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"Fourth impression; sixteenth thousand." ; The value of Greece to the future of the world, by G. Murray.--Religion, by W. R. Inge.--Philosophy, by J. Burnet.--Mathematics and astronomy, by Sir T. L. Heath.--Natural science, by D'Arcy W. Thompson.--Biology, by C. Singer.--Medicine, by C. Singer.--Literature, by R. W. Livington.--History, by A. Toynbee.--Political thought, by A. E. Zimmern.--The lamps of Greek art, by P. Gardner.--Architecture, by Sir R. Blomfield. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Funérailles du Maréchal Foch, le corps du Maréchal exposé sous l'Arc de Triomphe" ; https://digital.kenyon.edu/arthistorystudycollection/1372/thumbnail.jpg

"Next to the Victory, the most interesting survivor of the days of sail is undoubtedly the famous tea and wool clipper, Cutty Sark. She represents the last word in composite clipper ship designing, being launched at a time when the iron sailing ship was just beginning to supplant the wood and composite. Thus her design is of special interest to all who would follow the gradual development of ship architecture from wood to composite, composite to iron and iron to steel. Includes two fold-out pages: one of the sail plan and one of the lines of the ship."--Amazon.com

"Jeffrey Sinclair has earned his stripes in the international antiques market, has come to a new understanding of faith, and has won the heart of lovely Katya. But then a seemingly straightforward assignment - reclaim the winter palace of a Russian nobleman whose family lost everything during the 1917 Russian Revolution - turns into something much more sinister. Thrust into the turbulence of a nation that's no longer the Soviet Union, Jeffrey is immediately enchanted by the artistry and architecture of St. Petersburg's czarist past. But he soon runs into a dangerous collusion among former Party members, secret KGB agents, and gangs of criminals and black marketers newly arisen in the aftermath of Communism's fall. At what price comes the struggle for power, wealth, and souls in the fragmented new Russia?"-- ; Facsim. ed. ; One of 14 copies from the original in the John Carter Brown library, November, 1942. ; Signatures: [A]², B-G⁸,H⁴. ; "Jeffrey Sinclair has earned his stripes in the international antiques market, has come to a new understanding of faith, and has won the heart of lovely Katya. But then a seemingly straightforward assignment - reclaim the winter palace of a Russian nobleman whose family lost everything during the 1917 Russian Revolution - turns into something much more sinister. Thrust into the turbulence of a nation that's no longer the Soviet Union, Jeffrey is immediately enchanted by the artistry and architecture of St. Petersburg's czarist past. But he soon runs into a dangerous collusion among former Party members, secret KGB agents, and gangs of criminals and black marketers newly arisen in the aftermath of Communism's fall. At what price comes the struggle for power, wealth, and souls in the fragmented new Russia?"-- ; Mode of access: Internet.

Introduction, by C. G. Crump.--The Christian life, by F. M. Powicke.--Art: Medieval architecture, by W. R. Lethaby. Medieval sculpture, by Paul Vitry. Decorative and industrial arts, by Marcel Aubert.--Literature: Some aspects of medieval Latin literature, by Claude Jenkins. Vernacular literature, by Cesare Foligno. Handwriting, by E. A. Lowe.--Philosophy, by C. R. S. Harris.--Education, by J. W. Adamson.--Law: Customary law, by the late Sir Paul Vinogradoff. Canon law, by Gabriel Le Bras. Roman law, by Edouard Meynial.--The position of women, by Eileen Power.--The economic activity of towns, by N. S. B. Gras.--Royal power and administration, by Charles Johnson.--Political thought, by E. F. Jacob. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Each has individual subtitle. ; [Appendixes:] no. A. Tentative report of the correlating committee on standard adn objectives -- no. B. Tentative report of the correlating committee on research -- no. C. Tentative report of the correlating committee on legislation and administration -- no. D. Tentative report of the correlating committee on education and service -- no. E. Tentative report of the correlating committee on organization programs, local and national. ; no. 1. Tentative report of the committee on types of dwellings -- no. 2. Tentative report of the committee on fundamental equipment -- no. 3. Tentative report of the committee on kitchens and other work centers -- no. 4. Tentative report of the committee on utilities for houses -- no. 5. Tentative report of the committee on subdivision layout -- no. 6. Tentative report of the committee on business and housing -- no. 7. Tentative report of the committee on industrial decentralization and housing -- no. 8. Tentative report of the committee on blighted areas and slums -- no. 9. Tentative report of the committee on reconditioning, remodeling and modernizing -- no. 10. Tentative report of the committee on construction -- no. 11. Tentative report of the committee on design -- no. 12. Tentative report of the committee on city planning and zoning -- no. 13. Tentative report of the committee on finance -- no. 14. Tentative report of the committee on taxation -- no. 15. Tentative report of the committee on home ownership and leasing -- no. 16. Tentative report of the committee on home furnishing and decoration -- no. 17. Tentative report of the committee on landscape planning and planting -- no. 18. Tentative report of the committee on household management -- no. 19. Tentative report of the committee on housing and the community -- no. 20. Tentative report of the committee on farm and village housing -- no. 21. Tentative report of the committee on negro housing -- no. 22. Tentative report of the committee on home information services and centers -- no. 23. Tentative report of the committee on homemaking - housing and family life -- no. 24. Tentative report of the committee on large-scale operations -- no. 25.Tentative report of the committee on relationship of income and the home. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Vols. 3-4 edited by Walter A. Donnelly and others. ; Issued in parts which are numbered consecutively, regardless of the vol. designation. ; Some copies have imprint: Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. ; Includes bibliographies. ; v. 8. The Libraries; The Press, The Museums and Collections, The School of Public Health, The Institutes; Television and Broadcasting, The Buildings and Lands. ; v. 1, pt. 1. History and administration. pt. 2. Organization. Services. Alumni.--v. 2, pt. 3. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, I. pt. 4. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, II. Summer session. pt. 5. Medical School. University Hospital. Law School.--v. 3., pt. 6. Graduate School. Schools of Business Administration, Education, Forestry and Conservation. Music. Institute of Fine Arts. Division of Hygiene and Public Health. pt. 7. Colleges of Engineering, Architecture and Design. Pharmacy. School of Dentistry. Department of Military Science and Tactics.--v. 4, pt. 8. Libraries. The press. Museums and collections. The School of Public Health. The institutes. Television and broadcasting. Buildings and lands. pt. 9. Student life and organizations. Athletics. Index.--v. 5. The University of Michigan, 1940-1975.--v. 6. The University of Michigan, 1940-1975. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Maine Forts by Henry E. Dunnack, State Librarian. Foreword by Percival P. Baxter, Govenor of Maine, State Capitol, Augusta - September 1, 1924. Sections include: Introduction, Fort Machias, Fort Knox, Fort St.George's, Fort Edgecomb, Forts Popham and Baldwin, North and South Sugar Loaf Islands, Fort McClary, Indians and Their Wars, Fortifications in Maine , List of Old Forts. ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1013/thumbnail.jpg

Federalism has been described by Dicey as "a political contrivance intended to reconcile national unity and power with the maintenance of 'state right'". Dr. Schmitt, a contemporary German student of federal institutions, has stated that "the nature of union consists in a dualism of the political existence, in a combination of federative common existence and political unity on the one hand with the continuance of plurality, of a pluralism of political individual unities, on the other". Lord Bryce had expressed the same thought in more picturesque language in his earlier study of federal institutions in the United States.The central or national government and the State governments may be compared to a large building and a set of smaller buildings standing on the same ground yet distinct from each other. It is a combination sometimes seen where a great church has been erected over more ancient homes of worship. First the soil is covered by a number of small shrines and chapels, built at different times and in different styles of architecture, each complete in itself. Then over them and including them all in its spacious fabric there is reared a new pile with its own loftier roof, its own walls, which may rest upon and incorporate the walls of the older shrines, its own internal plan. The identity of the earlier buildings has, however, not been obliterated; and if the later and larger structure were to disappear, a little repair would enable them to keep out wind and weather, and be again what they once were, distinct and separate edifices.

Another scene on Southern Pine Lumber Company's logging operation - This tract is adjacent to their present sale on the Walnut Compartment of he Davy Crockett National forest - Big Timber in center background is just across line on Government land. Photographer: Unknown ; https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/nfgt_general/1051/thumbnail.jpg

Building no. 83. Constructed in 1867. Although the hospital was occupied by 1 May 1869, it was not completed until 1871. It took 1,800 mules, 1,300 civilian employees, and over one million bricks to build the Post Hospital for the Army post. The architectural firm of Bell, Klein and Hoffman, in their Preservation Master Plan for the Old Fort Brown Buildings (1981), observed that three additions appeared to have been made to the hospital. These additions included the two-story tower adjoined to the east wing by a one-story infill and the two-story blocks at the rear. However, a 1869 map shows a "T" form representing the hospital which might indicate that only the far rear block was not present. Post Inventory and Post Engineers Records of Buildings in Fort Brown are fairly detailed records of expenditures made to repair or upgrade post buildings that include photographs and floor plans. Every building has a numbered designation. The Post Hospital is Building No. 83 and its walls have a thickness of twelve inches. Sections will, hereupon, be referenced to by letters A through G to denote each section of Gorgas Hall (see floor plan) Section A, the west wing nearest May Street and C, the opposite wing to the east, were the main wards of the building. A 1962 article in The Brownsville Herald stated that Fort Brown assistant surgeon William J. Wilson reported in 1870 that the hospital had accommodations for twenty-four beds. By 1938 three offices and the dispensary occupied the floor. Two rooms near the front entrance were used by orderlies, with a surgery office and dispensary to the rear by 1941. The second floor of section B was divided into separate wards for officers and prisoners with a single 13' x 13' holding cell. Photographs by Robert Runyon during the early 1900s show that Section D, now an office for Administration and Partnership Affairs, was an open-arched passageway during the early 1900s. Quartermasters' records from 1921 to 1941 list this section as being divided into an x-ray and operating room, with the first floor of the connected Section E divided into a sterilization room, x-ray dark room (with a boiler room inserted in between by 1938), and operating room in front. In 1936, the second floor included a pathology lab, but was used exclusively as the dentist's office with two operating rooms, various small rooms, and a waiting room thereafter. The first floor of Section F behind the main central block was a 12' x 31' dining area, with an obstetrical ward on the second floor. At the rear (Section G) were the kitchen and store rooms on the first floor, with a day room and toilet on the second floor. Sections D, E, and G probably existed by 1871. In 1976, Ruby A. Wooldridge, best remembered for teaching at Texas Southmost College and her book, Brownsville: A Pictorial History with Robert B. Vezzetti in 1982, stated in an unpublished history of Texas Southmost College that Brownsville Junior College (later TSC) made major renovations in September 1948, and the post hospital building was converted to house: The science laboratories, art department, college library, permanent offices of the Dean and registry, science lecture rooms, office of the superintendent of the grounds, journalism department and the faculty lounge. The room on the second floor of the former hospital, which had been used by the army for confining violent patients, was used jointly by the Junior College and the Brownsville Historical Society for the storage of rare books and documents. A 1949 Sanborn Map indicates sections A and G were used as classrooms, B as offices, C as a library, and E as study rooms. A 1971 TSC Bulletin states the "Gorgas Science Center" was remodeled to include three biology laboratories [in sections C and E] with imminent plans for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering labs. By 1972, Gorgas was mainly an administrative building with the completion of Eidman Hall as a science building By 1981, Gorgas housed the Offices of the President and Vice-President, Registrar's, Veteran's Affairs, Business and the Counseling Center. The task of keeping Gorgas (and other historical buildings) in pristine condition has been tested by time and trial. Although remodeling the interiors suited academic needs, undoing the mistakes of well-intended caretakers and the elements of nature began a program of continual restoration efforts of upkeep of the buildings. By 1991, the retransformation of old buildings was complete, thanks to a 1986 $13.5 million bond issue approved by voters to boost the college's growth and rescue historical buildings from further debilitation. TSC was presented with a plaque by the Brownsville Historical Association for its efforts to preserve historic fort buildings and for making the Post Hospital a National Historic Landmark in Texas Nearly every building on campus is enhanced by arches of one form or another. Architectural features that stem from Gorgas Hall give UTB/TSC an unprecedented uniqueness among other colleges. In 1993, the Architecture and Design Review of Houston magazine included a booklet, "On the Border: An Architectural Tour," featuring Brownsville buildings in which the design of the Gorgas building was noted for its "brick arches, brick pilasters and brick corbeling at the roof line -- [as being] redolent of the Creole architectural tradition of Northeastern Mexico." This section of the Post Hospital will be finalized by retelling a story from the Brownsville Herald about Dr. William Crawford Gorgas, beginning with his thirty-year battle at the age of twenty-seven against Yellow Fever, Yellow Jack, or vomito negro as it was known in Mexico. He arrived at Fort Brown in 1882, amidst the epidemic which overtook its victims with body aches, fever, and nausea that induced black vomit. Freshly dug graves stood open and ready to swallow another victim and their belongings. The dreaded disease was known to have "wiped out entire armies and thousands of civilians in tropical climates in the western hemisphere." One case involved the invading American Army of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1846 and another, when the Spanish Army was rendered impotent by Yellow Fever in its attempts to suppress Cuban insurrectionists in the 1890s. A "study" suggested that Spanish Conquistadors brought it over with African Negroes. In Brownsville, some blamed carriers to have been railroad workers from Tampico or seamen from New Orleans. Lieutenant Gorgas was instructed by his colleagues to carry whiskey, brandy, mustard seed and cigars to help ward off the disease as no cure was known. Also unknown was that the mosquito was to blame for carrying the virus. It was thought the disease was transmitted through personal contact, filth from streets or marshes, or the putrid odor in the atmosphere that rose from this filth. Gorgas began dissecting bodies in the "dead house," as the Old Morgue was then called, to study the cause of Yellow Fever. He had been ordered to stay away from patients and was briefly arrested for disobeying those orders. Because it was not known how the fever spread, a Yellow Fever doctor was also relegated to being undertaker, grave digger and clergyman. One night, following his experience at Fort Brown, Dr. Gorgas described to colleagues at Fort Barranca, Florida, the horrible details of what is was like to dig a grave, wrap a corpse in a white shroud, add quick lime to an empty coffin before placing the corpse within it, the internment "and the reading of the burial service by the light of a lantern." One cannot imagine what went through his mind when one day as he looked into an open grave of the National Cemetery on the island and was asked by another doctor to read a burial service for Miss Marie Cook Doughty, whose drawn-out, fifteen-day illness made it seem as her time would come very quickly. He agreed, too, but continued to treat her. To Miss Doughty, he was the "Gorgeous Doctor" and when he would come visit her in the cool dark of night, she could hardly see his face, but was lulled by the "musical tones of his voice and his soft southern accent." His treatment of her and subsequent illness beside her resulted in a lifelong partnership in which she accompanied him in his pursuit to stamp out Yellow Jack for good. Both became immune following their recovery and when it was theorized that the stegomyia mosquito was the enemy, Dr. Gorgas began warfare to eradicate the mosquito. Some of his quarantine methods included the elimination of stagnant water, the insects' breeding grounds, and fumigation techniques. Oil was also poured into marshes. His campaign against the epidemic took him to Panama where the construction of the canal had been interrupted by the disease. By 1914, he was appointed Surgeon General of the Army. While in London in 1920 to meet King George V, Dr. Gorgas had a cerebral hemorrhage. The king visited him in the hospital and at length expressed his sincere appreciation for the work he did for humanity. Gorgas died on July 4, 1920 and is credited with proving the mosquito carried the disease and finding ways to eliminate it. His efforts virtually eliminated yellow fever. A memorial plaque was placed on the Fort Brown hospital building presented in a ceremony by the Brownsville Historical Association (BHA) and Brownsville Junior College to commemorate Gorgas in February 1949. Later that same year the BHA, in conjunction with other organizations, were able to have Gorgas elected to the Hall of Fame. Gorgas Drive and the TSC's Gorgas Science Foundation also bear the name of the doctor. Its arches, pilasters, denticulated cornices, and other decorative brickwork are the result of innovative building practices imported from Spain to Mexico that made their way into architecture along the Rio Grande River. The drawing below exemplifies the architectural elements that make this building much more remarkable then what it might have been if it had not been altered from standard Army building plans by William A. Wainwright and Samuel W. Brooks. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/ftbrown/1339/thumbnail.jpg