Collection Items
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Film, VideoWorking Catholic Youth's Second National Congress and Convention of 100 Marriages, Montreal, 1939. The Jeunesse ouvrière catholique (Working Catholic Youth) in Quebec produced this silent film in 1939, which depicts the Congrès des cent mariages (Convention of 100 Marriages) on the occasion of its Second National Congress. The film is in the Fonds d'archives de la Jeunesse ouvrière catholique (Working Catholic Youth Archive) at the Quebec National Library and Archives. The Canadian group was modeled after the...- Contributor: Young Christian Workers
- Date: 1939
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Book/Printed MaterialPodkandal'nyĭ marsh.
Подкандальный марш. The Printed Music and Sound Recordings Collection of the Russian State Library comprises some 400,000 items relating to Russian music. This sheet music item is an example of popular songs sung by Siberian native peoples and Russian settlers in the late tsarist and early Soviet periods. World Digital Library.- Date: 1908
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Photo, Print, DrawingP. R. Schuyler, Furnishing Undertaker, Philadelphia. Northeast Corner of Beaver & 4th Streets, Philadelphia. Lots for Sale in Monument Cemetery on Reasonable Terms. Also Single Interments.
P.R. Schuyler, furnishing undertaker, N.E. cor. Beaver & 4th Sts., Philadelphia. N. B. lots for sale in Monument Cemetery on reasonable terms. Also single interments William H. Rease, born in Pennsylvania circa 1818, was the most prolific lithographer of advertising prints in Philadelphia during the 1840s and 1850s. This advertisement shows a funeral procession led by an empty hearse passing by the residential business front of undertaker P.R. Schuyler on the northeast corner of Beaver and Fourth Streets. A sign with the name of the proprietor and illustrated with...- Contributor: Rease, William H.
- Date: 1847
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Union of Worker and Peasant. This propaganda poster from the Russian Civil War of 1919--21 is by Vladimir Lebedev, a prolific Russian painter, book illustrator, and poster and set designer. Lebedev's compositions are distinguished by simple blocks of color and figures broken down into geometric shapes. The image here promotes the brotherhood of peasants and workers and may have addressed a topical issue at a time when workers lost...- Contributor: Rosta - Lebedev, Vladimir Vasilʹevich
- Date: 1921
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of Alaska, Yukon Territory and British Columbia showing connections of the White Pass and Yukon route. "Published in 1904, this map shows the routes and interconnecting service of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad between Skagway, Whitehorse, and Dawson City. It includes both train and boat routes, as well as geographical information on the adjacent areas of Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia. The reverse side of the map contains a timetable as well as vignettes about points of interest throughout...- Contributor: Marsh & Grant Co.
- Date: 1904
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Book/Printed MaterialChristians at Mecca. Christians at Mecca is a collection of narratives summarizing the journeys undertaken by 16 European travelers to the Muslim holy city, starting with Ludovico di Varthema, who visited in 1503, and ending with Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, who visited in 1894. The list also includes Vincent Le Blanc (1568), Johann Wild (1607), Joseph Pitts (1680), Domingo Badia y Leblich (also called Ali Bey, 1807), Ulrich Jasper...- Contributor: Ralli, Augustus
- Date: 1909
- Resource: - 328 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingScene Showing the Young Mens Christian Association (Y.M.C.A) and Alaska Realty Company in Seward, Alaska. May 22, 1915.
Seward, Alaska This image is from an album of 298 black-and-white photographs taken by August Cohn during his work with the Alaska Engineering Commission in 1915-17. Cohn was a civil engineer and surveyor who worked on the survey of the original site on which the town (and later city) of Anchorage was built. He also was involved in surveying and engineering work for many of the...- Contributor: Alaska Engineering Commission - Cohn, August
- Date: 1915
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingHungry People Greet an American Relief Worker in Dachowa, Poland. This photograph, taken by an American aid worker on an inspection tour of Poland in 1921, shows adults and children in Dachowa awaiting relief. In 1918-19, Jews in Poland lived through a reign of terror. While the country was at war with its neighbors to the east and the south, there were anti-Jewish pogroms and other attacks. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),...- Contributor: Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers - Colton, Max J.
- Date: 1921
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Photo, Print, DrawingEagle Hotel. Number 139 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia.
Eagle Hotel, No. 139 North 3rd. Street Philadelphia. This lithograph from circa 1855 is an advertisement showing the multi-storied hotel at 139 (i.e., 227--229) North Third Street in Philadelphia. The hotel is identified as the Eagle Hotel, and the proprietors as Allmond & Stem. An awning over the second floor balcony prominently displays these names. On the second floor balcony, guests sit, stand, and converse. On the street below, a woman approaches...- Contributor: Sinclair, Thomas S.
- Date: 1855
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingPozharnai︠a︡ mashina.
Пожарная машина. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Date: 1924
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialSummary of Petition of Railroad Workers of Hungarian Origin and Protection of Minorities in Czechoslovakia. After World War I, the states of central and southeastern Europe were compelled by the victorious Allied and Associated Powers to sign agreements guaranteeing religious, social, and political equality to their minority populations. The states covered were Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Groups or individuals who believed they had been discriminated against for ethnic or linguistic reasons could petition the...- Contributor: League of Nations. Committee of Three - League of Nations. Secretariat. Minority Section
- Date: 1932
- Resource: - 3 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialPetition of Railroad Workers of Hungarian Origin, Draft Reply, Legal Arguments. After World War I, the states of central and southeastern Europe were compelled by the victorious Allied and Associated Powers to sign agreements guaranteeing religious, social, and political equality to their minority populations. The states covered were Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Groups or individuals who believed they had been discriminated against for ethnic or linguistic reasons could petition the...- Contributor: League of Nations. Committee of Three
- Date: 1932
- Resource: - 2 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingA Mill Worker Watches Over the Loading of Powder Fine Phosphate. Major phosphate deposits were first discovered in Florida in Alachua County in the early 1880s. By the turn of the century, phosphate mining was a major industry as phosphate seams were identified in central and southwestern Florida, and mining became an essential economic engine for cities such as Dunnellon, Newberry, and Mulberry. From hand mining with wheelbarrows and picks, to large-scale mechanized mining employing...- Date: 1947
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Photo, Print, DrawingWood and Perot's Ornamental Iron Works.
Wood & Perot's ornamental iron works These two prints from 1858 are advertisements for Wood and Perot's ornamental iron works in Philadelphia. Two views are shown, one of the "Ridge Avenue" factory, and one of the neighboring "Twelfth Street" foundry of the iron works. The Ridge Avenue view shows the massive "Wood and Perot Ornamental Iron Railing Factory Iron Works," located at 1136 Ridge Avenue. Signs adorn the building, advertising...- Contributor: Ketterlinus, Eugene, 1886
- Date: 1858
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingTwo Government Workers, in Official Summer Straw Hats, Sitting with an Old Man. China, 1874-75. In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission...- Contributor: Boiarskii, Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich
- Date: 1874
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialA Jerusalem Christian Treatise on Astrology.
A Jerusalem Christian treatise on astrology A Jerusalem Christian Treatise on Astrology is an English translation of the first part of an Arabic manuscript on astrology, the original title and author of which are unknown. The translation is by Gladys Dickson, a British orientalist and explorer of Ottoman Palestine. Dickson obtained access to the manuscript from its unnamed owner, "a certain Arab living in Jerusalem." She translated the original Arabic...- Contributor: Palestine Exploration Fund - Dickson, Gladys
- Date: 1909
- Resource: - 22 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingChestnut Street Schottisch. This print is a cover for the sheet music of "Chestnut Street Schottisch," published around 1858 by the firm of J. Marsh. The print features a street scene in front of a three-story building located at 1009--1011 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. The building has signage for "Wm. D. Rogers' Carriage Repository" and the "Young Mens Christian Association Rooms." Outside the ground floor, customers are...- Contributor: Haehnlen, Jacob, 1824 - Roddon, James W.
- Date: 1858
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingIrkutskai︠a︡ polit︠s︡eĭskai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ komanda. Oboz pervoĭ chasti.
Иркутская полицейская пожарная команда. Обоз первой части. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Prorokov, R.
- Date: 1894
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Photo, Print, DrawingIrkutskai︠a︡ polit︠s︡eĭskai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ komanda. Oboz vtoroĭ chasti.
Иркутская полицейская пожарная команда. Обоз второй части. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Prorokov, R.
- Date: 1894
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Photo, Print, DrawingIrkutskai︠a︡ polit︠s︡eĭskai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ komanda. Oboz tret'eĭ chasti.
Иркутская полицейская пожарная команда. Обоз третьей части. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Prorokov, R.
- Date: 1894
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Photo, Print, DrawingOboz Irkutskogo dobrovol'nogo pozharnogo obshchestva.
Обоз Иркутского добровольного пожарного общества. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Prorokov, R.
- Date: 1894
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Photo, Print, DrawingSmotr obozov pozharnykh komand i dobrovol'noĭ pozharnoĭ druzhiny na Tikhvinskoĭ ploshchadi.
Смотр обозов пожарных команд и добровольной пожарной дружины на Тихвинской площади. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Date: 1892
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Photo, Print, DrawingIrkutskai︠a︡ polit︠s︡eĭskai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ komanda. Znamenskiĭ vremennyĭ otri︠a︡d.
Иркутская полицейская пожарная команда. Знаменский временный отряд. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Contributor: Prorokov, R.
- Date: 1894
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Photo, Print, DrawingKonnyĭ vyezd pozharnoĭ lestnit︠s︡y.
Конный выезд пожарной лестницы. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service. World Digital Library.- Date: 1900
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