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Rare Books
Includes photographs. Most items for Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway. For the Maine Central: photographs only.
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Rare Books
Krogh received the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1920. His most important work was on the physiology of capillaries.
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Manuscripts
An account of traveling overland by car and trailer to Taos, New Mexico, by four women in 1939 (Esther, Mary Ellen, Bev, and Pat). They left Philadelphia mid-July and the journalistic account continues until their departure from Taos on August 30. Their trailer (named "Tuck") was "6' x 12' built of plywood and covered with duck canvas." Quite a bit of the account in Taos relates their experiences with Taos artists Dorothy Brett, Bert Geer Phillips, and Red Dancer (Juan Mirabal).This draft was submitted to Coronet Magazine in 1940, but was not published. The illustrations, done by Mahan, include drawings of the women's car and trailer, Pike's Peak, interior scenes, Taos Plaza, women in Taos, the pueblos and ranches.
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Manuscripts
This typescript, of an unpublished manuscript by Bromwell, is an alphabetical directory of prominent Argonauts of Colorado in 1858 and 1859. The manuscript includes businessmen, miners and pioneers in the Pike's Peak region of Colorado. The entries include a short biography of the individual, lands owned, positions held, affiliations with mining companies, club memberships, and other printed sources in which the person can be found. The directory also includes entries on mines and gold camps as well as important buildings such as the Apollo Theater in Denver.
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A collection of material chiefly relating to Edwin A. Bowen's Civil War service and the 52nd Regiment's veterans' association. Included are a Civil War journal kept from November 1861 to February 29, 1864; regimental military records, including general and special orders, communications, dispatches, reports, muster rolls, and ordnance records; drafts and the fair copy of Bowen's "Historical Memoranda of the 52nd Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers," (1870s); and accounts of the Battle of Shiloh that Bowen submitted at the request of Shiloh Battlefield Commission (1895). Also included are Bowen's account of his service in New Mexico (1848), an article about slavery (approximately 1861), and the original manuscript, typescript and publication of his Pike's Peak journal (1859).
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