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Catalogs to Sleep By

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Various

Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass

Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin

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Frank Tilton

The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…

Intro

In Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico

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Julian Corbett and John M. Corbett

This U.S. National Park Service historical handbook from 1962 introduces the reader to the history, geography, and archaeology of the Aztec …

Bedside Books

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

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William Davenport Adams

"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

The Duke’s Mystery

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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Andrew Forrester

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …

Library Statistics

In Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries

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Arthur Elmore Bostwick

This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…

Radiation Preservation of Seafood & Project Plowshare

In The Atom and the Ocean

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E. W. Seabrook Hull

This is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an o…

Woman: The Serf

In Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes

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Edward Carpenter

"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among …