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Reputations ten years after
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An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, ten years after the armistice, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.
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Vermejo Club - general correspondence
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Approx. 15 items, grouped in two bundles, one dating from 1953, the other from 1959 : 1953 group consists mainly of letters to and replies from W.S. Ruby, Real Estate Manager of Chandis Securities (after merger with Southwest Land Co.) related to Vermejo Club / Vermejo Ranch property ; 3-pp. letter, 10/28/1959, from W.S. Ruby to W.D. Grisso of the University of Oklahoma, which reads in part, "W.J. Gorley of Fort Worth purchased the Vermejo property from Southwest Land Co. over ten years ago and that much of the file pertaining to the property has long since been destroyed" ; 3-pp. "Vermejo Club members" list, undated, but it predates Harry Chandler's 1944 death (also predates actor Douglas Fairbanks' 1939 death). Some prominent names from the list: Capt. William Banning, Harry Chandler, Col. Ira Copley, Cecil B. de Mille, Douglas Fairbanks, Harvey Firestone, Will H. Hays, Herbert Hoover, Glenn L. Martin, Andrew Mellon, Claus Spreckles and Adolf Zukor. Another item in the 1959 group is a letter addressed to Harry Chandler fifteen years after his death.
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The education of John Dewey : a biography
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Based on original sources, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters, John Dewey. During his lifetime (1859-1952), he was regarded by poll after poll as one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His philosophy, Pragmatism, has been the distinctive American philosophy during the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today. Dewey rejected old-fashioned schooling and believed in multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896), still thrives today and is a model for schools all over the world. "The Education of John Dewey" shows the unity of Deweys life and work. Jay Martin recounts Dewey's childhood years, family history, religious influences, and influential friendships, and reassesses his legacy. The book highlights the importance of the women in Deweys life, especially his mother, wife and daughters, but also others, including the reformer Jane Addams and the novelist Anzia Yezierska.
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Henri Coulette Papers
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The papers consist of the following series: Papers 1. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3). The correspondence is filed alphabetically by author. Among the authors writing to Coulette are: Philip Levine, Robert L. Barth, Robert Mezey, and Timothy Steele. An especially illuminating letter about Coulette (who remained somewhat of a mystery throughout his life) is one written in 1990 by Norman Fruman to Robert Mezey (Box 1 (44)). 2. Manuscripts by Coulette and others (Boxes 4-11). The manuscripts are arranged into the following series: Notebooks by Coulette (Boxes 4-6); poems and book length poems by Coulette (Boxes 7-9); manuscripts by Coulette and others (Box 10); poems and manuscripts by others (Box 11). All manuscripts and poems are filed alphabetically except for the notebooks and tablets, some of which are filed numerically. Included in poems by others are poems by Philip Levine, who, over the years, sent many poems to Coulette for his opinion. Coulette's notebooks and many drafts of his poems allow a researcher to trace the evolution of a poem from conception to final product. 3. Ephemera (Boxes 11-14, oversize folder). The ephemera folders are filed alphabetically and include journal issues, awards and diplomas, newspaper and magazine clippings, and various personal papers. Addenda Part I 4. Addenda Part I. Consists of 18 reel-to-reel audiotapes (Box 15) with unknown content and two oversize folders containing copies of poems. Addenda Part II Addenda Part II is arranged in the following series: 5. Correspondence and Manuscripts (Box 16); 6. Manuscripts and Ephemera (Box 17); 7. Ephemera (Box 18). 5. The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by author. The series consists largely of letters regarding the publication The Collected Poems of Henri Coulette. The book was compiled after Coulette's death by his close friends, colleagues, and book editors Donald Justice and Robert Mezey. Copies of Coulette's poems as well as revisions made to the book by Justice and Mezey accompany these letters. Justice and Mezey would make revisions and send these corrections to one another and to the book's publisher the University of Arkansas Press. Once the book was published it received an unfavorable review from poet Philip Levine. Letters can be found within this series which relate to that negative review and include reactions from Justice, Mezey, various publishing companies, and fellow poets. 6. The Manuscripts series is arranged alphabetically and includes poems, book reviews, and articles written by Coulette and fellow writers: Anthony Cave Brown, Robert Dana, Nelle Fertig, Henri Coulette Papers -- Finding Aid -- page 5 Elton Glaser, Michael S. Harper, Elizabeth Nicholas, Eric Pankey, Michael Shepler, and Jerry Tutunjian. Also included are drafts, revisions, and notes made by Justice and Mezey to The Collected Poems of Henri Coulette manuscript. 7. The Ephemera series is arranged alphabetically and includes journal issues, newspaper and magazine clippings, a copy of Coulette's Curriculum Vitae ca. 1984, a printed notice for a Coulette poetry reading, and pamphlets relating to the Venice Simplon Orient Express in 1984.
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Journal of prospecting experiences in Colorado
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Diary kept by Henry Gramesly while he prospected in Colorado from May to July 1880, and resuming with his return trip from July to August 1881. The diary opens with Gramesly traveling by rail through the Kenosha Pass in Colorado and his arrival in Leadville. Shortly after his arrival 6,000 miners went on strike demanding higher wages. Gramesly tracks the strike, which continued throughout the month of June until it was broken by militiamen sent by Governor Frederick Pitkin. Gramesly writes of men being shot, the introduction of martial law, and "great excitement" in the city. He reflects several times that the setting and situation "puts me in mind of the Army." At the same time as the strike, high winds drove a major forest fire through the area. "Damn the country...the forests are on fire in every direction," Gramesly wrote, continuing it was so "smoky [I] can't really see the mountains." At this time a circus also came to town, which Gramesly notes in passing. In the midst of all these happenings, Gramesly went on prospecting, and on July 5 some of his companions discovered gold and staked a claim not far from their camp, called Gramesly's Camp. The diary ends on July 10, 1880, and picks up again in June 1881, when Gramesly returned to Colorado from Illinois. He writes of setting up a tunnel company with his five companions, and that he was given 10,400 shares, with a total value of $104,000. The tunnel was built near Eagle Point, and Gramesly mentions the Cave, Tray, and Waterloo Lodes, among others. He continued prospecting and hiking in the area, and records hunting sheep on La Plata and the view from Eagle Point. He also records his sighting of the Great Comet of 1881 and mentions in passing that "the President [James A. Garfield] is dying." The back of the diary contains a list of letters Gramesly sent, some miscellaneous accounting notes, and additional diary entries from early May 1880. In the diary Gramesly refers to his father as WSG, his brother as CG, and his fiancee Harriet as Hat.
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Tasker L. Oddie papers
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The collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-1914, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for governor, and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. This correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes, in alphabetical order by author, of which boxes 1-11 contain correspondence directed to Oddie, and boxes 12-19 contain copies of Oddie's own correspondence to others. There are, in addition, 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years.Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Materials created by US presidents include Theodore Roosevelt telegram to Tasker L. Oddie, 1911 March 15, and typescript copy of Theodore Roosevelt letter to Mr. Smith, 1911 January 31 (box 9); and William H. Taft typescript letter to Tasker L. Oddie, written and signed by his secretary Charles D. Hilles, 1911 June 7 (box 10). Persons represented by ten or more pieces: Adamson, L 18 pieces Amigo, Henry J 17 pieces Bray, W 14 pieces Brown, Hugh H 15 pieces Buchanan, J A 20 pieces Campbell, J 14 pieces Cookson, H H 55 pieces Howell, Eugene 43 pieces Jackson, Austin 113 pieces Johnson, Stephen 98 pieces Kinghorn, Frank J 19 pieces Landquist, J W 20 pieces Lindsay, James G 33 pieces McElroy, S T 16 pieces Miller, Thomas Woodnutt 18 pieces Moore, Sidney R 12 pieces Norcross, Charles A 11 pieces North, Miles E 16 pieces Oddie, Clarence 38 pieces Oddie, Tasker Lowndes 8 boxes pieces Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company. 21 pieces Pulver, C S 17 pieces Siebert, Fred J 35 pieces Skuse, John C 29 pieces Smith, Dix W 20 pieces Spencer, L B 24 pieces Stubbs, Joseph Edward 14 pieces Turrell, William H 15 pieces Wingfield, George 18 pieces
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