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    Old proverbs with new pictures

    Rare Books

    Thirty-five proverbs in verse and picture. Included are "Pride Goeth Before a Fall," "The Early Bird Catches the Worm," and "Big Head, Little Wit."

    273958

  • The high sport hand made sour mash whiskey

    The high sport hand made sour mash whiskey

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    Image of a whiskey barrel label depicting a wilderness scene showing a pair of frontiersmen fighting off a bear attack in a forest; one wounded hunter lies prone on the ground with a rifle in his hand while a large brown bear stands over him; the other man holds a hatchet in an upraised hand ready to strike; three hunting dogs snarl and lunge at the bear; image in circular embellished frame with monogram of the intertwined initials " "L," "L," and "& H" at left and right.

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    Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and adjoining states showing railroads built and projected

    Visual Materials

    No old shelf mark. Map is untitled. Accompanying note suggests this map was made after 1898 but before 1907, but the layout of the counties suggest a date between 1895 and 1899. In Washington State, Stevens and Okanagon Counties split into Ferry (absent) and Chelan (absent) in 1899; in Oregon, Lincoln County (present) was formed from Benton and Park Counties in 1893, and Wheeler (absent) was formed from Grant in 1899; in Idaho, Logan (absent) and Alturas (absent) were eliminated and Lincoln (present) and Blaine (present) were formed in 1895. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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    [Theatre] (fragment)

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    Printer: H.A. Bacon, Printer With woodcut images of a Native American Indian being attacked by two dogs and a man being attacked by a bear; text features Mr. Simpson in "Cherokees or the Dogs of the Wreck"

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    Family photograph album

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    This album includes images of George and Edward Dalziel, Edward Dalziel's adult children, and possibly friends or other family; there are no identifications. Images include people at a beach promenade, dogs and cats, men walking dogs, people in a garden. There is a letter pasted in back to "Mr. Dalziel" from Sophia Duberly Delmard, May 4, 1903.

    Volume 16

  • Cukor, George, portraits

    Cukor, George, portraits

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    Images of Mr. Cukor and his dogs, presumably in his home designed by Dolena.

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