Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 10 --> Correspondence --> 002. Legal document issued to tenants in the Mill Valley property, asking them to vacate as Margaret O'Shaughnessy and her 3 daughters wish to live there. (25 Feb 1944).
Manuscript
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Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 11 --> Other -- 001-3. A flyer announcing an upcoming concert series, undated, a letter to Elizabeth (Betty) O'Shaughnessy from the Art Alliance of America, awarding her prize (copy of an original letter), press cutting about Elizabeth's prize, from 30 Apr 1930, stuck to M M O'Shaughnessy's office paper. Copy of document previously described.
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 11 --> Correspondence --> 001. Two handwritten letters from M M O'Shaughnessy to his sister Ellie to announce he is travelling home (2-12 Jul 1920), both are stuck to a piece of cardboard with a caption beneath that says his mother sadly died before he arrived. 002-012, file of postcards (mostly blank), with images from Mill Valley, a photograph of two dogs, with names written above the photo, taken in 1904, postcard from M M to his daughters from New York,
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 14 --> Other --> 001. Typed address from M M O'Shaughnessy at the Dedication of the O'Shaughnessy Dam, addressed to the Mayor and guests. The address gives a summary of the achievements of the project, building 4 auxiliary dams, and outlining some of the challenges of the terrain in the Sierra Nevada mountain regions. He acknowledged the sacrifices of the men who were employed on the project, with some loss of life. In the address he compared the project to the Ashokan reservoir in New York, and the costs associated with both projects. Towards the end of the address, O'Shaughnessy acknowledges controversy over the economic scale of the project.
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 14 --> Memoir -->001.
A typescript account of M M O'Shaughnessy's 3 month trip to Europe, taken in 1925 during his role as City Engineer, taking in Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Cork, Limerick, Dublin, London, Stratford on Avon, Paris, Chateau Thierry, Switzerland, Lake Geneva, Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome, Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and Montreal. The account gives summary observations of municipal engineering projects from many of the destinations making comparisons with San Francisco. He writes of his week spent in Ireland, recovering its prosperity after the recent wars. Comparisons of scale are drawn between the Shannon Power Scheme and the Hetch Hetchy plant for San Francisco.
Two copies.
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 14 --> Photographs --> 001.
A scrapbook of photographs taken by M M O'Shaughnessy during his 3 month trip around the East Coast of the United States and Europe in 1925. There are 61 photographs in total, and each one has a typed caption, some with handwritten notes added in. The photographs mainly capture monuments, and are mostly from Switzerland, Paris, Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan, Marseilles, Boston, Pompeii and Naples.
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 15 -->Photographs --> 003 (white envelope France'
Eleven black and white photographs of [Helen] O'Shaughnessy on a trip to France c 1950. Most of the photographs are captioned. They are mainly of her standing outside sights including cemeteries, cathedrals and the River Seine.
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 15 -->Photographs --> 004 (white envelope
Four colour photographs of children (grand-children of M M O'Shaughnessy? Or in Limerick?) Includes two photographs of a young boy on a horse, one in front of a large house. One Communion photograph of a young girl. Portrait studio photograph of the boy.
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 15 -->Photographs --> 007. Two photographs taken in London, with Helen O'Shaughnessy, and possibly Elizabeth with another, unidentified lady. The photographs were taken outside the British Museum and The Old Curiosity Shop in Holburn. (Undated, but most likely after 1937 as Helen looks a little older than she did in the photographs from the Ireland trip in 1937).
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 15 -->Photographs --> 033
Mounted studio photograph, head and shoulders portrait style, of a man of about 35 years looking to the right hand side. The photographic studio is in Honolulu, and a note on the back dates it as November 1903. It identifies the person as [E V Bull].
Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 15 -->Photographs --> 035.
Mounted photograph of M M O'Shaughnessy with five other men in a motor boat. O'Shaughnessy is in the centre of the photograph, and is smiling at the camera. A note on the back of the photograph says "?Trip? City Fathers".