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| | 525 | Author: | Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Liberal Education
1940-1943 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1940-1943 | | | | Abstract: | Original typescript with holographic corrections; printer's copy. This work is a treatise on liberal arts education,
specifically its role in colleges and universities. The historical definitions of education, the idea of a college, the art
of teaching, and the philosophy of learning are subjects which are addressed. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States. | Education, Humanistic -- United States -- Philosophy. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Finance -- United States. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 526 | Author: | Forbes, Henry Clinton, 1833-1903. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Henry Clinton Forbes collection
1862-1955
(bulk 1892-1902) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1862-1955 | | | | Abstract: | Henry Clinton Forbes, 1833-1903, was a poet, teacher, farmer and colonel in the 7th Illinois Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers, 1862-1865.
Four volumes in one, 557 pages, of holographic poems by Henry C. Forbes. Written in ink, they are noted as being in final revised form.
In the prologue to Volume 1, and in the dedication to Volume 4, he explains his motivations for writing poetry. Appended typescript
copies by his son, Robert Forbes, include letters, biographical material, and his father's account of Grierson's Calvary Raid
in Vicksburg, 1863. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863 -- Personal narratives. | Lyric poetry. | Pastoral poetry, American. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 527 | Author: | Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Hamlin Garland letters
circa 1900-1925 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1900-1925 | | | | Abstract: | Hamlin Garland, 1860-1940, was a Novelist, essayist and short story writer; Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1921. Portfolio contains 27 signed
holograph letters and 2 cards sent by Garland to Orlando Rouland and Mrs. Rouland, regarding Orlando's portrait of Garland.
A black-and-white postcard depicts Garland's residence in Salem, Wisconsin. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 528 | Author: | United States. Army. Ambulance Service. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Official Report of the Chief of the United States Army Ambulance Service with the French Army, to the Surgeon General of the Army
1919 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1919 | | | | Abstract: | The United States Army Ambulance Service, also known as the USAAS, was created by presidential order May 18, 1917, for the duration of
the "existing emergency." This original typescript relates the history of the Ambulance Service with the French Army on the
Western Front, during WWI. A signed introduction by Col. Percy L. Jones, Paris, April 15, 1919, states that the report is in compliance
with instructions given by the Surgeon General, Nov. 27, 1918. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Ambulance service -- France -- History -- 20th century. | Ambulances -- History -- 20th century. | Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- France. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 529 | Author: | Reyna de León, Carmela. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | La voz de la sangre paisajes y leyendas del distrito de Altar
circa 1960-1969 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1960-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Photocopy of typescript compilation of legends and historic accounts, as told to Carmela Reyna de León by her family and friends
living in the Altar region of Sonora, Mexico. A few song verses are present. Also included is a photocopied letter, with translation,
written by the author to Norman Simons of Tucson, Ariz., dated Oct. 5, 1965. It concerns the possible translation of this volume. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Legends -- Mexico -- Altar. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 531 | Author: | Castillero R., Ernesto J. (Ernesto de Jesús Castillero Reyes), 1889-1981. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Los Nueve Secretos de Art
1916 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1916 | | | | Abstract: | Holograph notebook with twelve formulas for crafts and decorative artwork using textiles, paper, photographs, metals, and glass.
Notebook is signed, and includes a place and date: "Antón, noviembre de 1916." In addition to the directions for each
formula are color mixtures, lists of materials used, and their total cost. Illustrated with a few small explanatory drawings.
Formulas include those for incrusting and engraving glass; illuminating photographic portraits; painting on velvet, corduroy,
and satin; making pictures of bronze; and constructing fruits and flowers. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Decoration and ornament -- Panama. | Handicraft -- Panama. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 532 | Author: | Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Spanish poems, ballads and proverbs
1846-1893 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1846-1893 | | | | Abstract: | Approximately 385 handwritten leaves of poems, ballads and proverbs from Spain, which were collected by Antonio Machado y Alvarez, in the late
nineteenth century. The largest grouping is Poesia popular, coplas, refranes; his titles on the other sections are Buenaven[turas?],
Miscelaneas, Oldivnan[za?], Supersticione[s], Coplas, Tradiciones, Romances popular[es], and Juegos infantiles. They may have been materials for
the 11-volume work he edited, Biblioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Españoles. Also included is a printed four-page leaflet
entitled, "Exposición," 1885, discussing the Professor Machado y Alvarez, his work, folklore societies in Spain, and the importance
of folklore in general. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Folklore -- Spain -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 533 | Author: | Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Balloon: a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts
circa 1920 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1920 | | | | Abstract: | Carbon typescript of Balloon, a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts. The first page contains the holographic inscription: "Early version of Balloon,
my own typing. For the Thomas Wood Stevens Collection, a tribute to a valued friendship, Padraic Colum." The play is set at the Dadaelus Hotel
in Nagalapolis, changed to Megalapolis in the published version, and is a satire of industrial society. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 534 | Author: | Tiernan, B. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | B. Tiernan letter
1900 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1900 | | | | Abstract: | Holograph letter written to Harvey Whitehill, Sheriff of Grant Co., New Mexico, dated March 26, 1900. It was sent from Tiernan's office
in Galveston, Texas. The letter recounts his 1880 arrival in the Territory of New Mexico and his first meeting with Sheriff Whitehill. It also
relates their encounter with Victorio's band of Apaches on Copper Creek, northwest of Silver City, and their subsequent rescue by the 6th
Cavalry regiment under Captain Madden, and the 9th regiment under Colonel Hatch. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- Wars -- Personal narratives. | Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 -- Personal narratives. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 537 | Author: | Ortíz, Juan Rafael. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Juan Rafael Ortíz memorandum
1834 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1834 | | | | Abstract: | Juan Rafael Ortiz was an official at the Governor's Office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the year that Santa Anna assumed dictatorial powers
in Mexico; the military leaders at Santa Fe agreed to support his new regime on August 1, 1834, but the coup led to civil war in New Mexico.
Under the new constitution of 1836, Ortíz was selected as a member of the first provisional Departmental Junta in 1837, and elected Deputy to the
Mexican Congress. A holograph letter is signed and dated: Juan Rafael Ortíz, Santa Fe, November 6, 1834. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 538 | Author: | Peterman, Evans Percy. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Evans Percy Peterman papers
1893-1938
(bulk 1914-1919) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1893-1938 | | | | Abstract: | Evans Percy Peterman was a Texas contractor and lieutenant in WWI; his father A.L. Peterman was a professor, salesman, and real estate agent
in Texas, several Southeastern states, and Mexico. Chiefly miscellaneous financial papers and correspondence, from 1914 to 1919, related to the
son, generally referred to as Percy Peterman in the documents. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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