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In this first year of the Society’s third century, please help the library to fulfill its mission of collecting one copy of EVERYTHING printed in America through the year 1876 by participating in our annual Adopt-a-Book program. On April 5, 2013, the American Antiquarian Society held its sixth annual Adopt-a-Book fundraiser at Antiquarian Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. Struck Catering donated hor d'oeuvres and the drinks were flowing; a beautiful reproduction of a 1878 view of Worcester, donated by L.B. Wheaton, was auctioned off. Support of this program aids the Society’s curators as they pursue new acquisitions for the collection. And you (or the person you choose to honor with your adoption) are forever associated with a particular volume or print or newspaper in the Society’s collection. The 2013 Adopt-a-Book catalog is available below. This listing of over 120 objects includes material from each curatorial area, from manuscripts, newspapers and children’s literature, to prints, maps, broadsides and books. This year the catalog includes cookbooks, children’s books about nature, a manuscript written by a museum proprietor, prints of an actress or a dramatic rescue, and newspapers from around the nation. When you find an image/volume you like in the catalog below, click on it to read a description and follow the link at the bottom to adopt. What it does it mean to "adopt" a book?
For questions, please contact Elizabeth Watts Pope, Curator of Books [epope@mwa.org]. We thank you for your support of this initiative! Select from the catalog below: |
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B A 6
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M A 1
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B A 1
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B A 2
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B A 3
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"Thank you for putting us together" |
To the Letter |
Don't count your adoptions before they... |
Fundraising, 19th-century style |
A Tour de Horse |
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Outlines Illustrative of Fanny Kemble...
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Francis Windstrand Letter
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Don't Count Your Chickens
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Sheridan's Ride
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Catalogue of trotting stock
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B A 4
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GA A 1
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GA A 2
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GA A 3
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N A 1
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A French Lesson
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Strike a Pose! |
A Steamy Adoption |
America's Got Talent (1855) |
Singers: Keep Mouth Shut in Cold Weather
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French and English Lesson
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National Theatre
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Boston and Charleston...
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School Exhibition
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Newport Musical Journal
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CL A 2
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CL A 3
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CL A 4
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CL A 5
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GA A 4
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Charming stories of charming children |
Mummy's wheat is fun to eat |
A daisy by any other name |
The First Fruits of Hebrew |
The Ugly Side of History |
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Two Gray Girls
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Hints About Planting
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London Daisy
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Fruits and Blossoms
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White Republic Against...
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B A 5
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CL A 1
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N A 2
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GA A 5
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M A 2
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Japan through American eyes
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A "Tweet" Children's Book |
Brush up your German |
Orange you glad I'm up for adoption? |
Through the post
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Historical Sketch of the Missions
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Child's History of Birds
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Härrisburger Morgenröthe |
Aurantia Grove, East Florida
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Postmaster's Record
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B 1
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CL 1
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GA 1
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M 1
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N 1
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Book, Blotter, or Both? |
Stranger Danger |
I Must have the Name of your Decorator! |
Never To Die! |
Mitt and Obama, 1844 Style |
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Dreka's Dictionary Blotter
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History of Red Riding Hood
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Bailey Auction Broadside
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Eliza Wetmore Ward, Poetry
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Clay Tribune (NY, NY)
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B 2
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CL 2
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GA 2
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M 2
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N 2
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“Northern Tree Peddlar and Perhaps Abolitionist”
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Black and White |
Notice How Nicely Printed … and Then Buy a Press |
Candy, Coffee, Wallets, Combs, Knives, & Books |
Mitt and Obama, 1844 style (again)
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L.C. Lishy’s Abridged Catalogue
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The Slave’s Friend
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Cylinder & Job Printing Presses
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Howell & Rogers, Ledger
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Sober Second Thought
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B 3
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CL 3
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GA 3
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M 3
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N 3
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Detroit 2100: Geodesic Dome, Anyone? |
Fun in the Tub |
Pictures So Big, They Don’t Fit in the Book |
Very Troublesome Pieces of Paper |
The Path to Adoption |
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Stowe’s Poetical Drifts of Thought
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At Home
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Eva’s Foreboding
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Sarah Howe, Diary, 1852-1869
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The National Pathfinder (Nashville, TN)
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B 4
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CL 4
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GA 4
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M 4
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N 4
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Google Earth View of New Jersey, 19th Century Style |
The Young Artist |
Past Political Pasters |
Do You Know What it Means, to Adopt from New Orleans? |
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Atlas of Bergen County, New Jersey
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The Juvenile Keepsake
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Herein Please Find Some Pasters
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Additions to the Whitin & Sons Papers
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The Iris, or Orleans Evening Post (New Orleans, LA)
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B 5
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CL 5
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GA 5
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M 5
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N 5
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Las Escuelas, Schools in the U.S. and Argentina |
Rogues on the Loose |
Don’t Miss the Boat! Adopt! |
Yes, the Dictionary People |
A Plea for Adoption |
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Las Escuelas: Base de la Prosperidad
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Two Notorious Rogues
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Boats, Sloops, Steamships and Yachts
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Additions for G. & C. Merriam Business Records
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Plea for the Oppressed and Enslaved (Austinburg, OH)
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B 6
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CL 6
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GA 6
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M 6
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N 6
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Why We Need a Newspaper Hanging from Every Door |
Alone in the Library |
Inspired by Bunyan |
Get a Proper Outfit |
An Elephant Never Forgets an Adoption |
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Importance of Every Family Reading...
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History of Goody Two-Shoes
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Mercy at the Wicket Gate
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Hugh Heron, letter to E. Everett, 1876
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The Elephant (New York, NY)
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B 7
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CL 7
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GA 7
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M 7
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N 7
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What Early Yalies Read |
Bad Boys Made to Rue Their Conduct |
No Dense, Lazy People Need Apply |
Be Just and Fear Not |
Panama! |
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Catalogue in the Linonian
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History of Good Boys and Girls
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Jones, Junkin & Company, Subscription Book
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Augustus Gill, Penmanship Book
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Aspinwall Courier. (Aspinwall, Panama)
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B 8
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CL 8
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GA 8
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M 8
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N 8
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Birds Playing Poker |
Call the Fire Department! |
Good Girl Gets Grapes |
Poor Record Keeping |
Welcome to Otterville |
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Van Etten Bros., Manufacturers, importers...
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Danger of Fire
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Certificate of Merit for Miss M. Parington
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R. St. John, accounts Overseers of the Poor
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First Division Proclamation (Otterville, MO)
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B 9
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CL 9
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GA 9
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M 9
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N 9
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“Shakspere” for Dummies |
That Tricky Jumbo |
Shake off Winter Blues |
Insurance and Books |
Write Home about This Adoption! |
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The Works of Shakspere [salesman’s dummy]
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Jumbo and the Countryman
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General Stage Office, Chenango House
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Thomas Beal, Account book, 1809-1810
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Soldier’s Letter (Kansas City, MO; Fort Riley, KS).
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B 10
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CL 10
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GA 10
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M 10
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N 10
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Fifty Parts of “Shakspere” |
Art in the Nursery |
59 Barrels of Rye on the Wall, 59 Barrels of Rye…. |
Leeches |
Adopt an Amateur |
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The Works of Shakspere
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Pictures for Baby to Draw
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Gauged & Inspected
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Moses Kimball, Journal, 1850-1851
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The Club (Chicago, IL)
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B 11
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CL 11
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GA 11
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M 11
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N 11
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“A Masterpiece of Wonder and Marvel!” |
Our Sunday Walk with Fido |
War? No - Buy Books! |
Fact or Fiction? |
I Advocate You Adopt Me
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Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues...
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Children’s Book for Sabbath Hours
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Eclectic Monthly. Beautiful Portraits
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Young Woman's Expenses, 1832
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Columbian Advocate (Germantown, PA)
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B 12
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CL 12
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GA 12
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M 12
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N 12
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Early Sex Ed Book Sold by “Flying Stationers” |
Nature Talks |
Stop and Adopt! |
Cincinnati Accounts |
Better Late Than… |
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Aristotle’s Master-piece...
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Mary Peabody Mann’s The Flower People
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Stop Thief! Broadside
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Browne Account Book, 1844-1846
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Cornucopia (Batavia, NY)
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B 13
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CL 13
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GA 13
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M 13
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N 13
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Flower Garden with a Hawaiian Connection |
Birding for Children |
Richmond Loves Masons |
Running the Gamut |
A Major Newspaper for Adoption |
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Laura Gordon Munson. Flowers from My Garden
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Cecil’s Book of Birds
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Prospectus of a New Periodical Work
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The Gamut: Or, Scale of Music
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Major Downing’s Advocate
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B 14
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CL 14
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GA 14
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M 14
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N 14
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Love, Poetry and Flowers All Bound Up Beautifully
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Feely Binding |
No Place Like Home |
Razor Blades |
Don’t smoke this Cuban, adopt it |
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Love’s Token-Flowers
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Harry’s Stories
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Old Farm at Home
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William Emery Nickerson Scrapbook
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Diario de la Marina (Havana, Cuba)
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B 15
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CL 15
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GA 15
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M 15
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N 15
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Better than an Apple, Give Your Teacher a Book! |
Fairy Queen |
Yes, But Does She Offer School Choice? |
Congregational Sermons |
Adopt an upstate New Yorker
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Oration, Delivered to the Society of Black Friars
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Blue Ribbons: A Story of the Last Century
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Chegaray’s Boarding and Day School
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Jonathan Huse Papers, 1795-1842
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Republican Advocate (Batavia, NY)
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B 16
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CL 16
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GA 16
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M 16
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N 16
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Scriptural Plants |
Pop-Up History |
Sweat vs. Suits |
From Phoenix to Montezuma |
All the news that is fit to adopt
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Plants of the Holy Land
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Little Folks’ History of the United States
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I Feed You All! [chromo]
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Thomas Childs, Diary, 1826-1834
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Fort Madison Argus (Fort Madison, IA)
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B 17
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CL 17
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GA 17
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M 17
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N 17
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Color Your Own Fairy Tale
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Mining for Southern Imprints |
Who Needs Bloomers? Join the Theater! |
A School Book for Hattie |
For the record, please adopt me. |
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“Aunt Abbie.” The Fairy Grotto
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Inexhaustible Mine
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Miss M.A. Gannon. The Dramatic Wonder
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George Winsor Jr., Ledger
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Daily State Record (Topeka, KS)
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B 18
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CL 18
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GA 18
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M 18
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N 18
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Let the Flowers Do the Talking |
Don’t Wake Mommy |
It is Your Duty to Adopt |
Russian Salve and Shaker Brooms |
The cola that refreshes AAS |
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Language of Flowers
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Minnie or The Little Woman
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Currier & Ives, Brave Wife
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Apothecary Ledger
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Pensacola Gazette
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B 19
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CL 19
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GA 19
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M 19
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N 19
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Unique Rainbow Deck of Recipe Cards |
Parrot Fish on Parade |
Got Stone? |
Geography, Handwritten |
The cola that refreshes AAS (again!) |
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Home Receipts for Every Family
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Byerly’s New American Spelling-Book
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Gardner Monumental Works
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Fitch's Geography for Beginners, [1850-1858]
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Pensacola Gazette and Florida Advertiser
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B 20
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CL 20
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GA 20
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M 20
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N 20
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Learn to Press Your Own Cider!
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Big Game Hunting |
I am Big, Beautiful, Emotive, and Very 19th-century. Adopt me! |
Letters of an Itinerant Bookseller |
I call them like I lyceum
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Cider Makers’ Manual
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Hunters and Trappers
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Le Golgotha
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Isaac Smith Papers
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Independent Ledger
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B 21
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CL 21
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GA 21
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M 21
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N 21
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Rare Reconstruction-Era Southern Cookbook |
Children at Play |
Before Judy Garland Made it Famous |
Revolutionary Era Sermons |
California, Here I Come!
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The Art of Good Living
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Wee Elsie’s Picture-Book
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Map Traversed by the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railroad
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Ebenezer Thayer Sermons, 1779-1790 |
Hutchings' California Magazine
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