2024.035.001

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Author: Rick Wetmore

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2nd Floor Stacks - Library
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Title
The New England Quarterly
Subtitle
A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters
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2024.035

A periodical publication, Volume XCVII, Number 1, March 2024

The edition includes four essays"

  • Fortune in Exile: William Rotch, 1775-1805, by Sarah Crabtree
  • "No Avenging Gibbet": The 1860 Pemberton Mill Collapse, by Robert Forrant
  • Making a Post-Industrial New England, by Lizabeth Cohen
  • Silicon Politics, from Puritan Soil to California Dreaming, by Margaret O'Mara

The book is autographed by Robert Forrant as follows:
"To the Lawrence History Center, thanks for keeping the history safe!   Bob Forrant"

Collection
Lawrence History Center Library
Publisher
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date (created)
2024-03
Event
Pemberton Mill Collapse
Language
English
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This book is owned by the Lawrence History Center, but copyright may be held by another business or organization. Please contact the Center for more information.

2024.051.001

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Author: Rick Wetmore

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2nd Floor Stacks - Library
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Soldiers' French Course
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2024.051

A French language handbook for use by US Army soldiers in World War 1. The book includes:

A thirty lesson foundation French course.

Everyday French conversation with pronunciation.

French moneys, measures and weights with their United States equivalents.

Military commands and phrases with their French translation and pronunciation.

Red Cross and Hospital phrases.

Trench slang.

Collection
Lawrence History Center Library
Author
Justice B. Detwiler
Publisher
Gordon-Detwiler Institute of New York Inc.
Date (created)
1917
Date (coverage)
1917-1919
Event
World War 1
Language
English, French
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This book is owned by the Lawrence History Center, but copyright may be held by another business or organization. Please contact the Center for more information.

2022.081

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Author: Amita Kiley
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Bob Fournier
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Kiley, Amita

Book - "The Lost American Industrialist - The Story of William Madison Wood" by Bob Fournier, 2022

2024.055

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Author: Amita Kiley
Donor
Grazia Messina
Donor Organization
Museo Etneo delle Migrazioni" (Etna Museum o
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via UPS to Amita Kiley's home
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  • Journal "Studi Storici Siciliani", features an article about Sicilians who immigrated to Lawrence

2024.053

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Author: Amita Kiley
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Jonas Stundzia
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picked up at donor's home by Amita Kiley
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Photos, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and other print material related to Lawrence schools,  churches, and events

2024.054

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Kelley Hutton
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  • Assorted color postcards of Lawrence views
In Memory of
Francis and Eileen Mele

2024.052

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Author: Amita Kiley
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2024.052
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Dorene Lengyel
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Book - The Golden Manual or The Royal Road to Success, published in 1892

In Memory of
James Lees

2024.051

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Author: Amita Kiley
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Kathleen S. Flynn
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  • Books – Soldiers’ French Course by Justice B. Detwiler, c. 1917, printed by Foreign Trade Press

  • The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds

    Photographs

2024.050

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Julie Todd
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  • Small green briefcase / writing desk with the initials “J.S.T.” embossed in gold on the top, belonging to John Shaw Todd, Lawrence Alderman in the early 1900s, and temporary Mayor when Mayor Scanlon went out of town.  He was also actress Thelma Todd’s father.  Fair condition.

In Memory of
William Asa Todd and Edna Todd Barry

2024.048

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Author: Amita Kiley
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Micah E. Cruz
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  • Painting – acrylic on canvas, made during the 2024 Rising Loaves Summer Writing Program at LHC

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