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    President John F. Kennedy Greets Peace Corps Volunteers, White House, South Lawn.
    President [John F. Kennedy] Greets Peace Corps Volunteers, White House, South Lawn     This photograph shows President John F. Kennedy greeting Peace Corps volunteers on the South Lawn of the White House on August 9, 1962. Kennedy first proposed what became the Peace Corps in a speech at the University of Michigan on October 14, 1960, in which he challenged students to give two years of their lives to helping people in countries of the developing world....
    • Contributor: Rowe, Abbie
    • Date: 1962
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Photograph of Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House. This photograph shows Elvis Presley meeting with President Richard M. Nixon at the White House on December 21, 1970. That morning, Presley personally delivered a hand-written note to the security guard at the northwest gate of the White House, saying that he wanted to meet Nixon to present him with the gift of a World War II-era pistol and ask for credentials as an...
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    Varina Howell Davis.
    Mrs. Jefferson Davis     Varina Howell Davis (1826-1906) was the second wife of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and thus the only first lady of the Confederacy. Born in rural Louisiana to a family with roots in both the North and the South, she was educated at a boarding school in Philadelphia. She married Davis, a widower, in 1845. She is known to have...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-82) was the wife of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady of the United States during the Civil War. Born into a large and influential family in Kentucky, she moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1837, where she met Lincoln. As first lady, Mary Lincoln renovated the White House, established a salon where political and literary figures could meet, nursed wounded soldiers...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1862
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Postmaster General Montgomery Blair. Montgomery Blair (1813-83) was postmaster general in the cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln. Born and educated in Kentucky, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1836 but soon left the army to study law. He moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, where he practiced law with his brother and where his father was an influential newspaper editor. In 1842-43 he served...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Governor William Sprague IV of Rhode Island.
    Govr. Sprague     William Sprague IV (1830--1915) was a wealthy textile manufacturer and politician who served as governor of Rhode Island from 1860 to 1863 and as a U.S. senator from 1863 to 1875. Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, he attended Irving Institute in Tarrytown, New York, but was forced, after the murder of his father, to leave school early to tend to the family business. As...
    • Contributor: Anthony, Edward - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1861
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    George Bush, Captain of the Yale Baseball Team, Receives Babe Ruth's Manuscript of His Autobiography Which He Was Donating to Yale. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was the most celebrated American athlete of the 1920s, a period that has been called the Golden Age of Sports for its extraordinary hero-athletes in baseball, football, golf, boxing, horse-racing, and other sports. Ruth was born to German-American parents in Baltimore in 1895. He began his major-league career in 1914 as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, winning 89...
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    Panama and the canal in picture and prose ... Published in 1913, Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose is a comprehensive overview of Panama and the Panama Canal in the year before it was opened to commerce. Organized in 20 chapters, the book begins with an introductory chapter about Jamaica, "the front door to Panama." Chapters two through six give an overview of the history and geography of Panama. Chapter 15...
    • Contributor: Abbot, Willis John
    • Date: 1913

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    Personal narrative of a year's journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862-63) William Gifford Palgrave (1826-88) was a famous English traveler to Arabia who inspired a generation of European explorers and missionaries. He became fluent in Arabic while serving as a Jesuit missionary in Syria. In 1862 he undertook a year-long journey through the Arabian Peninsula with the stated aim of studying the "moral, political, and intellectual conditions of living Arabia." He was also working as...
    • Contributor: Palgrave, William Gifford
    • Date: 1871

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    Through the Brazilian wilderness After failing to win a third term in the elections of 1912, former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt planned a speaking trip to Argentina and Brazil and a cruise up the Amazon. The government of Brazil suggested that Roosevelt join the famous Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon in an expedition down the recently discovered River of Doubt. Roosevelt accepted the invitation and, accompanied by his son...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1914

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    Safar-Hadgi; or, Russ and Turcoman.
    • Contributor: Lubomirski, Józef
    • Date: 1878
    • Resource: - 3 pages

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    Ashmead-Bartlett's despatches from the Dardanelles. Portrait on cover.
    • Contributor: Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis
    • Date: 1915
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    Arabic authors.
    • Contributor: Arbuthnot, F. F.
    • Date: 1890
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    Through the heart of Asia: over the Pamïr to India.
    • Contributor: Bonvalot, Gabriel - Pitman, C.
    • Date: 1889
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    To the Gold Coast for gold; a personal narrative,
    • Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Cameron, Verney Lovett
    • Date: 1883
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    The native races of the Russian empire.
    • Contributor: Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
    • Date: 1854
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    Goa and the Blue Mountains; or, Six months of sick leave.
    • Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Burton, Richard F[Rancis]
    • Date: 1851
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    Trailing the Bolsheviki : twelve thousand miles with the allies in Siberia,
    • Contributor: Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William)
    • Date: 1919
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    The tree of heaven,
    • Contributor: Sinclair, May
    • Date: 1917
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    Bengal hurkaru.
    • Date: 1798
  • Book/Printed Material
    The red, white and blue manuals ... a text book for the Citizens' Military Training Camp,
    • Contributor: McMurray, T. L. (Thomas Leroy) - United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps - Garey, E. (Enoch Barton) - Ellis, O. O. (Olin Oglesby) - Bond, P. S. (Paul Stanley)
    • Date: 1921
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    Arabia, Egypt, India: a narrative of travel, At head of title: A E I.
    • Contributor: Burton, Isabel
    • Date: 1879
    • Resource: - 1 page

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    A mission to Gelele, king of Dahome. With notices of the so called "Amazons," the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the slave trade, and the ...
    • Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
    • Date: 1864
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    Ultima Thule; or, A summer in Iceland. "Catalogue-raisonné of modern travel in Iceland":v. 1, p. 235-260. Appendices: On sulphur in Iceland, by O. Henchel, Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Mr. C. Crowe ... Leasing contract. Sulphur in Sicily. Sulphur in Transylvania. Sulphur in Andaman Islands. Seen through the press by Högni Gunlögsen. cf. Pref.
    • Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Burton, Richard F[Rancis]
    • Date: 1875
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    Modern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.
    • Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
    • Date: 1811