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2017.8.022 - Book
The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Fiftieth Congress 1887-88, Volume 12- in two parts. Part 2
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2017.8.023 - Book
The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Fiftieth Congress, 1887-'89. Volume 24
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2018.1.001 - Cookbook
A compilation of recipes acquired by Helen Holdredge when researching Mary Ellen Pleasant (1815-1904). Pleasant was a freed slave who was said to have "cooked her way to fame, fortune and power" across America. Her original recipes are interspersed with tales of her life and ink illustrations of where she lived.
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2018.1.002 - Book
History of (references to) quicksilver going back to ancient Greece, Rome, and the Persian Empire. Language of origin included with English translations. Also includes "statements on quicksilver discoveries and mining in California, by persons who witnessed or participated in these interesting events". This includes Joseph Warren Revere (c. 1846), Rev. C. S. Lyman (c. 1848), Mrs. S. A. Downer (c. 1854), and John Keast Lord (c. 1860), who visite...
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2018.1.003 - Book
This appears to be a technical booklet in Spanish about the Almaden Mine in Spain. It is an abstract of the doctoral thesis defended publicly on October 27, 1984, in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Salamanca in Spain.
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2018.1.006 - Book
This book contains the "Testimony of the Qualified Electors and Legal Voters of New Almaden" regarding a contested election suggesting that mine officials pressured their employees to vote a certain way.
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2019.8.027 - Book
Collection of articles written by Wes Peyton : San Jose:A Personal View by Wes Peyton.
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