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Lamia's winter-quarters
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Lamia's winter-quarters / by Alfred Austin
Rare Books
This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.
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Winter quarters
Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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First N.H. Battery winter quarters 1864
Visual Materials
Image of a view of a military camp for the First New Hampshire Battery during the American Civil War on the farm of John Minor Botts near Brandy Station, Virginia; cabins visible at the edge of a forest; soldiers on foot and on horseback near wagons in the foreground.
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Discovery Harbor, Showing the Winter Quarters of H.M.S. "Discovery"
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Arctic Expedition 1875-6. H.M. Ships Alert and Discovery. Kashnor notes, "The Discovery wintered in Lat. 81 deg. 44 min. N, Long. 64 deg. 45 min. W. Shows Sun Peninsula, Bellot Island, Discovery Harbor, St. Patrick's Bay, &c." Kashnor dates as [1877]. Magnetic compass rose shows variation of 101 deg. 53 min. W. Location of coal seam, various cairns. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Sea miles, cables. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 2.
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