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Ua94/5/6 North Africa, U.S. Army

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Booklet created by the U.S. Army to acquaint American soldiers with North Africa during World War II. This booklet was removed from the Lucian Flora scrapbook.

Ua94/5/6 Information Bulletin, U.S. Army

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Booklet removed from Lucian Flora's scrapbook regarding the Engineering Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia during World War II.

A Statistical Study Of Certain Aspects Of The Social And Economic Pattern Of Savannah, Georgia, Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration Of Georgia

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Oral History Interviews

This report, digitized from Georgia Southern Libraries Special Collections, was published in 1941 by Georgia's WPA. Sponsored by the City of Savannah ; directed by W. Murdock Martin, project supervisor, it is included in the CCC Oral History interviews from Fort Pulaski because of related content.

Ua30/1/1 A New Rotc Building, Wku Planning, Design & Construction, J. M. Ingram

WKU Archives Records

A New ROTC Building for Western Kentucky State Teachers College, J.M. Ingram, no #, no date, 4 sheets, 23 ½ x 18, Scale 1/8”=1”. Set includes a front elevation and floor plans for ground floor, first and second floors.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 23, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Archives Records

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. includes letter from Henry Cherry advertising the debate program between WKU and Asbury College. Debaters were Paul Huddleston and Coy Parsley discussing the power of the Supreme Court.

County Government In Westmoreland, Ray Elwood Reid

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Economic Aspects Of The Boulder Canyon Project, Leonard Mckaig

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The recent passage of the Swing-Johnson bill by Congress and its approval by the President has been the signal for a general rejoicing throughout the West, and especially in Southern California, the section to be meet directly benefited by this legislation. There has been a widespread feeling that the long fight for Federal development of this great western river is over, and that we may begin shortly to realize some concrete returns upon our investment. Press reports indicate that many are already seeking work on the construction of the dam at Black Canyon, in anticipation of the immediate launching of …

Maine Forts, Henry E. Dunnack

Maine Collection

Maine Forts by Henry E. Dunnack, State Librarian.

Foreword by Percival P. Baxter, Govenor of Maine, State Capitol, Augusta - September 1, 1924.

Sections include: Introduction, Fort Machias, Fort Knox, Fort St.George's, Fort Edgecomb, Forts Popham and Baldwin, North and South Sugar Loaf Islands, Fort McClary, Indians and Their Wars, Fortifications in Maine , List of Old Forts.

An Alphabetical Index Of Revolutionary Pensioners Living In Maine, Charles Alcott Flagg

Maine Collection

An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine

by Charles Alcott Flagg (1870-1920)

"Limited Edition of 200 Copies." Reprinted from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Dover, Maine 1920.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly. This issue focuses on agriculture and home economics.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly. This issue focuses on the Summer School and veterans of World War I.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 2, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on the Students' Army Training Corps and students who served in World War I. There is also a biographical sketch of Henry Cherry.

Ua3/1/3 Scrapbook - General Subjects 1916-1918, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created in the president's office of clippings related to World War I, Henry Cherry's bid for governor and United States politics during the war. Page number correspond to original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• . . . Tells How He'd March to Mexico, p. 17
• A Perfect Picture of German Work, p. 34
• A Veritable Flashlight, p. 19
• Abercrombie, John. Speech, Congressional Record, June 2, 1916, p. 12
• Addresses Made at Flag Raising, 1917 p.9
• All Kentucky is in Food Crusade, p. 13
• America at War in Self Defense, Declares Lane, p. 11
• America Now at Point …

Eighteenth Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees For The Waterworks And Improvement Bonds Of The City Of Jacksonville, Florida. 1912, Jacksonville Florida Board Of Trustees For The Water Works And Improvement Bonds

Books

A report on waterworks, infrastructure, public and Municipal services for Jacksonville, their problems and possible solutions. Also in PALMM

Advertisement Card: Steamer Swan Florida Coastal Inland Navigation Co. Canal Line; 1911

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Schedule Effective October 31, 1911. Steamer Swan: Florida Coastal Inland Navigation co.

History Of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth Regiment Of Foot : Eight Months' Service Men Of 1775 From York County ; With A Full Account Of Their Movements During The Battle Of Bunker Hill And Complete Muster Rolls Of The Companies, Nathan Goold

Maine Collection

History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth Regiment of Foot : Eight Months' Service Men of 1775 from York County ; With a Full Account of Their Movements During the Battle of Bunker Hill and Complete Muster Rolls of the Companies

by Nathan Goold

"Reprinted From the Maine Historical Society's Quarterly"

The Thurston Print, Portland, Maine, 1899.

North Kingstown In The Revolution, Mildred Wayne Harvey

Student and Lippitt Prize essays

Documents the patriotic efforts of North Kingstown, Rhode Island during the American Revolution, with notable acknowledgements to George Babcock and Samuel Phillips.

A Rhode Island Patriot, Alfred Willson Bosworth

Student and Lippitt Prize essays

Chronicles the life and patriotism of Bristol, Rhode Island native Benjamin Bosworth, including his ancestry.

Circular No. 1, Jacksonville Ferry Company, Jacksonville, Fla, D T. Jack

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Circular No. 1, Jacksonville Ferry company, Jacksonville, Fla; February 1, 1890

Thomas S. Jesup Letter Regarding The Brig "Baltimore," 1849., Thomas Sidney Jesup

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Jesup was a Major General in the U.S. Army. This letter concerns the Brig “Baltimore,” which wasn’t seaworthy at the time it was chartered. Jesup writes that the owners have no legal claim to any charter money.

'Farewell' Address To The People Of The United States, Announcing His Intention Of Retiring From Public Life At The Expiration Of The Present Constitutional Term Of Presidency, George Washington

Zea E-Books in American Studies

President George Washington’s farewell address “To the People of the United States” was delivered to the public through the medium of the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser newspaper and was immediately reprinted in other newspapers and in pamphlet form throughout the country, and in England, Ireland, and Scotland as well. All contemporary editions derived directly or indirectly from the Daily Advertiser newspaper source.

The composition of the address was a collaborative effort, with James Madison co-authoring with Washington an early draft that was reviewed and revised at least twice to incorporate suggestions by Alexander Hamilton. The final draft, in Washington’s handwriting, was …

1793 License For Elizabeth Prinner(?) To Keep And Inn Or Tavern That Sells Liquor, New York City, 1793. Signed By Richard Varick, Mayor., Richard Varick, Elizabeth Prinner

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Elizabeth Prinner(?), a grocer, is granted a license to keep an "Inn or Tavern for retailing strong or spiritous liquors" until March 1, 1794. She is forbidden from keeping a "disorderly" establishment or one that permits "any Cock-fighting, Gaming, or Playing with Cards or Dice, or Keep any Billiard-Table, or other Gaming-Table, or Shuffle-Board, within the Inn" or "any Out-House, Yard or Garden belonging thereunto." Signed by Richard Varick, 45th mayor of New York City.

The Journal Of Major George Washington, George Washington

Zea E-Books in American Studies

In October of 1753, George Washington, a 21-year-old major in the Virginia militia, volunteered to carry a letter from the governor of Virginia to the French commander of the forts recently built on the headwaters of the Ohio River in northwestern Pennsylvania. The French had recently expanded their military operations from the Great Lakes into the Ohio country, and had spent the summer of 1753 building forts and roads along the Allegheny River, with the design of linking their trade routes and sphere of influence down the Ohio to the Mississippi. Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie believed them to be in …

A Declaration Of The Sad And Great Persecution And Martyrdom Of The People Of God, Called Quakers, In New-England, For The Worshipping Of God, Edward Burroughs

Zea E-Books in American Studies

From 1656 through 1661, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced an “invasion” of Quaker missionaries, who were not deterred by the increasingly severe punishments enacted and inflicted by the colonial authorities. In October 1659, two (William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson) were hanged at Boston; in June 1660, Mary Dyar (or Dyer) became the third; in March 1661, William Leddra became the fourth (and last) to suffer capital punishment or “mar-tyrdom” for their Quaker beliefs.While members of the Society of Friends rushed to Massachu-setts to test the harsh sentences under the newly enacted laws, other Friends in England simultaneously petitioned Parliament and …