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Floyd Collins Funeral, Western Kentucky University

Floyd Collins Funeral

Mourning ephemera and photographs

These images were taken by Cave City, Kentucky resident William R. Reynolds, Jr. He photographed Cave City scenes and it residents in the early 1900s. This image shows the J. T. Gerald Funeral Home at the time of the funeral of Floyd Collins. The men are carrying the casket of Floyd Collins. One of the men as a arm band marked "Sand Cave."

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From Rochel To Rose And Mendel To Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants To The United States, Jason H. Greenberg The Graduate Center, City University of New York

From Rochel To Rose And Mendel To Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants To The United States, Jason H. Greenberg

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There has been a dearth of investigation into the distribution of and the alterations among Jewish given names. Whereas Jewish surnames are a popular topic of study, first names receive far less analysis. Because Jewish immigrants to the United States frequently changed their names, this thesis can serve as a guide to genealogists and other scholars seeking to trace the paths of Jewish immigrants from Europe. Data was drawn from about 1500 naturalization records from Brooklyn in order to determine the correspondences between the given names featured on passenger lists and their Americanized counterparts. More than three-quarters of surveyed immigrants ...

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Juneau County, Wisconsin Bygdebok: A Geneology Of The Norwegian Settlers, 1850-1950, Lawrence W. Onsager Andrews University

Juneau County, Wisconsin Bygdebok: A Genealogy Of The Norwegian Settlers, 1850-1950, Lawrence W. Onsager

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New Mexico Roots Ltd : A Demographic Perspective From Genealogical, Historical And Geographic Data Found In The Diligencias Matrimoniales Or Pre-Nuptial Investigations (1678-1869) Of The Archives Of The Archdiocese Of Santa Fe : Multiple Data Extracted And Here Edited In A Uniform Presentation By Years And Family Surnames, Angelico Chavez University of New Mexico

New Mexico Roots Ltd : A Demographic Perspective From Genealogical, Historical And Geographic Data Found In The Diligencias Matrimoniales Or Pre-Nuptial Investigations (1678-1869) Of The Archives Of The Archdiocese Of Santa Fe : Multiple Data Extracted And Here Edited In A Uniform Presentation By Years And Family Surnames, Angelico Chavez

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 5, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking, Richard H. Hulan, Edith Von Zemenszky, David A. Rausch Ursinus College

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 5, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking, Richard H. Hulan, Edith Von Zemenszky, David A. Rausch

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist
• The Dogtrot House and its Pennsylvania Associations
• A Letter from Pastor Johann Friedrich Ernst
• Civil War Medicine: A Patient's Account
• Soups, Stews, Broths, and Porridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 48

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What's In A Swedish Surname?, Nils William Olsson Augustana College

What's In A Swedish Surname?, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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Recreating Richard Iii: The Power Of Tudor Propaganda, Heather Alexander East Tennessee State University

Recreating Richard Iii: The Power Of Tudor Propaganda, Heather Alexander

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Because it signified the violent transition from the Plantagenet to Tudor dynasty, the death of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth’s Field was a monumental event. After five centuries, his skeleton was rediscovered by an archaeological team at a site, formerly the location of the Greyfriars Priory Church. The presentation uses the forensic evidence to examine the extent to which the perceived image of Richard III is the result of Tudor propaganda.

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 1, Joan Saverino, Joseph Bentivegna, Nicholas V. De Leo, Catherine Cerrone, Janet Theophano Ursinus College

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 1, Joan Saverino, Joseph Bentivegna, Nicholas V. De Leo, Catherine Cerrone, Janet Theophano

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• "Domani Ci Zappa": Italian Immigration and Ethnicity in Pennsylvania
• A Study of the San Cataldesi Who Emigrated to Dunmore, Pennsylvania
• A Look at the Early Years of Philadelphia's "Little Italy"
• "An Aura of Toughness, Too": Italian Immigration to Pittsburgh and Vicinity
• Expressions of Love, Acts of Labor: Women's Work in an Italian American Community

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Full Issue Vol. 16 No. 4, Augustana College

Full Issue Vol. 16 No. 4

Swedish American Genealogist

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A History Of Swan's Island, Maine, Herman Wesley Small M.D. University of Southern Maine

A History Of Swan's Island, Maine, Herman Wesley Small M.D.

Maine Collection

A History of Swan's Island, Maine

by H.W. Small, M.D. (1865-1937)

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction - Aborigines - Discovery, 2. Purchase - Settlement and Land Titles, 3. A Sketch of the Life of Col. James Swan, 4. Biographical Sketches of early Settlers, 5. Gott's Island, 6. The Fishing Industry, 7. Synopsis of the Municipal Records, 8. Miscellaneous - Index of First Settlers

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We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs PhD 2022 University of Southern Maine

We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Welcome to the fourth exhibit in the series of “We Exist”. In this section we have selected quotes that represent and explain how Maine’s Black residents’ create the processes behind their engagement in particular leisure activities. The quotes also highlight the particular types of leisure activities that Maine’s Black residents suggest that they are involved in. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project "'Home Is Where I Make It': African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine”. The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original ...

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History From The Margins: Literary Culture And Manuscript Production In Western India In The Vernacular Millennium, Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani 2022 University of Michigan

History From The Margins: Literary Culture And Manuscript Production In Western India In The Vernacular Millennium, Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani

Manuscript Studies

Scholars of South Asia have long known of praśastis, eulogistic verses often composed in the transregional Sanskrit language on copperplates, stone slabs, and temple walls, from the early centuries of the Common Era. They have traditionally sieved these documents to recover dynastic histories and have supposed that as a genre, it faded away in the second millennium CE when Islamic polities were established across the subcontinent and new genres of history writing were popularized. In making this supposition they have overlooked the fact that praśastis continued to be frequently composed and written. Yet, their appearance was neither in public spaces ...

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Full Issue, 2022 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Full Issue

The Forum: Journal of History

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Enlightening The “Dark Ages”: Historical Genealogy And The Medieval Narrative, Jess R. O’Leary 2022 Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Enlightening The “Dark Ages”: Historical Genealogy And The Medieval Narrative, Jess R. O’Leary

The Forum: Journal of History

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The Malleability Of Home: A Genealogy Of Clark University's English House, Christina Rose Walcott, Justin Shaw 2022 Clark University

The Malleability Of Home: A Genealogy Of Clark University's English House, Christina Rose Walcott, Justin Shaw

English

This essay details the history of the land and structures that occupy the property currently located at the corner of Hawthorne and Woodland Streets in Worcester, Mass. Covering over 300 years, it begins with the legacies of the Nipmuc and the early English colonialist settlers before moving into a discussion of Worcester's 19th Century industrialists and 20th Century acquisition by the University. The essay builds on extensive archival research using materials from both physical and digital collections such as atlases, censuses, biographies, directories, criticism, and more. To further develop the story of the English Department and its home, the ...

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A Just And True Return: A Dataset Of Pennsylvania's Surviving County Slave Registries, Cory James Young 2022 Georgetown University

A Just And True Return: A Dataset Of Pennsylvania's Surviving County Slave Registries, Cory James Young

The Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD)

A Just and True Return (JATR) contains information about more than 6,300 Black people and their enslavers principally taken from extant registries from fifteen Pennsylvania counties: Adams, Allegheny, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Centre, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Fayette, Lancaster, Northampton, Washington, and Westmoreland. It also includes a handful of records from four counties—Crawford, Franklin, Philadelphia, and York—whose registries have not been located, but which can be partially reconstructed from a variety of other sources. Pennsylvania's 1780 gradual abolition law required enslavers to register with their county clerk any people they wished to continue holding in lifetime slavery ...

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Le Forum, Vol. 44 #2, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Daniel Moreau, Anna Faherty, Virginia L. Sand, Rhea Côté Robbins, Linda Gerard DerSimonian, Patrick Lacroix, Don Levesque, Kevin St. Jarre, Juliana L'Heureux, Marie Yvonne Blanche Cavanagh, Denis Carrier, Nicole Gallant Nunes 2022 The University of Maine

Le Forum, Vol. 44 #2, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Daniel Moreau, Anna Faherty, Virginia L. Sand, Rhea Côté Robbins, Linda Gerard Dersimonian, Patrick Lacroix, Don Levesque, Kevin St. Jarre, Juliana L'Heureux, Marie Yvonne Blanche Cavanagh, Denis Carrier, Nicole Gallant Nunes

Le FORUM Journal

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Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying The Author Of Three Manuscript Receipt Books, Kimberley G. Connor 2022 Stanford University

Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying The Author Of Three Manuscript Receipt Books, Kimberley G. Connor

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

This paper uses recipe contributors named in three early modern manuscript receipt books (Sloane MS 2485, Sloane MS 2486 and Folger V.a 619) to identify the author as Margaret Baker, daughter of Richard Baker the Chronicler (c.1568-1645) and Margaret Mainwaring (died c.1652). A familial connection is also made to Wellcome MS 212. The Margaret Baker example is used to argue for the necessity of identifying a broader range of receipt, or recipe, book writers in order to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of recipe book production, and their social context. In the case of Margaret Baker ...

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Marburg Files 4-16-21-Finding Aid L-S Teil 2 Modified, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Marburg Files 4-16-21-Finding Aid L-S Teil 2 Modified, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Johannes Schwalm Collection Finding Aids

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Braunschweig Trommler, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Braunschweig Trommler, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Marburg Files - Finding Aid - Main File - Modified, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Marburg Files - Finding Aid - Main File - Modified, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Johannes Schwalm Collection Finding Aids

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Marburg Files - Finding Aid Londahl-Smidt-Modified, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Marburg Files - Finding Aid Londahl-Smidt-Modified, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Johannes Schwalm Collection Finding Aids

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Finding Aids For Microfilm And Electronic Resources, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Finding Aids For Microfilm And Electronic Resources, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Johannes Schwalm Collection Finding Aids

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Hessesn-Hanau Winterkleidung, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hessesn-Hanau Winterkleidung, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Marburg Files - 5-03-21 - Finding Aid, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Marburg Files - 5-03-21 - Finding Aid, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Johannes Schwalm Collection Finding Aids

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Hessen-Cassel Cadetten Corps, ohannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hessen-Cassel Cadetten Corps, Ohannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Hessen-Cassel Regiments Feldscheer, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hessen-Cassel Regiments Feldscheer, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Hessen-Cassel Feld Artillerie, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hessen-Cassel Feld Artillerie, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Hessen Cassel Beck, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hessen Cassel Beck, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Braunschweig Zimmermann, Braunschweig Zimmermann 2022 Kutztown University

Braunschweig Zimmermann, Braunschweig Zimmermann

Schwalm Knotel Watercolors

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Kentucky Library Research Collections Western Kentucky University

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