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Who/What is Sherry-Lehmann

The catalogs from Sherry-Lehmann are the backbone of our recently created, Price the Vintage, an application built to help crowdsource the extraction of historic prices from wine sales catalog. But what, you might ask, is Sherry-Lehmman? In 1934, legendary Prohibition bootlegger, Jack Aaron took ...

December 3, 2017 • Amy Azzarito

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50 Features of Special Collections: Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center

45 of 50 Michael Harrison (1897-2005), a private book collector of Western Americana, and Margaret B. Harrison (1911-1980), a hand bookbinder, built the Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center. Over the course of 80+ years they amassed more than 21,000 volumes, Native American baskets and pottery ...

June 2, 2017 • Jenny Hodge

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50 Features of Special Collections: Chocolate – it’ll make you feel better

38/50 With Easter coming up tomorrow, what better way to celebrate than by shining a spotlight on chocolate? Our 39th feature is Madrid physician Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma’s treatise on chocolate, Chocolata inda: opusculum de qualitate & naturâ chocolatae. It was first published in Madrid in ...

April 15, 2017 • Christine Cheng

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World War I Document Archive

This site includes the full text of dozens of World War One-related documets. These include treaties, speeches and diaries. There are also extensive collections of texts pertaining to the War at Sea and to World War 1 medicine. ...

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Zhongguo fan you yun dong shu ju ku, 1957- Chinese anti-rightist campaign database, 1957-

Database covers sources on Chinese political movements between 1955-1958. Included are more than 10,000 government documents and files, speeches, bulletins and articles labeled “Rightist” at the time. Searchable in both Chinese and English. NOTE: This CD-ROM database is held offsite. Please request via Interlibrary loan. Call NUMBER: DS778.5 .Z464 ...

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Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 [via Alexander Street Press]

This database includes searchable full text historical documents, a number of document projects based around key questions, teaching tools, plus book, film and website reviews. ...

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Who/What is Sherry-Lehmann

50 Features of Special Collections: Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center

50 Features of Special Collections: Chocolate – it’ll make you feel better

World War I Document Archive

Zhongguo fan you yun dong shu ju ku, 1957- Chinese anti-rightist campaign database, 1957-

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 [via Alexander Street Press]

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