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101Title:  Generations: an American family    
 Creator:  Egerton, John. 
 Publication:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky,c1983. 
 Notes:  Maps on lining papers. 
 Call #:  CT274 L43E3 
 Extent:  263 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ledford family | Family -- United States | United States -- Social life and customs | United States -- Social conditions
 
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102Title:  The good old days: a history of American morals and manners as seen through the Sears, Roebuck catalogs 1905 to the present    
 Creator:  Cohn, David L. (David Lewis), 1896-1960 
 Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
 Publication:  Simon and Schuster, New York,1940. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  E161 C978 
 Extent:  xxxiv, 597 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Sears, Roebuck and Co | Fashion -- History | Costume -- United States -- History | Mail-order business | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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103Title:  The British traveller in America, 1836-1860    
 Creator:  Berger, Max, 1914- 
 Publication:  1943. 
 Notes:  Published also as Studies in history, economics, and public law, ed. by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, no. 502. Vita. "Critical bibliography": p. 189-229. 
 Call #:  E165 B496 
 Extent:  1 p. l., 5-239 p., 1 l. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Travelers, English | National characteristics, American | United States -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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104Title:  Things as they are; or, Notes of a traveller through some of the middle and northern states    
 Creator:  Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866 
 Publication:  Harper & Brothers, New York,1834. 
 Notes:  Binder's title: Notes of a traveller. Second edition issued under author's name, New York, 1847, with title: Summer tours; or Notes of a traveler ... Howes D609. 
 Call #:  E165 T443 
 Extent:  1 p. Á., [v]-viii, [9]-252 p. front., plates. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Description and travel | Atlantic States -- Description and travel | New England -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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105Title:  America's heroes: the changing models of success in American magazines    
 Creator:  Greene, Theodore P., 1921- 
 Publication:  Oxford University Press, New York,1970. 
 Notes:  The periodicals covered were published between 1757 and 1918 inclusive. Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  E169.1 G798 
 Extent:  vi, 387 p. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  American periodicals -- History | Heroes in literature | United States -- Social life and customs | United States -- Intellectual life
 
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106Title:  American folklore and legend    
 Uniform Title:  Reader's digest.    
 Publication:  Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, N.Y,c1978. 
 Notes:  At head of title: Reader's digest. Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  GR105 A512 
 Extent:  448 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. 
 Subjects:  Folklore -- United States | Legends -- United States | Folklore United States | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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107Title:  Life in America: a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's fair, April 24 to October 29 [1939]    
 Creator:  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y) 
 Wehle, Harry Brandeis, 1887-
 Publication:  Scribner press], New York,1939. 
 Notes:  "A visual account of life in America", by H. B. Wehle: p. xv-xxix. "10000 copies...printed." 
 Call #:  ND203 N532 
 Extent:  xxix p., 1 Á., 230 p., 1 Á. illus. (incl. ports.) 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Paintings, American -- Exhibitions | Portraits, American -- Exhibitions | History in art | United States -- History -- Pictorial works | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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108Title:  Bibliotháeque amâericaine: contenant des mâemoires sur l'agriculture, le commerce, les manufactures, les moeurs et les usages de l'Amâerique; l'analyse des ouvrages scientifiques de ce pays, ainsi que de ceux des Europâeens qui y ont voyagâe; et des extraits des journaux publiâes en Amâerique, sur tout ce qui peut intâeresser le commerøcant et l'homme d'âetat; par une sociâete de savans et d'hommes de lettres    
 Creator:  Caritat, Hocquet, b. 1752 
 Publication:  H. Caritat [etc.], Paris,1807. 
 Notes:  Ed. by H. Caritat, by whom many of the pieces were tr. from the English. Periodical issued under caption titles: L'Amerique du Nord ou Le correspondant des âEtats-Unis [no. 1-4] and Bibliotháeque amâericaine [no. 5-9] The present copy consists of a reissue of the first six numbers with title-page as above, followed by "Table des matiáeres de la Bibliotháeque amâericaine" (for [no. 1-6] p. iii-xii) and [no. 7-9], published in 1808 (?) The title is followed by the remark: "Six premiáeres livraisons, dont quatre ont paru sous le titre de L'Amâerique du Nord." The first two numbers are paged continuously without any apparent break; the third number has half-title. Collation: [no. 1-2] 195 p. 6 fold. tab.-[no. 3] 123 p.-[no. 4] 127 p.-[no. 5] 131 p.-[no. 6] p. [133]-244.-[no. 7] 140 p.-[no. 8] p. [141]-256-[no. 9] p. [257]-384. 
 Call #:  E331 B582 
 Extent:  9 pt. in 3 v. fold. tables (vol. I) 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Finance -- United States -- History | United States -- Politics and government | United States -- Economic conditions | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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109Title:  A social history of the American family from colonial times to the present    
 Creator:  Calhoun, Arthur Wallace, 1885- 
 Publication:  The Arthur H. Clark company, Cleveland,1917-19. 
 Notes:  Bibliography: v. 1, p. [337]-348; v. 2, p. [377]-390; v. 3, p. [333]-358, 
 Call #:  HQ535 C152S 
 Extent:  3 v. 25cm. 
 Subjects:  Family | Women in the United States | United States -- Social life and customs | United States -- Social conditions | Cleveland imprints 1917-1919
 
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110Title:  Letter to a lady in France on the supposed failure of a national bank, the supposed delinquency of the national government, the debts of the several states, and repudiation: with answers to enquiries concerning the books of Capt. Marryat and Mr. Dickens    
 Creator:  Cary, Thomas G. (Thomas Greaves), 1791-1859 
 Publication:  B.H. Greene, Boston,1843. 
 Notes:  Cover title: Letter ... in answer to enquiries concerning the late imputations of dishonor upon the United States. Autograph copy. 
 Call #:  E165 C332 
 Extent:  iv, 56 p. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870. -- American notes | Marryat, Frederick, -- 1792-1848. -- Diary in America | Finance -- United States | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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111Title:  Stagecoach and tavern tales of the Old Northwest    
 Creator:  Cole, Harry Ellsworth, 1861-1928 
 Kellogg, Louise Phelps, d. 1942
 Publication:  The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland,1930. 
 Call #:  F33J C689 
 Extent:  4 p. Á., [11]-376 p. incl. plates, ports., maps. front. (double map) 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Coaching -- Northwest, Old | Hotels, taverns, etc. -- Northwest, Old | Frontier and pioneer life -- Northwest, Old | United States -- Social life and customs | Cleveland imprints 1930
 
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112Title:  A year's residence in the United States of America: treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of house-keeping, and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and, of the institutions of the country, civil, political, and religious. In three parts    
 Creator:  Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 
 Publication:  Printed for the author by Clayton and Kingsland, New-York,1819. 
 Notes:  Parts II and III have separate title-pages with imprint: New-York, Clayton and Kingsland, printers, 1819. 
 Call #:  E165 C654Y 1819 
 Extent:  432 p. front. (port.) 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Agriculture -- United States | United States -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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113Title:  A year's residence in the United States of America    
 Creator:  Cobbett, William, 1762-1835 
 Publication:  Printed for the author by Clayton and Kingsland, New-York,1818. 
 Call #:  E165 C654Y 1818N 
 Extent:  3 v. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Agriculture -- United States | United States -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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114Title:  A year's residence, in the United States of America: Treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of house-keeping, and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and of the institutions of the country, civil, political, and religious    
 Creator:  Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 
 Hulme, Thomas.
 Publication:  The author, London,1828. 
 Notes:  First edition. New York, 1818. "Mr. Hulme's journal, made during a tour in the western countries of America, in which tour he visited Mr. Birkbeck's settlement. Mr. Cobbett's letters to Mr. Birkbeck, remonstrating...on the numerous delusions, contained in his..."Notes on a journey in America" and "Letters from Illinois": pt. 3 (p. [257]-364) 
 Call #:  E165 C654Y2 
 Extent:  x, [11]-370 p. front. (fold. map) 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Birkbeck, Morris, 1762-1825. -- Notes on a journey in America | Birkbeck, Morris, 1762-1825. -- Letters from Illinois | Agriculture -- United States | United States -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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115Title:  The saga of American society: a record of social aspiration, 1607-1937    
 Creator:  Wecter, Dixon, 1906-1950 
 Publication:  C. Scribner's Sons, New York,1937. 
 Notes:  "A note on bibliography": p. 485-493. 
 Call #:  E161 W387 
 Extent:  xiii p., 1 Á., 504 p. front., illus., plates, ports. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Portraits, American | Historic buildings -- United States | United States -- Social life and customs | Virginia -- Social life and customs | New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
 
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116Title:  Inchiquin the Jesuit's letters, during a late residence in the United States of America: being a fragment of a private correspondence, accidentally discovered in Europe, containing a favorable view of the manners, literature, and state of society of the United States, and a refutation of many of the aspersions cast upon this country by former residents and tourists    
 Creator:  Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 1782-1862 
 Publication:  I. Riley, New York,1810. 
 Call #:  E164 I47 
 Extent:  v, 165 p. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Civilization | United States -- Social life and customs | United States -- Politics and government | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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117Title:  Not so long ago    
 Creator:  Morris, Lloyd R., 1893-1954 
 Publication:  Random House, New York,[1949] 
 Call #:  E169.1 M87 
 Extent:  xviii, 504 p. illus., ports. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Motion pictures -- History | Automobiles -- History | Radio -- History | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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118Title:  White, red, black: sketches of American Society in the United States during the visit of their guests [Louis Kossuth]    
 Creator:  Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius, 1814-1897 
 Pulszky, Theresa.
 Publication:  Redfield, New York,1853. 
 Call #:  E166 P982 
 Extent:  2 v. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- United States | United States -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs | Ohio -- Description and travel | Southern States -- Description and travel
 
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119Title:  Anglo-American literature and manners    
 Creator:  Chasles, Philaráete, 1798-1873 
 MacLeod, Xavier Donald, 1821-1865
 Publication:  C. Scribner, New York,1852. 
 Notes:  Translation, somewhat abridged, by Donald MacLeod. 
 Call #:  B 4707 
 Extent:  1 p. Á., [v]-xii, 312 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  American literature -- History and criticism | American literature | United States -- Social life and customs | United States -- Politics and government
 
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120Title:  Sketches in North America: with some account of Congress and of the slavery question    
 Creator:  Reid, Hugo, 1809-1872 
 Publication:  Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London,1861. 
 Call #:  E166 R355 
 Extent:  vi p., 1 Á., [9]-320 p. 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- United States | United States -- Social life and customs | United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861 | Nova Scotia -- Description and travel
 
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