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| | • | United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries |
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| | • | United States -- Registers |
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| | • | Imprints, Early American To 1820 |
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| | • | United States -- History -- 1783-1865 |
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| | • | Washington, George, -- 1732-1799 |
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| | • | Cabinet officers -- United States |
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| | • | Cleveland imprints 1888-1889 |
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| | • | France -- Relations (general) with the United States |
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| | • | Hall of Fame (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Historic buildings -- Washington (D.C.) |
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| | • | Historic homes -- United States |
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| | • | Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 |
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| | • | New York University. -- Hall of Fame |
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| | • | North America -- Biography |
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| | • | Ohio imprints 1859 |
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| | • | Ohio imprints 1871 |
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| | • | Orators, American |
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| | • | Pennsylvania -- Genealogy |
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| | • | Presidents -- United States -- Election |
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| | • | Republican Party -- History |
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| | • | Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, -- comte de, -- 1725-1807 |
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| | • | Statesmen -- United States -- Biography |
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| | • | Success |
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| | • | United States -- Biography -- Portraits |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, French |
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| | • | United States -- Relations (general) with France |
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| | • | United States. -- Congress -- (43rd : -- 1873-1875) |
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| | • | United States. -- Continental Congress. -- Biography |
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| | • | United States. -- Supreme Court -- Biography |
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| | • | Abolitionists |
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| | • | African Americans -- Biography |
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| | • | African Americans -- Encyclopedias |
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| | • | Agriculture -- Biography |
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| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 122 | Title: | Dictionary of American biography including men of the time: containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons ... who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history, of the American continent
| | | | Creator: | Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 | | | | Publication: | Houghton, Osgood & company, Boston,1879. | | | | Call #: | E176 D761D1 | | | | Extent: | x, 1019 p. | | | | Subjects: | Biography | America -- Biography -- Dictionaries | United States -- Biography
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 123 | Title: | The American immortals: the record of men who by their achievement in statecraft, war, science, literature, art, law and commerce have created the American republic, and whose names are inscribed in the Hall of fame
| | | | Creator: | Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911 | | | | Publication: | G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York,c1901. | | | | Notes: | Includes index. Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letter press. | | | | Call #: | E176 E29 A Oversize | | | | Extent: | xviii, 432 p. : ports. ; 30 cm. | | | | Subjects: | New York University. -- Hall of Fame | United States -- Biography
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 126 | Title: | The abridged compendium of American genealogy: first families of America : a genealogical encyclopedia of the United States
| | | | Creator: | Virkus, Frederick Adams | | | | | Marquis, Albert Nelson, d. 1943 | | | | Publication: | A.N. Marquis, Chicago,1925-42. | | | | Notes: | Vols. 4-7 have title: The compendium of American genealogy. Vols. 2-7 have title: The standard genealogical encyclopedia of the first families of America. Vols. 2-3 published by F.A. Virkus; v. 4 by the Virkus Co.; v. 5-7 by the Institute of American Genealogy. Vol. 1 edited by F.A. Virkus under the direction of A.N. Marquis; v. 2-7 by F.A. Virkus. "Patriotic and hereditary societies": v. 1, p. 999-1007. | | | | Call #: | CS69 V818 | | | | Extent: | 7 v. : ill., ports., coats of arms. ; 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Patriotic societies | United States -- Genealogy | United States -- Biography
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 127 | Title: | American orators and oratory: Comprising biographical sketches of the representative men of America, together with gems of eloquence upon leading questions that have occupied public attention, from the foundation of the republic to the present time
| | | | Creator: | Whitman, C. M. | | | | Publication: | Fairbanks, Palmer & co, Bryan, Taylor & co.; [etc., etc.], Chicago, New York,1884. | | | | Call #: | E176 W614 | | | | Extent: | xxii, 25-1120 p. incl. ports. 2 port. (incl. front.) 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Orators, American | United States -- Biography | Cleveland imprints 1884
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 130 | Title: | Presiding ladies of the White House: containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs
| | | | Creator: | Woolfall, Lila Graham Alliger, 1864- | | | | Publication: | Bureau of National Literature and Art, Washington,1903. | | | | Notes: | Printed on one side of leaf only. Published 1898 under title: A pocket history of the ladies of the White House ... by Olga Stanley [pseud.] | | | | Call #: | E176.1 W913 | | | | Extent: | 137 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | White House (Washington, D.C.) | Women -- Biography | United States -- Biography
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 131 | Title: | The Columbian Plutarch: or, An exemplification of several distinguished American characters
| | | | Creator: | Woodward, Thomas. | | | | | Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853 | | | | Publication: | Printed for the author, by Clark & Raser, Philadelphia,1819. | | | | Notes: | "For the biographical memoirs contained in this collection, the author is principally indebted to Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia, Allen's Biographical dictionary, and Delaplaine's Repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished American characters." - Introd. Of the nine lives from Delaplaine's Repository, at least six were written by Charles Caldwell. Cf. his Autobiography, Philadelphia, 1855, p. 274, 431-432. Includes lives of the naturalist John Bartram and the physicians David Ramsay and Benjamin Rush, the latter adapted from Caldwell. | | | | Call #: | E176 W912 | | | | Extent: | vi, [2], 311 p. ; 18 cm. | | | | Subjects: | United States -- Biography | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 134 | Title: | The national portrait gallery of distinguished Americans: with biographical sketches, in four volumes
| | | | Creator: | Herring, James, 1794-1867 | | | | | Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869 | | | | Publication: | Robert E. Peterson & Co, Philadelphia,1852-1853. | | | | Notes: | By James Herring and James B. Longacre. cf. pref. Each v. has added engr. t.p. dated 1852. Each biography individually paged, after each plate. | | | | Call #: | E176 H567 1852/3 | | | | Extent: | 4 v. : ports. ; 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | United States -- Biography | United States -- Biography -- Portraits
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 137 | Title: | Homes of American statesmen: with anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches
| | | | Creator: | Upham, Alfred W. | | | | Publication: | A.W. Upham, New York,1859. | | | | Notes: | Added t.-p., engr., with imprint: Hartford, O.D. Case & co. | | | | Call #: | E176 H767 | | | | Extent: | l p. Á., viii, p., 1 Á., [3]-484 p. front., illus., plates, facsims. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Statesmen -- United States | Historic homes -- United States | United States -- Biography
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 138 | Title: | Homes of American statesmen: with anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches
| | | | Creator: | Upham, Alfred W. | | | | Publication: | A. W. Upham, New York,1860. | | | | Notes: | Added t.-p., engraved, with imprint: Hartford, O. D. Case & co. | | | | Call #: | E176 H767c | | | | Extent: | 1 p. leaf, viii p., 1 leaf, [3]-484 p. front., plates, facsims. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Statesmen -- United States | Historic homes -- United States | United States -- Biography
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 140 | Title: | Adventures and achievements of Americans: a series of narratives illustrating their heroism, self-reliance, genius and enterprise
| | | | Creator: | Howe, Henry, 1816-1893 | | | | Publication: | Geo. F. Tuttle, Henry Howe, New York, Cincinnati,1859. | | | | Call #: | E176 H856A | | | | Extent: | xi, 15-720 p., [11] leaves of plates (some fold., some col.) : ill., map ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | United States -- Biography | United States -- History | Ohio imprints 1859
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