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Each of the four reports consists of a typescript summary, followed by 3" x 5" black and white photogrpahs mounted 2 to a page. The reports are as follows: (1) August 4, 1906, 30 pages of text, 66 photographs. (2) May 9, 1907, 19 pages of text, 12 of 16 photographs (one leaf excised, 2 photos not present). (3) November 29, 1907, 29 pages of text, 32 photographs. (4) July 8, 1908, 36 pages of text, 102 of 103 photographs. The photographs were apparently taken by P.S. Hildreth, and the reports were submitted to the syndicate managers. There are a few ms. additions. Two of the four reports have a typed "In Triplicate" note at the end of the text.
mssHM 82552
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This is a photostat copy of the thesis of Francis H. Leavitt, titled, "The influence of the Mormon people in the settlement of Clark County." Unbound and 183 pages in length, the text is faint but readable and includes handwritten and typewritten transcriptions where the text is illegible or missing. It covers roughly the time period from 1826 to 1921.
mssHM 66671
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There are several variants of this edition, which had two distinct issues. The second issue, first state, corrected minor errors in the text, but not the date of publication, expanded the content of the fourth tract, and included two additional woodcut illustrations. The second issue, second state finally corrected the date of publication to read ".M.cccc.xcvii." Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 18.8 cm. Text printed in 2 columns of 42-43 lines and headline; col. width: 6.1 cm.; area of text: 19.6 (20.5) x 13.3 cm. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Includes 48 mostly full- or half-page woodcut illustrations (many are repeated). Generally, they depict the master surgeon, his apprentices, his patients, and his instruments in a variety of scenarios. There are also 3 smaller sets of illustrations of surgical instruments within the text. The second issue contains two additional woodcut illustrations.--Cf. Schramm. Numerous foliation errors. Signatures: pi⁶ A-V⁶. Imperfect: leaf pi6 lacking. Binding: 16th/17th century Italian[?] semi-limp parchment; stamped "1604" on front cover.
85770
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Collection of 20 loose pages (intended for a 3-ring binder) with mounted stamps and covers, with medicine and health related images and themes. Each page has a typescript descriptive note/key. Each printed mounting sheet reads "Medicine and health on stamps" with images of a nurse and doctors. Collection includes both international and American stamps. Also includes a stamp album of the Chicago Heart Association, "the history of medicine", accompanied by an envelope of loose stamps.
mssHM 82468
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Fifty-four drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber of clothing, tools, weapons, instruments, and hides used by Native Americans, as well as portraits of individual Native American men and women (Menomonee, Chippewa, Winnebago, Comanche, Oneida, Blackhawk, Ponca, Sioux, Pawnee, Concaw, Oshkosh, Ottoe) in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Hölzlhuber titled the drawings on the front (in German) and there is text on the verso of the drawings (also in German). Also present is the original housing of the drawings, a volume that was entitled "Costüm-Bilder waffen und Geräthshaften einiger Indianerstamme im Nordwesten America." Box 6 contains photocopies of the German text on the versos of the drawings. There are no English translations.
mssHM 9892
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The manuscript is titled: A Compendious System of Practical Surveying taken from the latest Author by George Hannum, Philomath, and Taught by John Day, Preceptor. This fragile volume consists of approximately 54 pages of written text and diagrams. This is an advance work of surveying showing how to undertake the solution of complex problems. The manuscript opens with geometrical problems and moves on to right angle and oblique trigonometry. The text then shifts to finding areas of various shapes using logarithms. Also recorded are various methods of mapping and how to draw maps, ad methods of completing surveys for the division of land. It is in this section that Hannum applies colors to the illustrations of some of the surveys. There are two complete surveys and they are segregated in the text by being placed, inverted, on the last blank pages of the manuscript. From Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania.
mssHM 83602