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1. 109 Fun Things to Do in the Summer - Garfield, Marchand

   This item is local tourist brochure published in 1970. It covers Chester, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. The Carter Homestead and the PastPerfect Museum are featured in the booklet.

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2. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

   Originally published in 1858, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a series of personal essays ostensibly recounting the boarding-house breakfast-table conversation of "the Autocrat" and his table-mates; the Professor, the Landlady, the Schoolmistress, the Divinity Student, and so on. The book is both a timeless depiction of a witty, urbane, and genial critical intelligence, and a vivid record of 19th-century America in general, and Boston inte...

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3. Collector's Guide to Early Photographs - Mace, Henry O.

   Collector's Guide to Early Photographs provides proper focus to identifying, cataloging, and valuing cased images (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes) and photographs on paper (calotypes, albumen prints, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and stereographs). You will learn the historical and technical background for each techniques, what images are sought by collectors, and keys to preserving and displaying these important social documents.

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4. Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 - Trestain, Eileen Jahnke

   Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 is an informative and easy to use handbook for quilters, fabric collectors, and historians. The thousands of fabric swatches presented in this guidebook can help you determine the date of manufacture and something about the history of the piece. The samples represent fabrics made in the Americas from 1800 to 1960. Additional copies of this book may be ordered from: American Quilter's Society PO Box 329...

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5. Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach - Serrell, Beverly

   Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach presents the reader with excellent guidelines on the process of exhibit label planning, writing, design, and production.

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6. Furniture Care and Conservation - McGiffin, Robert F.

   In Furniture Care and Conservation McGiffin discusses the principles that guide modern furniture conservation treatment.

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7. Guide for a Small Map Collection - Farrell, Barbara E.

   Guide for a Small Map Collection is directed to those who, though they lack any formal background in map librarianship, unexpectedly find themselves in charge of a map collection or are confronted with the task of setting up a map library. Copies are available from: Association of Canadian Map Libraries c/o National Map Collection Public Archives of Canada 395 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N3

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8. Guide to the Use of Books and Libraries - Gates, Jean Key

   Guide to the Use of Books and Libraries provides a brief but comprehensive treatment of libraries, with emphasis upon the many kinds of library materials, their organization and arrangement, and their usefulness for specific purposes. The author has given attention to the historical development of the book and the library.

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9. Hopalong Cassidy Lends a Helping Hand - Lowe, Samuel Edward

   Hopalong Cassidy Lends a Helping Hand is a cardboard bound children's book by Bonnie Books published by Doubleday & Company. The cover has full color illustration of Hopalong Cassidy on his horse, Topper. He is talking to an elderly man.

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10. Hubley Toy Vehicles: 1946-1965 - Butler, Steve

    The Hubley Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1894 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and produced wonderful toys throughout its history. Early Hubley production consisted of numerous cast iron toys including various horse drawn vehicles, guns, household appliances, and more. With the automotive age, cars, trucks, and other transportation became their focus. This book details production from 1946 to 1965, when the company was purchased by Gabriel...

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11. Introduction to Museum Work - Burcaw, Ellis G.

    Introduction to Museum Work presents all the basics of museology. The central issues are discussed and definitions are given for all terms museum workers need to know.

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12. New Museum Registration Methods - Buck, Rebecca A.

    New Museum Registration Methods was written for museum collections personnel. It is a comprehensive volume on the registration, care, and management of collections in museums.

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13. Practical Geologist - Dixon, Dougal

    The Practical Geologist is an introductory guide to the basics of geology and to collecting and identifying rocks.

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14. Registration Methods for the Small Museum - Reibel, Daniel B.

    Registration Methods for the Small Museum presents preferred registration techniques with systems and forms which can be easily understood and adapted to virtually any museum.

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15. Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging - Blackaby, James R.

    Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging lists Chenhall categories, sub-categories, and object names for classifying manmade objects.

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