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Front cover, Jurgen and the Law; a Statement with Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal, by Guy Holt, 1923

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Front cover, Up From Slavery; An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, 1901.

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Front of dust jacket of Hunter Stagg's copy of The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, 1926.

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Front of lithographic by Nora Houston placed in The Invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder, 1911.

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Frontpiece, Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books ... The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates, carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edw.d Hoppus surveyor ... and embellish'd w.th a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others. London, Printed for Benjn. Cole engraver, 1736

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Georg Sponsel

Tags: photograph

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Georg Sponsel and other party officials at the Schongau train station to welcome the children

[stamp: Copyright reserved
Public Welfare Office, Munich-Upper Bavaria Region
NSV Regional Photographic Archive
Photograph Number: _
Taken on: _
Royalty to:
NSV Regional Photographic Archive
Munich-Upper Bavaria
Postal check account number…

Tags: Hitler Youth

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Tags: Betty Tisinger Collection, Christianity, Christmas, pop-up, religion

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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for orientation. --The Encyclopedia Britannica No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. --Isaac Bashevis…

Tags: Tom Robbins

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Hindu Altars: A Pop-up Gallery of Traditional Art & Wisdom

Text by Robert Beer
Art by Peter Weltevrede
Paper Engineering by Bruce Foster
Concept by Tad Wise

Tags: Betty Tisinger Collection, devotional, Hinduism, pop-up, religion

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Hypatia, or Woman and Knowledge (1925)

Tags: feminism

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Illustration by Frank C. Papé from James Branch Cabell's of Something About Eve; A Comedy of Fig-leaves by James Branch Cabell, 1929 illustrated edition.

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Illustration by Frank C. Papé on page 39 of James Branch Cabell's copy of Something About Eve; A Comedy of Fig-leaves by James Branch Cabell, 1929 illustrated edition.

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Illustration number nine from Edmund A. Rennolds' copy of Sunset Over Monte Oliveto, by Colonel R. C. Goff from Florence and Some Tuscan Cities by Mrs. Robert Goff, 1911.

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Illustration on frontispiece and title page of James Branch Cabell' copy of Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, 1883.

Illustration showing three figures of a press found between pages 222 and 223 from The Invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder, 1911.

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Image of Booker T. Washington on frontispiece from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, 1901.

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Image of James Branch Cabell from Hunter Stagg's copy of Innocence Abroad by Emily Clark, 1931.

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In the Beginning: the Art of Genesis

Tags: Betty Tisinger Collection, Christianity, creation, Judaism, pop-up, religion

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Inscription by Booker T. Washington on inside front cover in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, by Booker T. Washington, 1901.

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Inscription by James Branch Cabell on flyleaf of The Judging of Jurgen by James Branch Cabell, 1920

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Inscription by Larry Levis on half title page of Larry Levis' copy of Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, 1981.

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Inscription by Lila Meade Valentine, such and such page, Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry M. Robert, 1907.

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Inscription on flyleaf by Philip Levine in Larry Levis' copy of What Work Is: Poems by Philip Levine, 1991.

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Inscription on half title page of The Invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder, 1911 Inscription reads: "Presented to the Art Club of Richmond, By The Fuchs & Lang Mfg. Co., Suppliers in All Artists Materials, 29 Warren St., New York."

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