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20th century fashion : 100 years of apparel ads
Creation Date: 2009Catalog ID: 2011.112.2Call Number: OVERSIZE/659/N5525/2009461 page color illustrated book (32x24.5 cm.) by Alison A. Nieder; edited by Jim Heimann, 2009. A chronicle of 20th century fashion from couture to mass market. Text in English, German and French. -
Farthest north : being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram,"..., Fram over Polhavit
Creation Date: 1897Catalog ID: 2009.171.7Call Number: 979.8/N158f/18972 volumes (25x17 cm.) by Fridtjof Nansen "being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship 'Fram' 1893-96, and a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Hjalmar Johansen; by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen; with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup. Includes 120 full-page and numerous text illustrations, 16 colored plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photogravures, and 4 maps. Published in 1897. Dark green covers with gold-colored type, including illustration of the "Fram." -
Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the N.W. coast of America : with an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka
Creation Date: 1791Catalog ID: 2007.0.275.1Call Number: 979.511/M463v/17912 v. book with front.., plates. (partly fold.) ports., fold. maps, fold. plans. 22 cm. Cover is red leather with gold accents and paper marbling. Pages uneven at all edges. -
The death of Captain Cook
Creation Date: 1978Catalog ID: 2010.125.1Call Number: 979.511/K382d/1978103 p. illustrated book (24x16 cm.) with [4] leaves of plates re. the death of Capt. James Cook. A fresh analysis of contemporary eyewitness accounts of Cook's death. Includes index and bibliography (p. 95-99). Dated 1978. -
He's got to be a lamp-black cullud man
Creation Date: 1898Catalog ID: 1972.33.196Call Number: MUSIC/784.7/S52h/1898Sheet music (1 score, 6 pages, 33x26 cm.) for voice and piano. Words by Jean G. Havez, music by A.B. Sloane. On yellow and black printed cover: "A Darktown Affair of Color" and caricature portrait of African-American with big bow tie. Published in 1898. -
Golden Playhours
Creation Date: 1863Catalog ID: 1994.1.2.196.1Call Number: CHILD./808.894/W736g/18631 v.: ill.; 24 cm. Actual edition, ca. 1905; colored illus. front cover. Two chromolithographs are included in the text: "The new puppy," and "A winter morning." -
Janet's boots, Star of Hope series, Janet's boots or the effects of disobedience
Creation Date: 1881Catalog ID: 2004.114.11Call Number: CHILD./EPH/234.6/1881Single volume (15.5x10 cm.) consisting primarily of story, Janet's Boots, "by the author of 'Finette,'" and shorter story, The Flower garden, by Mrs. E. Prentiss. Colored frontispiece. "Star of Hope" series. Elizabeth Gill's book; inscribed by same, and by J. Gill. Cover title: Janet's B Boots or the Effects of Disobedience. Ephemera. Published 1881. -
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[Matchbox two truck]
Creation Date: 1975Catalog ID: 2006.154.4Toy no. 15 fork lift made in England for Matchbox/Lesney Products & Co. Ltd., London England and Moonachie, NJ, 1975. Made of die cast metal. Red body with yellow plastic forks attached to silver colored lift. With tires and steering wheel made of black plastic. Vehicle housed in clear plastic window mounted to cardboard packaging backing. Color illustration of yellow and blue cars and red truck against a yellow background with blue border. On back is list of Matchbox toys available and order form for catalog. -
"A Map of Mackenzie's Track from Fort Chipewyan to the North Sea in 1789."
Creation Date: Oct. 15, 1801Catalog ID: 1918.15.8.2Call Number: 979.511 M199vDetailed map of the North Sea (Arctic) explorations of Alexander MacKenzie, in 1789. Map depicts the exploration route from Fort Chipewyan (Alberta, Canada) to the North Sea (Arctic Ocean). Geographic features (mountains, lakes, rivers, and forts) along MacKenzie's route are shown in detail. The map is bound into the following volume: "Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Lawrence through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793," by Alexander Mackenzie, 1801. -
"A Map of Mackenzie's Track from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean in 1793."
Creation Date: Oct. 15, 1801Catalog ID: 1918.15.8.3Call Number: 979.511 M199vDetailed map of the North sea explorations of Alexander Mackenzie in 1793. The map depicts the exploration route from Fort Chipewyan (Alberta, Canada) to the Pacific Ocean, following the Peace (Ujigah) River, upper Fraser River, and Bella Coola River, crossing to the Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola, British Columbia. The Fraser River is identified as the Columbia River, and shown as flowing into the Peace River. Major geographic features are shown in considerable detail, including mountains, rivers, lakes, Indian tribes, and forts. The map is bound into the following volume: "Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Lawrence through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793," by Alexander Mackenzie, 1801.
