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  Monument honoring the125th New York Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 3nd Division, 2nd Corps

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  Image of the monument to the 125th New York Infantry. Monument is topped by the shamrock of the U.S. Army, 2nd Corps. On the face of the monument is carved: 125th New York Infantry, / 3d Brig. 3d Div. 2d Corps. / Recruited in Rensselaer Co. N. Y. / Mustered in at Troy, N. Y. Aug. 27th 1862. / Engaged in 23 battles. / Mustered out at Albany, N.Y. June 5th 1865. Below this above the base is the seal for the State of New York. In the lower left corner of the image, in small neat handwriting, in white, are the numbers: 1074. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

  photCL 445 (361)

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  Monument honoring the 1st Ohio Cavalry (Companies A and C), Headquarters Guard, 2d and 3d Division

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  Image of the monument of a tall stone monument, obelisk in style, to the 1st Ohio Cavalry, Companies A and C. There is a bas-relief of a horse head at the top with crossed sabers above. Below the horse is written: Companies A and C, 1st Ohio Cavalry, Headquarters Guard, 2d and 3d Division Calvary Corps. On the base: Erected by the State of Ohio. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

  photCL 445 (376)

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  Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler report Comparison of Weights & Measures

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  Printed report. Comparison of Weights and Measures of Length and Capacity, Reported to the Senate of the United States by the Treasury Department in 1832 and made by Ferd. Rod. Hassler (Washington, D.C.), printed by Duff Green, 1832). (122 pages, bound volume)

  mssShapiro

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  Collier's banker's daughter combination

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  Image of five vignettes of dramatic scenes with a central image of two men dueling outdoors in winter captioned "Act 4th. The Duel in the Snow"; two scenes of men and women in a parlor, presumably courting, captioned "Act 1st." and "Act 2d."; a fist fight between men in tuxedos at the bottom of a grand staircase with party guests looking on, captioned "Act 3d. The Insult."; and a woman crying in a parlor while a little girl pulls at her father's arm, captioned "Act 5th. 'Pappa Kiss Mama!'" with three inset images of two older men and a young woman in a mourning veil captioned "The Widow"; with date sheet for a March 18, [1882], show, presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Banker's Daughter" written by Bronson Howard.

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  Orderly book of the bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale

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  The volume contains the orders of Engineer-in-Chief Charles S. Bulkley, and Chief of Marine Charles M. Scammon from May 1865 to December 1866. The orders deal with the following issues: destinations for the ships including San Francisco, California, Victoria, B.C., Sitka, Alaska, the Bering Strait, Siberia and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiǐ, Russia; directions to certain ports; the rules and regulations of the expedition; the promotions, transfers, and punishments of sailors; work to be done by the land parties; ship repairs; the selling and buying of furs; and interactions with the native Alaskans. The volume also mentions the body of Robert Kennicott being brought aboard; Kennicott was the Chief of the Scientific Corps of the expedition and died in Alaska in May 1866.

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  Questiones subtilissime Iohannis Sermonete super lib[rum] afforismo[rum] eiusdem super librum tegni

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  A commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms and Galen's Tegni; some fragments of Hippocrates's text, translated into Latin, are included. Edited by Johannes Antonius Terzagus. The commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms is incomplete: although the signed gatherings agree with the printed register and the text between 2C8v and 2D1r is consistent, the text between 2D6v (which ends with "morbus aut") and 2E1r (which begins the commentary on Galen's Tegni) is not. Super-chancery folio, with paper measuring 31.9 x 21.4 cm. Text printed in 2 columns; 66 lines per column; col. width: 7.8 mm.; area of text: 24.1 x 16.3 cm. With paragraph marks, headlines, and woodcut initials; without catchwords. Publisher's device on verso of leaf 73. Foliation errors: leaves 30 and 49 misnumbered as 32 and 49, respectively. Signatures: 2A-2C⁸ 2D⁶ 2E-2H⁸ 2I-2K⁶ (2K6 blank). Modern binding using a leaf from a medieval Italian[?] antiphonal manuscript as covering.

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