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Document

"Demention [sic] of a Thrashing Machine"

[1800 ca.]

Detailed description of James Tod's threshing machine.

GLC02794.177

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Book signed

Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica

1912

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Also authored by Lou Henry Hoover. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 and published by the Mining Magazine, Salisbury House, London, England. Inscribed by Hoover to Edwin A. Elsbach. De Re Metallica or "On the Nature of Metals" was...

GLC02796

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Pamphlet

The Dred Scott Decision

1860

Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864

A pamphlet containing Taney's ruling in the Dred Scott case, as well as two articles asserting the inferiority of "the negro race." One is an introduction by Van Evrie stating "the Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott decision, has defined the relations...

GLC04393

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Autograph letter signed

to J. Dorsey re: progress in manufactures, system of weights & measures, decimal

1808/01/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

GLC04491

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Header Record

Collection of two items related to Samuel F. B. Morse [Decimalized .01-.02]

September 14, 1849

GLC04480