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Jessie Whitesell Scrapbook - 1916-1951, Jessie Whitesell Jan 1916

Jessie Whitesell Scrapbook - 1916-1951, Jessie Whitesell

Scrapbooks

Jessie Whitesell went to Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. While there are a few elements in the book from her time as a student, the scrapbook mostly details the closing of Ward-Belmont as it went through its transformation to Belmont College.

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Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1915, Gorham Normal School Jun 1915

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1915, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Exhibition of School Work and Graduating Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 15 and 16, 1915. Address given by Rev. Lucius H. Bugbee, D. D..

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Folklore Of The Pennsylvania Germans, Isaac Shirk Simons May 1915

Folklore Of The Pennsylvania Germans, Isaac Shirk Simons

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed thesis paper completed at Franklin and Marshall College entitled, "Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans", by Isaac Shirk Simons, dated May 20, 1915. Within, Simons covers a range of topics pertaining to Pennsylvania Germans, including history, superstitions, religious sects and witchcraft.

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Myrtle Conyers' Scrapbook 1915-1916, Myrtle Conyers Jan 1915

Myrtle Conyers' Scrapbook 1915-1916, Myrtle Conyers

Scrapbooks

Myrtle Conyers attended Ward-Belmont for two years, 1914-1916.

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Judith And Emily Jordan's Scrapbook 1915-1918, Judith Jordan, Emily Jordan Jan 1915

Judith And Emily Jordan's Scrapbook 1915-1918, Judith Jordan, Emily Jordan

Scrapbooks

Judith (1895-1938) and Emily Jordan (1897-1977) were two sisters that attended Ward-Belmont during the 1915-1918 school years. Judith married Rivers McNeill Anderson and had three children: Bettie, Rivers and Judith. She died in 1938. Her sister Emily married James Anderson and the pair did not have any children. Emily died in 1977 while her husband passed a year later in 1978.

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Rachel Abernathy's Scrapbook 1915-1916, Rachel Abernathy Jan 1915

Rachel Abernathy's Scrapbook 1915-1916, Rachel Abernathy

Scrapbooks

Rachel Abernathy went to Ward-Belmont during the 1915-1916 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

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Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1914, Gorham Normal School Jun 1914

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1914, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Examination of Classes and Graduating Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 16 and 17, 1914. Address given by Rev A. Z. Conrad, D. D..

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Addie Forman Young's Scrapbook Ii, 1914-1915, Addie Foreman Young Jan 1914

Addie Forman Young's Scrapbook Ii, 1914-1915, Addie Foreman Young

Scrapbooks

Addie Forman Young was born on November 3, 1896, in Morganfield, Kentucky. She attended Ward-Belmont from 1913-1914. She married Thomas Price Lilly on November 12, 1919, and the pair moved to Kentucky where Thomas worked in a variety of positions. They had three children: Robert, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Addie died on June 20, 1973, with Thomas passing on May 31, 1986.

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Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1913, Gorham Normal School Jun 1913

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1913, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Examination of Classes and Graduating Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 17 and 18, 1913. Address given by Rev. Jesse Hill, D. D..

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Alan Seeger Letter From Paris, 1913, Alan Seeger May 1913

Alan Seeger Letter From Paris, 1913, Alan Seeger

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Alan Seeger, 1888–1916, American poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1910. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in battle in 1916. He is famous for his war poem, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death.” Classmate of T.S. Eliot. In this letter, Seeger talks about his arrival (in September, 1912) and accommodations in Paris, and comments upon the current political and spiritual culture of France.

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Connecticut Soldiers In The Pequot War Of 1637 (1913), James Shepard Jan 1913

Connecticut Soldiers In The Pequot War Of 1637 (1913), James Shepard

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“With Proof of Service, a Brief Record for Identification, and References to Various Publications in Which Further Data May Be Found.”

The plan of the compiler is to present, for the first time, a complete list of the Connecticut men in the Pequot War, as given in various compilations of the several authors who have made a special study of the subject in connection with the history of one or more of the three river towns; together with the places from which they are said to have enlisted and the authority for the same. We have not attempted to verify …

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Addie Forman Young's Scrapbook I, 1913-1914, Addie Foreman Young Jan 1913

Addie Forman Young's Scrapbook I, 1913-1914, Addie Foreman Young

Scrapbooks

Addie Forman Young was born on November 3, 1896, in Morganfield, Kentucky. She attended Ward-Belmont from 1913-1914. She married Thomas Price Lilly on November 12, 1919, and the pair moved to Kentucky where Thomas worked in a variety of positions. They had three children: Robert, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Addie died on June 20, 1973, with Thomas passing on May 31, 1986.

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Addie Forman Young's Scrapbook Iii, 1913-1914, Addie Foreman Young Jan 1913

Addie Forman Young's Scrapbook Iii, 1913-1914, Addie Foreman Young

Scrapbooks

Addie Forman Young was born on November 3, 1896, in Morganfield, Kentucky. She attended Ward-Belmont from 1913-1914. She married Thomas Price Lilly on November 12, 1919, and the pair moved to Kentucky where Thomas worked in a variety of positions. They had three children: Robert, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Addie died on June 20, 1973, with Thomas passing on May 31, 1986.

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The Lewiston Of Today, 1913, City Of Lewiston Jan 1913

The Lewiston Of Today, 1913, City Of Lewiston

Lewiston, Maine

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June 21, 1912: Political Cartoon, Archives Jun 1912

June 21, 1912: Political Cartoon, Archives

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

A political cartoon for The Post of William Howard Taft dressed up as Hamlet and holding the skull of Teddy Roosevelt.

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Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1912, Gorham Normal School Jun 1912

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1912, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Examination of Classes. Held in Gorham, Maine June 18, 1912.

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April 9, 1912: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, John Cornell Bradrick Apr 1912

April 9, 1912: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, John Cornell Bradrick

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

A water damaged letter to Geneva Cornell from nephew John Cornell Bradrick; detailing his plan to get and share a bike with Tom.

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Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1911, Gorham Normal School Jun 1911

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1911, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Examination of Classes. Held in Gorham, Maine June 20, 1911.

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Eastern Maine Real Estate Company Meeting Minutes; May 25, 1911 - Dec 26, 1917, Eastern Maine Real Estate Company Jan 1911

Eastern Maine Real Estate Company Meeting Minutes; May 25, 1911 - Dec 26, 1917, Eastern Maine Real Estate Company

Eastern Real Estate Company Archives

Meeting minutes from the Eastern Maine Real Estate Company, covering May 25, 1911 through December 26, 1917.

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May 20, 1910: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, Jacob Burgner May 1910

May 20, 1910: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, Jacob Burgner

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

No abstract provided.

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Church Record Book, 1910-1952, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.) Jan 1910

Church Record Book, 1910-1952, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

Ledger contains administrative records of the church including membership lists, lists of officers, business meeting minutes, and financial records. The bulk of the meeting minutes are from 1910-1933, and the membership lists date from 1920 - 1950s.

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Fearsome Creatures Of The Lumberwoods: With A Few Desert And Mountain Beasts, William T. Cox, Coert Du Bois Jan 1910

Fearsome Creatures Of The Lumberwoods: With A Few Desert And Mountain Beasts, William T. Cox, Coert Du Bois

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

Every lumber region has its lore. Thrilling tales of adventure are told in camp wherever the logger has entered the wilderness. The lumber jack is an imaginative being, and a story loses none of its interest as it is carried and repeated from one camp to another. Stories which I know to have originated on the Penobscot and the Kennebec are told, somewhat strengthened and improved, in the redwood camps of Humboldt Bay. Yarns originating among the river drivers of the Ottawa, the St. Croix, and the upper Mississippi are respun to groups of listening loggers on Vancouver Island. But …

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Wonder-Working Providence Of Sions Saviour In New England 1628-1651, Edward Johnson, J. Franklin Jameson Jan 1910

Wonder-Working Providence Of Sions Saviour In New England 1628-1651, Edward Johnson, J. Franklin Jameson

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Late in the year 1653, but under date of 1654, Nathaniel Brooke, a London publisher, "at the Angel in Cornhill," brought out a small octavo book of two hundred and thirty-six pages, entitled A History of New-England, from the English planting in the Yeere 1628 untill the Yeere 1652, etc. The title, inexact in any case, for the book is rather a history of Massachusetts than of all New England, was evidently affixed by the publisher. His advertisements show that at one time he thought of giving the book the title Historicall Relation of the First Planting of the English …

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Ethel Steven's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Ethel Steven Jan 1910

Ethel Steven's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Ethel Steven

Scrapbooks

Ethel Steven went to Belmont College for Young Women from 1910 to 1911. She received a certificate of second year completion from Belmont College’s School of Music.

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1609-1909. The Dutch In New Netherland And The United States Jan 1909

1609-1909. The Dutch In New Netherland And The United States

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CONTENTS
Directors of the Chamber
Constitution of the Chamber
Contract with Henry Hudson (Original text)
Contract with Henry Hudson (English Translation)

The Dutch in New Netherland and the United States -- pp. 19-73

NEW NETHERLAND
Exploration of the Hudson in 1609
Fur traders 1609-1612
Block's exploration of Long Island Sound and formation of the United New Netherland Company
Chartering of the West India Co. in 1621
First settlers arrived under leadership of Jesse de Forest
Claims of Holland and England
Captain May, first head of the Colony
Pieter Minuit, first Governor
Erection of Fort Amsterdam
Patroons and the Act of …

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Ethel Warnock's Scrapbook 1909-1910, Ethel Warnock Jan 1909

Ethel Warnock's Scrapbook 1909-1910, Ethel Warnock

Scrapbooks

Ethel Warnock went to Belmont College for Young Women during the 1909-1910 school year. She created this scrapbook during her time there

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Frances Cox's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Frances Cox Jan 1909

Frances Cox's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Frances Cox

Scrapbooks

Frances Cox attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1909-1910.

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Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

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Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

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Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

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