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Describes the living, feeding, and breeding habits of insects; then discusses their detrimental and useful roles in agricultural and medical sciences; and briefly details insect collection and classification.
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Defines, illustrates and discusses over one thousand terms integral to the study of literature, composition, grammar, linguistics and literary movements.
610058
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Explains the physical properties of light, the sources of illumination man has used, the benefits of light in medicine, and the relationship of light to plants and pollution.
710058
Visual Materials
The principal steam power plant for Henry Huntington's Pacific Light and Power (PL&P) system was at Redondo Beach. This March 1914 view of the Redondo Steam Plant shows how the plant appeared at about the time Dave Redinger briefly worked there. Pg. 54.
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Manuscripts
In this letter, written from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to an unknown addressee, Joseph Whitaker describes the Native Americans in the area: "...not many deer now the Indians kill about all there is a few Indians about all the time they speak muskrats and fish on the ice in the winter the muskrats build a kind of house of pieces of old bog one of them is worth a shilling to them. The skins they sell for six pence and eat the rest they don't wash themselves once a month and when they have good luck they paint themselves with all kinds of paint...." Whitaker also talks briefly about his farming and hunting.
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Fisk starts his reminiscences in 1850 when he left Illinois for California. He describes his overland journey in a party of 20 wagons. He mentions the Native Americans they passed (specifically the Utes and Otos), Fort Laramie, and how the group had to leave items behind to speed their pace. He also talks about Salt Lake City, buffalo herds, and the group's constant search for water. Fisk then describes arriving in Hangtown (Placerville), his experience mining on the American River and leaving California to mine in Colorado. He writes briefly about his time with the 2nd Iowa Regiment. He also discusses his decision to travel to Alaska to try his hand at gold mining one more time. Following the reminiscences are typescripts of several letters from Fisk to his sister written while on his journey to Alaska.
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