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| | 481 | Author: | Dazey, Charles Turner, 1855-1938. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | In Old Kentucky: a Play in Four Acts
1893 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1893 | | | | Abstract: | Bound autograph manuscript written in ink, in the vernacular. The play is about a Kentucky mountain girl who wins the heart of a
young aristocrat by racing a horse. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 483 | Author: | Neuman, Daniel Saheyause, 1869- | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Letters to the Teachers of the Alaska School Services
1911-1912 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1911-1912 | | | | Abstract: | Eight copies of holograph letters; part of a series to teachers of Eskimo children in the Alaska School Service,
Northwestern District, from Dr. Neuman, and dated 1911 to 1912. The first letter says that the purpose is to instruct them on
medical matters supplementary to his book. Symptoms and treatments of diseases like respiratory illness, rickets, measles, scarlet
fever, eye diseases, and fevers are discussed. Certain local living conditions are cited as contributing toward the illnesses.
Three of the letters contain general diagnostic techniques for use with children. Colored pencil illustrations are included in
some of the letters. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Children -- Diseases -- Diagnosis -- Alaska. | Children -- Health and hygiene -- Alaska. | Eskimos -- Medical care -- Alaska. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 485 | Author: | Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Comrades
1908 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1908 | | | | Abstract: | Bound holograph manuscript of Comrades, a romantic novel with anti-socialism themes. Written in pencil, it contains Dixon's corrections.
The first page of this manuscript is signed; the last page concludes with the date, "Sat. Eve., Dec. 5, 1908." | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Socialism -- California. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 487 | Author: | Collier, John, 1901-1980. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | One-act Plays and Publicity Material
1943 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1943 | | | | Abstract: | Two holographic manuscripts of one-act plays that Collier adapted from short stories. The Old Women was adapted
from The Needle by André de Lorde, and The Mask was adapted from Behind the Mask by H. M. Harwood and Tennyson Jesse.
Also present are newspaper clippings about the performances and the theater, as well as a playbill. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Horror plays. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 488 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | The Head of the House of Coombe
1920-1922 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1920-1922 | | | | Abstract: | Original holographic manuscript, unbound and undated. Written in both pen and pencil, it contains her edits. The last page of the
manuscript is different from that of the published book, being condensed into one concluding paragraph. The novel is about social
complexities in the life of a girl growing up in London, just before the outbreak of World War I. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 489 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Robin
1922 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1922 | | | | Abstract: | Original holographic manuscript, unbound and incomplete, and missing the first half of the story. The manuscript starts
with chapter 20, which corresponds to chapter 21 in the published book. Written in both pen and pencil, it contains her edits.
Some duplicate typescript chapters are also present. The novel is about a young woman's love for a soldier,
set in England during World War I. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 490 | Author: | Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Homer Leroy Shantz
papers,
1903-1958 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches,
survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining to
Shantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various trips
to Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for the
Smithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African Education
Commission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africa
encompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, including
Swahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specific
problems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and race
relations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile,
Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape,
villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documented
include cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a large
bamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Plant ecology -- Africa | Plant ecology -- United States | Vegetation surveys -- South America | Vegetation surveys -- Colorado | Vegetation surveys -- Africa | Swahili language -- Dictionaries -- English | English language -- Dictionaries -- Swahili | Agriculture -- Africa | Soils -- Africa | Agriculture -- United States | Soils -- United States | Africa -- Description and travel | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 491 | Author: | Couldock, C. W. (Charles Walter), 1815-1898. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Charles Walter Couldock scrapbook
1815-1898 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1815-1898 | | | | Abstract: | Scrapbook containing chiefly photoengraved portraits; some original engravings are also present. Also included are press reviews which
describe plays in New Orleans and San Francisco in which Couldock, and his daughter Eliza Couldock, performed. Two letters are present.
One from 1862 refers to the London appearance of E.A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary; the other, from 1871, was written to Couldock from the
actress Charlotte Cushman. The portraits cover a broad spectrum of famous people, particularly rulers, statesmen, military leaders, the
nobility, and authors. Others included are actors and actresses, musicians, scientists, artists, and explorers. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Authors -- Portraits. | Kings and rulers -- Portraits. | Nobility -- Portraits. | Statesmen -- Portraits. | Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 495 | Author: | Smith, Steadman. Collector | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | The Horseless Carriage Collection of Automobile History
1893-1965
(bulk 1938-1955) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1893-1965 | | | | Abstract: | The Horseless Carriage Collection of Automobile History consist of pamphlets, magazines, promotional reports, newspaper articles, advertisements, calendars, newsletters, photographs, and other pictorial items relating to the history and development of the automobile, dated 1893 to 1965. Most are items distributed by car-related businesses in the 1940s and 1950s. Earlier materials are nostalgic reprints of turn-of-the-century materials. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Horseless Carriage Club | Antique and classic cars | Automobile rallies—History | Automobile industry and trade—History | Automobiles—Societies, etc. | Automobiles—Pictorial works | Automobiles—Collectors and collecting—United States | Automobiles—Social aspects—History | Automobiles—Design and construction—History | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 496 | Author: | Lister, Thomas A. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Thomas A. Lister papers
1903-1937
(bulk 1929-1933) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1937 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas A. Lister was an Entrepreneur associated with Metal Mining Properties, Lordsburg, New Mexico. Collection includes handwritten
and typescript documents pertaining mainly to Lister's mining enterprises in Grant County and Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Included
are location notices, assay reports, hand-drawn maps, blueprints, notebooks, telegrams, and other documents concerning the promotion,
sale, and lease of specific mines. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Copper mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. | Gold mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Grant County -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- History -- Sources. | Silver mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 497 | Author: | Douglas, Frances | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Frances Douglas
Papers,
1892-1963 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1892-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Contains correspondence, diaries, articles,
stories, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and translations of mostly
unpublished works by Spanish-language writers. Some of the authors are Concha
Espina de Serna, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Jose Maria Carretero,
Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Rafael Delgado, Pedro Juan
Labarthe, Jose Lopez- Portillo y Rojas, Emilia Pardo-Bazan, Jose Echegaray and
Eduardo Zamacois. Personal material consists of correspondence and family
photographs, from marriage to Charles Fletcher Lummis, and later to Courtenay
DeKalb, with whom she operated the Roadside Mine in Arizona. Photographs and
correspondence related to the mine are present. Also included are typescripts
of Douglas' published and unpublished articles, stories, and translations.
Original drawings are by E.A. Burbank and Carl Oscar Borg. Correspondence with
friends and publishers includes writers Eugene Rhodes, Henry Knibbs, Concha
Espina, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José María
Carretero, Pedro Labarthe, Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, and the publisher Phoebe
Hearst. Diaries and photographs document travels to Mexico and Europe. Stories
were recorded by Douglas while she lived among the Isleta Indians. Mexican and
U.S. newspapers, 1911-1915, report on the Mexican Revolution. Related material
in MS 39 and MS 297. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | American Association of University Women. | Spanish Literature -- 20th century -- History and
criticism. | Isleta Indians -- Legends. | Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Legends. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pima County --
History -- Sources. | Roadside Mine (Ariz.) | Women authors. | Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920. | 1900-1924. | 1925-1949. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 498 | Author: | United States. District Court (Arkansas : Western District) | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | United States District Court (Arkansas : Western District) records
1865-1895 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1865-1895 | | | | Abstract: | Includes jury summons, lists of jurors, travel and service expense vouchers for serving warrants, abstracts of compensation to posse
members and witnesses, certificates of employment on guard duty, receipts for payment of board, lodging, and travel, and an indictment
for treason, United States vs. Jackson Yearton, 1865. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Court records -- Arkansas. | Crime -- Arkansas -- History -- Sources. | Criminals -- Arkansas -- History -- Sources. | Criminology -- Indian Territory -- History -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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