R. Hoe & Co., New York -- catalog of machinery for making stereotype plates [24pp.] (n.d.), 2 copies -- Duplex Printing Press Company, Battle Creek, Michigan -- sheet advertising Duplex. matrix drying table and mechanical compressor steam table...
The chairs or thrones of chiefs represent one of the most widely recognized art forms produced by the Chokwe, Lwena, and Lunda peoples of northern Angola and southern Zaire. The majority of these spectacular objects imitate seventeenth-century...
"The works in the exhibition divide into two esthetic categories: 1) those which achieve visual unity through a balance of stable shapes and 2) those which achieve visual unity through an ultimate equilibrium of shifting effects"--P. 5; "The works...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
"An address delivered before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church on the twenty-second day of February, 1842, by Abraham Lincoln."
Primarily written in one hand, the front section of this book contains recipes for cakes and pastries, while the middle is dedicated to sauces, pickles and preserves, and the rear to household cleaning and health. Some laid in items, one a letter...
Soldiers; Infantry; Military camps; Military training; Military uniforms; Recruiting & enlistment; Reading; Newspapers; Campaigns & battles; Prisoners of war; Religious services; Military bands; Barracks; Executions; Dead persons
Goodhue, of Brodhead, Wis., served with Company C of the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, enlisting in 1861. He was stationed around Harper's Ferry, Md. for most of that year.
Family history including author's description of her father John Strang's participation in the Civil War in Company K of the 11th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry Volunteers.