Josef Breitenbach : manifesto

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  Josef Manuel Gutierrez sugar plantation evaluation

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  Josef Manuel Gutierrez's sugar plantation was in Zitacuaro, Mexico. The papers are also signed by appraisers, witnesses, etc.

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  Frank Eugene : the dream of beauty

  Rare Books

  "The German-American photographer Grank Eugene (1865-1936) is regarded internationally as one of the most innovative art photographers on the period prior to the first World War. He studied painting under Wilhelm von Diez at the Munich Academy of Art and was then active as a portrait painter of famous actors and musicians. He first came to the attention of a wider public as a photographer in 1899 on the occasion of a solo exhibition in the New York Camera Club. As a founder-member of the Photo-Secession, his works were included in almost all the important exhibitions in North America and Europe organized by that association. His method of manipulating his negatives by etching and drawing on them attracted particular attention and gained him the name of a painter-photographer. Frank Eugene was also successful in importing his unusual pictorial technique to his students at the School of Photography in Munich and the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Design in Leipzig, where he taught portrait and art photography. This publication is the first to present the life and work of the photographer along with a comprehensive selection of more than 300 photographs"--Back of dust jacket.

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  Sketch of the life of William Morley Black [microform] : c.1915

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  Microfilm of the life history of William Morley Black, probably in the handwriting of his daughter Eva Minerva Black Palmer. Black opens with recollections of the difficulties of frontier life in Ohio and Illinois, his work as a farmer and mason after his father's death, and his marriage to Margaret Bonks in 1846. While living in Illinois in 1848, Black notes that "news of the discovery of gold in California created quite a fever in our town, and I caught the fever in the spring 1849." He describes joining William Maxwell's joint stock company, passing through Nauvoo, and crossing the plains. His overland account is limited except for his notes on buffalo hunting, of which he reflected "sad indeed it was for the Sioux nation when the white man made a through fare [sic] thru [sic] their well stocked hunting grounds." The party entered the Salt Lake Valley in July 1849, and "were all on tip toe to see what kind of civilization the Mormons would exhibit." Black learned of the "martyrdom" of Joseph Smith, was impacted by the persecutions the Mormons had suffered, and was so impressed by a church sermon that he wrote "if that is Mormonism then I am a Mormon." He writes that "any desire and ambition for gold was swept away," and he abandoned the California company to remain in Utah. In February 1850 he was selected to go on a mission to the Sanpete Valley, which he was not eager to do. "I could not see just what right the President had to call me. I understood and expected them to guide me in spiritual matters, but this was of a temporal nature and beyond their jurisdiction." Black ultimately submitted to the call and writes of paying tributes to Indians on the road to Sanpete, quoting Brigham Young as saying that it was "cheaper to feed them than it was to fight them." Black describes living with a Father Morley at Manti, building a grist mill, and marrying his first plural wife. In 1851 he was finally allowed to travel back to Illinois with the J.M Grant company to retrieve his family. He broke his ribs falling into a well and was in poor condition when he arrived in South Canton in December. He writes that he was "full of enthusiasm" for Mormonism, and when he told his family about his conversion his mother-in-law was "wild with rage" and his father-in-law would not share a house with him. His wife and two children, as well as a brother and sister he converted, traveled back to Utah in October 1852. Along the way he was cheated out of wages by a Brother Leonard, but Brigham Young convinced Black to let Leonard use the money to fund a mission to China instead of paying him. Back in Utah Black partnered with a Brother Washburn in tanning and shoemaking. When local grist millers were killed during the Walker War in July 1853, Black took over the mill. He describes running various mills, including those at Nephi (he writes that with the establishment of Camp Floyd in 1858 his "wheat was turned to gold"), Ephraim, and Circle Valley, where he was held under siege by Indians (two brothers recently arrived from Illinois were killed). After abandoning the Circle Valley settlement in 1867, Black moved to Beaver before being called to a mission in Washington. He later helped John R. Young build a grist mill at Kanab. He praised the establishment of United Orders and lived at Orderville until the late 1870s. He describes moving to Mexico in 1889 "not out of choice but of necessity," and of his various homes there. He writes that when war broke out between the Madero and Diaz parties in Pacheco, his family fled to El Paso and later returned to Utah. The final pages of the autobiography contain genealogy and a note on Black's death probably written by Eva Palmer.

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  Einführung in die moderne Electrizitäts lehre

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  The volume, in German, was written by Curt Hoffman and was based on the lectures of Dr. Doule in Munich. With labeled diagrams and formulas. Includes a table of contents at the end of the volume.

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  Earle R. Forrest letter to Leslie Bliss

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  In this letter on Earle Forrest's personal letterhead, he describes going through the Washington Pennsylvania Reporter's 1897 file and finding an interview given by James Kuntz Sr., titled: Was a forty-niner. Forrest relates that James Kuntz Sr. was a member of the first party that left the county for the Californhia gold fields in 1849. He thought the typescript might be of interest to Bliss. Forrest also recalls that as a boy he remembered Kuntz and was associated with him because his uncle married Kuntz's niece. Forrest also mentions that he was notified that the manuscript of his book California Joe had arrived. A postscript gives further biogrphical information on James Kuntz Sr.

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  Andrew Jackson, New Port, letter to Rachel Jackson, Hunters Hill :

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  Jackson mentions that Colonel Christmas is delivering his letter and a variety of garden seeds; he reports on stable fires and that he was able to save his horse from the fire. He also reports that he has caught a cold which is now in his chest and discusses plans for cotton planting and apple trees; expresses concerns over her relationship with the servants.

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