscatine, Jan. 5th, 1857.
No full text1857 Iowa State Convention of Colored Men held in Muscatin
Who Panics During Panics? Evidence from a Nineteenth Century Savings Bank
Get PDFUsing records of the bank accounts of individual depositors, this paper provides a detailed microeconomic analysis of two nineteenth century banking panics. The panics of 1854 and 1857 were not characterized by an immediate mass panic of depositors and had important time dimensions. We examine depositor behavior using a hazard model. Contagion was the key factor in 1854 but it was not strong enough to create more than a local panic. In contrast, the panic of 1857 began with runs by businessmen and banking sophisticates followed by less informed depositors. Uninformed contagion may have been present, but the evidence suggests that this panic was driven by informational shocks in the face of asymmetric information about the true condition of bank portfolios.
Flowers and a butterfly, 1857 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; In: Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.; Inscriptions: signed, "C. Hill 1857"--Lower left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4189024-s37
Hunter River railway through Newcastle [cartographic material] /
No full textMap 50 from Ferguson Collection.; On verso "No. 302". Damaged.; Tracing of a cadastral map of Newcastle, N.S.W., showing lots surrounding the railway line and the "line of wharf proposed by Mr. Moriarty".; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f50.Ferguson Collection Map 50
Poem on a harp, August 1857 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; In: Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.; Inscriptions: "Lillie, August 1857"--In black ink lower centre.; Condition: Some soiling and glue stains.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4189024-s27. Drawing of a harp with letters of the alphabet substituted with musical notes. Poem reads, "Sweet was the harp, In days of old, Sweet was the tale, The harper told." The harp is surrounded with a decorative border
The reform of the testamentary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, 1830-1857
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis traces the efforts of successive Governments of both persuasions to reform the ancient jurisdiction of the spiritual courts over the validity of wills of personal property. Those non-partisan efforts spanned three decades and resulted in the 1857 Court of Probate Act. A Royal Commission, reporting in 1832, recommended in effect that the jurisdiction be centralised in London by transferring it from the Province of York and from the diocesan and inferior courts to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at Doctors' Commons, where the specialist civilian lawyers practised their separate and monopolistic body of law. Because the Real Property Commission preferred a secular solution, the 1832 Report was endorsed by a Commons Select Committee in 1833 and modified by a Lords Select Committee in 1836 to allow a limited non contentious local jurisdiction. Several early attempts to bring in reforming measures based upon the centralising 1832 Report failed because of local opposition, a lack of resolve on the part of Ministers and the pressure of other business. Two Government Bills were introduced during Peel's Second Ministry. The 1843 Bill failed because it pursued a centralising policy. The 1844 Bill failed because it departed from that policy and offered to keep the diocesan courts. The Whig Opposition introduced its own centralising Bill in 1845 but it too failed. After the inactivity of Russell's administration, efforts at reform were resumed in the 1850s by rapidly changing Governments, but were hampered by local opposition, pressure of other business, and the Crimean War. By then the 1854 Report of the Chancery Commission had recommended that the entire jurisdiction should be removed to a secular court, and the debate raged about which practitioners should benefit. Finally, after pressures in the Commons to secure appropriate compensation and district probate offices with extended powers, the 1857 Act ushered in the present system
Daniel Bretland, Ledger, 1852-1857
No full textThese documents are nineteen photocopied sheets from the ledger kept by Daniel Bretland (1816-1857). They are a record of Bretland's supplies and expenses for work done on canal boats coming into the Toledo Port between 1852 and 1857. The original ledger, in its entirety, is part of the collection of the Troy-Miami Historical Society, held at the Troy-Miami County Public Library
Flowers in a vase with a snake entwined around the base, 1857 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; In: Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.; Inscriptions: signed "C. Hill 1857"--In ink lower right.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4189024-s13
Two men seated playing chess, as an angel looks on, April 1857 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; In: Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.; Inscriptions: "L. Y. Apl 1857"--In ink lower right.; Condition: Some soiling.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4189024-s20
- …
