The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 712
Release 1977
Genre Catalogs, Union
ISBN

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The Mining Record

The Mining Record
Title The Mining Record PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 272
Release 1878
Genre Mineral industries
ISBN

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The Silver Canvas

The Silver Canvas
Title The Silver Canvas PDF eBook
Author Bates Lowry
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 258
Release 2000-02-03
Genre Art
ISBN 0892365366

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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

Engineering and Mining Journal

Engineering and Mining Journal
Title Engineering and Mining Journal PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 794
Release 1878
Genre Engineering
ISBN

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Engineering and Mining Journal

Engineering and Mining Journal
Title Engineering and Mining Journal PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1000
Release 1878
Genre Engineering
ISBN

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Ambrose Bierce is Missing

Ambrose Bierce is Missing
Title Ambrose Bierce is Missing PDF eBook
Author Joe Nickell
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 191
Release 2014-07-15
Genre True Crime
ISBN 0813164141

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What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another—or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he demonstrates the use of varied techniques in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. All the major categories of historical mystery are here—ancient riddles, biographical enigmas, hidden identity, "fakelore," questioned artifacts, suspect documents, lost texts, obscured sources, and scientific challenges. Each is then illustrated by a complete case from the author's own files. Nickell's investigation of the giant Nazca drawings in Peru, for example—thought by some to provide proof of ancient extraterrestrial visitations—uses innovative techniques to reveal a very different origin. Other cases concern the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the truth about the identity of John Demjanjuk ("Ivan the Terrible" to Polish death camp victims), the fate of a lost colonial American text, the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In reaching his solutions, Nickell demonstrates a wide variety of investigative techniques—chemical and instrumental analyses, physical experimentation, a "psychological autopsy," forensic identification, archival research, linguistic analysis, folklore study, and many others. His highly readable book will intrigue the scholar and the history buff no less than the mystery lover.

History of Cherokee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens

History of Cherokee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens
Title History of Cherokee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Thompson Allison
Publisher
Pages 642
Release 1904
Genre Cherokee County (Kan.)
ISBN

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