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Baron Inigo Born's New Process of Amalgamation of Gold and Silver OresBuild and Access the Collection – $950 A new process for refining gold and silver from various ores is described for the first time in English in this text. The amalgamation process was invented by Baron Ignaz Edler von Born (aka Inigo Born), and after a trial of the process was conducted in front of observers in Schemnitz,...Read More |
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Behind Closed DoorsBuild and Access the Collection – $350 The Kamloops Indian Residential School operated from 1893-1977 as part of Canada’s residential school system, near the traditional homelands of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc people. Similar to U.S. government operated Indian boarding schools, both structures forcefully separated school aged children...Read More |
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Beschreibung Einer Elektrisir-Maschine und Deren GebrauchBuild and Access the Collection – $1,450 Second, enlarged and corrected edition of this very scarce tract on the author's electricity machine handsomely illustrated on the folding plates. This machine was used in physics experiments and occasionally for medicinal purposes. Schmidt (1740-1811) is identified as the "court instrument maker"...Read More |
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Beschreibung Eines EllipsographBuild and Access the Collection – $800 A superb monograph on the theory, construction and use of a mechanical drawing device to describe ellipses. The author, Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767 1852) was a German scientist, the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat (University of Tartu), being elected by the University Council...Read More |
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Bible [in Mohawk]Build and Access the Collection – $4,500 Native American languages have been a central research interest at the Smithsonian since the late 1800s when anthropologist John Wesley Powell founded the Bureau of American Ethnology and (who is he?) James C. Pilling compiled his still-authoritative bibliographies on Native American linguistic...Read More |
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Biological Conservation Newsletter, Numbers 105–116Build and Access the Collection – $300 The Biological Conservation Newsletter was established in 1981 to develop awareness among both scientists and the general public to the environmental changes caused by human activities. The monthly newsletter highlighted conservation research and activities being undertaken by Smithsonian...Read More |
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Birth of the CoolBuild and Access the Collection – $500 Birth of the Cool may be the coolest book you will ever see. In this 2008 exhibition catalog of his first retrospective, Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) distills black identity into powerful three-quarter and full-length portraits that teem with style and attitude. His sitters are unapologetic in...Read More |
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Black American Heritage Through United States Postage StampsBuild and Access the Collection – $250 This thin, 26 page booklet has both color portraits and black and white pencil sketches of prominent heroes of Black History. Written by three Black doctors, it was published in Washington, D.C. Part One is arranged in chronological order based on significant events in American history. For...Read More |
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Black GoldBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Kenneth J. Kutz is the former President of Texasgulf Mining Corporation. He is also the former President of the Collectors Club of New York. The Collectors Club of New York was founded in 1896, making it one of the oldest existing philatelic societies in the United States. This book is about the...Read More |
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Black Radio: Telling It Like It WasBuild and Access the Collection – $550 Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was was a 13-part Smithsonian Productions program that highlighted the history of African American radio through interviews with radio hosts, record executives, and cultural historians. Produced by Jacquie Gales Webb and hosted by Lou Rawls, it won two Gold Medals at...Read More |
