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National Freedman. Vol I. No. 11 by TRUTH Sojourner HAWKINS W. G.

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National Freedman. Vol I. No. 11
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TRUTH Sojourner HAWKINS W. G.
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1865. First Edition. (TRUTH, Sojourner) (THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT) (HAWKINS, W.G.). The National Freedman, A Monthly Journal of the New York National Freeman's Relief Association. Vol. I. New York, December 15, 1865. No. 11. New York: National Freedman's Relief Association, December 15, 1865 (i.e. December 18, 1865). Slim octavo, original cream self-wrappers, original stitching as issued; pp. (345) 346-384. $4800.First issue of the December 1865 issue of the National Freedman, prominently displaying the 13th Amendment on the front wrapper, this landmark publication also containing the dramatic eyewitness account of a streetcar conductor's attack on Sojourner Truth that led her to defiantly press charges for assault and battery, an exceptionally rare publication in fragile original wrappers.This pivotal issue of the monthly National Freedman leads with one of the earliest printings of the newly ratified 13th Amendment, which was passed by Congress January 31, 1865, but not ratified until December 6, 1865, mere days before its appearance on the cover of this issue as: ""Article XIII.—Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction"" (original emphasis). The 13th Amendment not only freed the slaves, it also represented a revolutionary ""expansion of liberty"" as the first of three Reconstruction amendments to grant fundamental new rights and liberties to Black men and women (MacPherson, Abraham Lincoln, 63). This landmark issue also features an eyewitness report documenting an attack on Sojourner Truth on a Washington, D.C. streetcar. While these were legally desegregated in March 1865, conductors often refused to allow Black men and women board or violently ejected them. Truth, born enslaved, is famed for her 1851 Ain't I a Woman? speech, as well as her eloquent defiance of slavery and racism, and her powerful support for women's rights. Prior to the streetcar conductor's assault, she had moved to Washington, D.C. to join the newly established Freedman's Bureau, and faced racist attacks on streetcars at least twice before. This early account of a September 18 assault was authored by white abolitionist Laura Haviland, who was with Truth that day. The article vividly describes the conductor's aggression as he tried eject Truth. ""'I shan't go off,' said she. 'Then I'll put you off,' and [he] strengthened his grasp upon her arms.'"" When she held fast to a railing, saying ""I'm not going off,"" the conductor shoved Truth harder. Haviland reports, ""I told him he must not put the women off that car. Said he excitedly: 'Does she belong to you? If she does, take her in out of the way,' and giving her a push… 'Don't push me over people,' said Sojourner… Sojourner's shoulder was swollen and very lame from the sprain caused by the wrench.""Sojourner Truth also made history in becoming ""the first African American to sue successfully in court over the issue of slavery when she retrieved her son Peter"" (Encyclopedia of African American History, 552-54). ""American legal narratives of the 19th century tell us that slaves, free Blacks and women had no legal voice. Nevertheless Sojourner Truth initiated successful lawsuits, attempted to vote, petitioned Congress, and in many other ways insisted upon a legal and political voice"" (Accomando in MELUS V.28, No.1, 61; emphasis added). Her persistence in the legal sphere, against all odds, is especially evident here. For, with the backing of the Freedman's Bureau, the conductor Weeden was arrested and Truth pressed charges for assault and battery. Haviland notes the case was due to open on ""the first Wednesday in October next."" Given Truth's own account of this incident in a separately known October 1 letter, dictated to her friend Amy Post, the date of Weeden's court appearance would have been October 5. In another 1865 letter by Truth, written from Washington, D.C., she noted: ""Miss Haviland is here on business… she does the reading and writing for me while here… Truth was a sophisticated consumer of the news. She had newspapers read to her, not solely for information… but also to compare their different accounts"" (Grigsby, Enduring Truths, 109). ""Although the charges against Weeden were eventually dropped, the court proceedings were covered by the local newspapers, and the publicity pressured the streetcar companies to do a better job of enforcing the law"" (DeFerrari, Capitol Streetcars, 58). Edited by William G. Hawkins. This is the 11th issue of the monthly National Freedman, which began publication the same year by the New York National Freedman's Relief Association. The Amendment appears above the printed date at the front wrapper's lower edge stating: ""this 18th day of December"": certified and signed in print by ""William H Seward, Secretary of State."" A March 1865 bill created the Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau) in the War Department. An earlier printing of Assault on Sojourner Truth, as noted here, came in the form of a September 25 letter from Haviland, ""To the Editor of the Standard""—likely the National Anti-Slavery Standard, founded in 1840 by Lydia Maria Child and David Child. This issue of National Freedman also containing numerous reports on the monumental hurdles faced by Black men and women across the South, including thousands made homeless as land was ""repossessed by late rebel owners."" Text fresh with light corner edge-wear to fragile wrappers and several tangential leaves, minimally affecting text to rear wrapper. An exceptional near-fine copy.
Papeles de Nueva Espana. Segunda Serie

Papeles de Nueva Espana. Segunda Serie by Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del (1842-1916)

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Papeles de Nueva Espana. Segunda Serie
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Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del (1842-1916)
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37 volumes. Volume I Suma de Visitas de Pueblos por Orden Alfabetico: 332+xi pages with index. Volume II Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan Peticiones de Conquistadores Corregimientos de la Nueva Espana: 50 pages. Volume II Relaciones Geografricas de Michoacan Comision que dio Don Luis de Velasco, virrey da la Nueva Espana, al licenciado Lebron de Quinones, para visitor pueblos de indios, 1553: [51]-98 pages. Volume II Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan Relacion: Memoria de los pueblos de la provincial de Colima: [99]-144 pages. Volume II Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan Memoria de los pueblos de la provincial de Colima, Amula, Zapotlan. – ABECEDARIO de los vecinos encomenderos de Colima - CUADERNO de las cedulas de los encomenderos – SUMA de los pueblos encomenderos: [145]-217 pages. Volume II Relacions Geograficas de Michoacan Relacion Segunda Parte: 61 pages. Volume II Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan Relacion Tercera y Cuarta Parte Carta: 130 pages. Volume III Descripcion del Arzobispado de Mexico: 161 pages with facsimile. Volume III, Suplemento 1 Informaciones Secretas del Arzobispado de Mexico 1569: 47 pages with an illustration. Volume III Supplemento 2: Pareceres de Luis de Castilla, Regidor y Bernardino del Castillo Poblador de los primeros: [48]-91 pages. Volume III Suplemento 3: Pareceres de Juan Guerrero, Antiguo Poblador = El Bachiller Francisco de Carrizo: [92]-140 pages. Volume III Suplemento 4: Pareceres: del Licenciado Fulge = nio de Vigue Abogado de la Real Audiencia = Martin de Araguen: [141]-174 pages. Volume III Suplemento 5: Don Fernando de Portugal, Tesorero de su Magestad = Doctor D Rodrigo Barbosa, Chanire de Mexico = Hernan Gutierrez Altamirano.: [175]-231 pages. Volume III Suplemento 6. Pareceres: de Hernan Gutierrez Altamirano. El Doctor Zumero. Sacra Catolica Magestad. = Gavriel Diez, Tesorero de la Casa de Monedad. Pedro Requena: [232]-298 pages. Volume III Suplemento 7. Pareceres: de el Bachiller Martinez, de don Francisco de Velazco. Mandamiento de los Alcaldes del Crimen, Auto de la Audiencia de Mex: [299]-339 pages. Volume IV Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Oaxaca: 320+iii pages with 12 facsimile indigenous maps. Volume V Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Tlaxcala: 288+iv pages with five folding maps. Volume VI Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Mexico: 322+ii pages with maps (11 folding), Volume VII Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Mexico y de la de Michoacán:29 pages with five folding maps. Volume VII Suplemento Relaciones Geograficas de Miochocan: Xiquilpa, Tepic, Sntipac, Acaponeta, del Obispado de Mechoacan: 46 pages with map. Volume VII Suplemento Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan: Instrucsion Relaciones: Chocandiran Tarequato: [47]-84 pages. Volume VI Suplemento: Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan: Relaciones: De Perivan, Tarimeo y Necotlan: [85]-112 pages. Volume VII Suplemento Relacion de Celaya y su Partido Ano de 1570: [113]-146 pages with map. Volume VII Suplemento Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan: Relacion de Chilchota: 56 pages. Volume VIII, Number 1 Relacion de las Minas Relacion de Compostela Relacion de las Minas de Xocotlan Relacion de Nuchistlan: 75 pages. Volume VIII Number 2 Relacion de la Villa de la Purificacion y sus Pueblos: [77]-132 pages. Volume VIII, Number 3 La Villa de San Martin y Lierena e Minas de Sombrerete: [133]-190 pages. Volume VIII Number 4 Dilla de Xerez: [191]-260 pages. Volume VIII Number 5 Minas de Fresnillo: [261]-302 pages. Volume VIII Number 6 Otras Relaciones Sobre las Minas de Fresnillo: [303]-336. Volume 9 Relaciones Geograficas de Galicia, Viscaya y Leon: 37 pages. Volume 9 La Ciudad de Guadalajara en el Siglo XVI, la Salida 2a Salida: 58 pages. Volume 9 Pueblo de Aguacatlan Villa de Culiacan: [59]-100 pages. Volume 9 Provincia de los Tagues, Provincia de Zinaloa, Descubrimiento de Topia, Salida de Guadalaxara a la Parte Septientrional, Villa de los Lagos, 2a Salida de Guadalaxara para Zacatecas 3a Salida de Guadalaxara para Zacatecas: [101]-144 pages. Volume 9 Villa de Xerez Ciudad de Nuestra Senora de Zacatecas Salida de Zacatecas Azia el Oriente: [145]-182 pages. Volume 9 Villa del Saltillo, Valle de las Parras, Ier. Camino de Zacatecas al Reino de la Viscaya, Villa de Llerena, Villa del Nombre de Dios, 2o. Camino de Zacatecas al Reino de la Viscaya: [183]-220 pages. Volume 9 Reino de la Nueva Viscaya Villa de Durango Reino de Leon: [221]-267. Various sizes from Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") to octavo (8" x 6") bound in red cloth with original wrappers bound in, the other volumes bound in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Handbook of Middle American Indians, volume 13. First edition.Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when Paso y Troncoso as a young man had helped Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta prepare the latter's Bibliografia mexicana del siglo XVI. Second, he expected to copy documentary source materials related to colonial Mexico, an elaborate group of varied papers which he generically called "Papeles de Nueva Espana." In a letter from Madrid, Paso y Troncoso outlined to the Secretary of Public Instruction his views and plans for the "Papeles de Nueva Espana". He mentioned that for various reasons the material had he had compiled for publication under that general title should be divided into series, each according to the class of data it contained. Each series would begin with a volume 1, and subsequent volumes would include similar documents, rather than being only a single series with diverse materials. Various circumstances frustrated Paso y Troncoso's dream of putting numerous volumes of several series each of the PNE into print. He published four relatively complete volumes, and two partial volumes, of Series 2. "Geography and Statistics." Complete were volumes 1, 4, 5, 6 and partially complete were volumes 3 and 7 (all included in these volumes). At Paso y Troncoso's death various works were in the printing houses of Spain. Most of these volumes seem to have been lost or dispersed. Only volume 1 of series was published, Salazar's Cronica de Nueva Espana (lacking in these volumes, but offered separately by the Hispanic Society). Several later hands have dipped into the mass of material Paso y Troncoso compiled for PNE and have utilized his transcripts or copies for publication. Series 1, "Bibliographies," was respectably issued in four volumes under the general title Indices de documentos de Nueva Espana existentes en el Archivo de Indias de Sevilla, 1928-1933 lacking in these volumes. The unpublished portions of Series 2, volume 2 "Geography and Statistics," have appeared under the imprint of Luis Vargas Rea included in these volumes. Vargas Rea in his supplement to Series 2, volume 3, in 7 parts included in these volumes did not complete the reports on the archdiocese of Mexico. From 1944 through 1946, Vargas Rea published most of the hitherto unpublished materials Paso y Troncoso had compiled for volume 7, Relationes geograficas from Michoacan. Six of the eight parts are included in these volumes. In 1948 Volume 9 of PNE, Series 2, appeared under the Vargas Rea imprint in seven small volumes included in these volumes It reproduced what Paso y Troncoso had considered to be the second part of the Memoriales of Bishop Alonso Mota y Escobar, a portion dealing with Nueva Galicia from a manuscript he had found in the British Museum. The whole of the Vargas Rea publications were numbered limited edition prints usually not exceeding 150 and often not more than 100 copies. Thus making the entire printing of Paso y Troncoso vary scarce.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.Condition:George Foster's stamp on front wrappers, edge wear, some soiling else a very good set of a rare piece of Colonial Mexican history.
[Manuscript Letter Written by Ramon Adame Warning of the Approach of 10,000 "Perfidious American Enemies" from the North]

[Manuscript Letter Written by Ramon Adame Warning of the Approach of 10,000 "Perfidious American Enemies" from the North] by [Mexican-American War]

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[Manuscript Letter Written by Ramon Adame Warning of the Approach of 10,000 "Perfidious American Enemies" from the North]
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[Mexican-American War]
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San Luis Potosi: May 8, 1847. About very good.. [2]pp. Previously folded. Short closed tear and minor loss at edges of old horizontal fold. Small area of light staining. Accomplished in a neat secretarial script. A fascinating letter from the governor of San Luis Potosí, Ramon Adame, that relates reports on the northern front of the Mexican-American War, written two months after the Battle of Saltillo and just days after the American invaders had captured Puebla to the south. The letter is addressed to Ignacio de Mora y Villamil, the General-in-Chief of Mexico's northern army, presumably with the goal of spurring action from his forces with this new information. Adame discusses troop movements and defenses in Real de Catorce and Matehuala to the north, and relates reports from Mexican officers that 10,000 American reinforcements were approaching Saltillo and Monterrey: "Los referidos Capitanes aseguraron q[ue] la proxima entrante semana hacian sino habian hecho ya movimiento en direccion a estos puntos las fuerzas enemigas en numero de ocho a die mil hombres: que de Agua Nueva al Saltillo hay de cinco a seis mil, y el resto en Monterey. En Matehuala, hoy corre la voz unisona q[ue] dentro de quince, o a los mas, veinte dias deben llegarse por estas villas los enemigos." He then writes at length concerning the need to improve observation of the nefarious American enemies, in order that news might be received quickly and directly, and inquires as to how to pay for such agents: "Al vecindario a una finita para acordar medidas salvadores, y principalmente q[ue] por carensia de fondos se espensare a una o dos personas q[ue] observase los moviminetos y direccion de los perfidos enemigos norte americanos, no logre reuniera, y ya la esperienca acreditada q[ue] no tienen efecto esta clase de emerciones.... Lo que traslado a V.S. para conocimineto del E.S. Gob[erna]dor, y con el fin de que se sirva decirme de que fondos puede hacerse el gasto para los agentes vigilan los operaciones del enemigo." A very interesting snapshot of the lack of resources and organization that led to rapid defeat in the Mexican-American War.
Hay k'Aghak'ats'iakan p'Ordzadate Miats'eal Nahangats' Shrjanayin Dataranin Mej: Pashtonakan Atenagrut'iwn

Hay k'Aghak'ats'iakan p'Ordzadate Miats'eal Nahangats' Shrjanayin Dataranin Mej: Pashtonakan Atenagrut'iwn by [Armenian Americana]. Tik'ichean, T.A., translator

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Hay k'Aghak'ats'iakan p'Ordzadate Miats'eal Nahangats' Shrjanayin Dataranin Mej: Pashtonakan Atenagrut'iwn
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[Armenian Americana]. Tik'ichean, T.A., translator
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Boston, 1925. Good plus.. 104pp. Original light blue wrappers printed in dark blue. Some chipping to spine, moderate edge wear and soiling. Internally clean. Inscribed by the translator on the title page. An unrecorded Armenian translation of the transcript of an important trial in Portland, Oregon involving Armenian-American rug dealer Tatos O. Cartozian, whose citizenship was challenged by the United States government in 1924 on the basis that Armenians were supposedly Asian and therefore ineligible to become American citizens. The defense argued that Armenians were white, even bringing witnesses from racially exclusive fraternal organizations who stated that they admitted Armenians. The court decided that Armenians were indeed eligible for citizenship. The cover title of the present pamphlet translates to The Armenian Civil Expert in United States District Court (Official Transcript) 1925. The final three pages list other books for sale published by the Armenian Educational Foundation. We could locate no other copies of this Armenian translation of Cartozian's famous naturalization case. "In 1790, with the passage of the Naturalization Act, citizenship in the United States became officially restricted to 'free white persons'.... Between 1878 and 1952 -- when racial restrictions were removed from U.S. naturalization law -- émigrés from China, Burma, Japan, Mexico, Armenia, and other countries fought fifty-two race-defining legal battles in U.S. courts to either gain or maintain their American citizenship -- all of which hinged on judicial interpretations of whiteness. In In re Halladjian (1909), Armenians were declared white and made eligible for citizenship.... But, during the early 1920s a significant shift in judicial interpretations of naturalization law led to a reevaluation of Armenian status.... In 1924, the United States challenged the citizenship of Tatos O. Cartozian, a Portland rug dealer who had gained his citizenship in 1923, seventeen years after his emigration from Armenia.  The prosecuting attorney, John S. Coke, argued that 'It is the contention of the government that it makes no difference whether a man is a Caucasian or not or what the racial and language history of his people may be if the man on the street does not recognize him as white.'  Cartozian’s lawyers responded by arguing that both science and common knowledge identified Armenians as white.  Scientific testimony was given by anthropologist Franz Boas and ethnologists Roland Dixon and Paul Rohrbach in support of Cartozian's case.  To support the claim that Armenians were also commonly known to be white, the defense team drew testimony from leaders of racially-restrictive fraternal organizations like the Loyal Order of the Moose and the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon all of who attested to the common interpretation of Armenians as racially white, using Armenian membership in their organizations as evidence.  In the end, the judge agreed with the defense -- Armenians were white, not Asian" - Oregon History Project.
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Statistique de la Belgique :Agriculture : Recensement General de 1895 : Atlas by BRUSSELS, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE.

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Statistique de la Belgique :Agriculture : Recensement General de 1895 : Atlas
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1899. BRUSSELS, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE. Statistique de la Belgique: Agriculture: Recensement Général de 1895: publié pare le Ministre de l'Agriculture: Atlas. 34 Plates. Large folio, 485 x 360 mm., in publisher's linen-backed cloth portfolio. Brussels: Ministre de l'Agriculture, 1899. A splendid example of the works published by the French statistical bureau very much in the style established by Charles Josph Minard. On the outside the book appears drab and undistinguished, but on the inside it is alive with a profusion of dazzling coloured charts. These statistical works have been called "the finest specimens of French graphic art in the century" (H.G. Funkhuser). A rare book with OCLC listing only NYPL, LC and 1 copy in the Netherlands, 1 in Spain and 1 in Hungary.
The Depression Causes Community Funds to Struggle to Meet Increased

The Depression Causes Community Funds to Struggle to Meet Increased by [GREAT DEPRESSION]

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The Depression Causes Community Funds to Struggle to Meet Increased
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[GREAT DEPRESSION]
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"The economic hurricane has wrecked homes, disrupted family life, destroyed health, lowered morale, crushed the spirit of courage and stifled enterprise and ambition … It has made more pitiful the plight of those many hundreds who continually are charges of the chest agencies." This small archive of pamphlets for the public and subscription cards, guidelines, and suggestions for fundraisers illustrates the tactics local Community Fund and Community Chest organizations employed across the United States from New York to Utah. [GREAT DEPRESSION]. Archive of 18 pamphlets and pledge cards and 7 typed lists, drafts, and guidelines, all related to Community Fund campaigns in Utah, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York, 1933-1934. 110 pp., 4 x 6 in. to 8½ x 11 in. Items and Excerpts: - HUNGER that asks for more than food, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1933, 4 pp. "Human Needs remain the same—whatever the plight of the unemployed, although greatly intensified by the extraordinary conditions that have prevailed for the past three years. The economic hurricane has wrecked homes, disrupted family life, destroyed health, lowered morale, crushed the spirit of courage and stifled enterprise and ambition. It has forced increased leisure time, which must be properly employed. It has made more pitiful the plight of those many hundreds who continually are charges of the chest agencies." - "Suggestions for Members of the Advance Guard," typescript, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1933. - "Instructions for Firm Captains 1934 Campaign," typescript, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1933, 8 pp. - Pledge cards for Community Chest or Fund of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1934 (3); South Bend [Indiana], 1933 (3); Springfield [Missouri], 1934; Butler [Pennsylvania], 1933-1934 (2) - It Takes More Than a Grocery Order – Will You Help!, South Bend, Indiana, ca. 1933, 6 pp. "YOU Have a Job! There are still thousands of people in South Bend who have not." "A Man's a Man When He Does HIS Share!" "The money you spend for one-fourth of a tank of gas would make a fine weekly pledge. The price of one movie a week would be a splendid gift. The price of one soda or stein of beer a week would help the Community Fund to help others marvelously." "President Roosevelt Says: 'I want to tell you definitely and clearly that it would be nothing short of a calamity to have private social and relief work collapse at this time.'" - The Community Fund School Contest, South Bend, Indiana, ca. 1933, 4 pp. "The Community Fund, itself, does not give 'charity' or take care of orphans, or sick people, or help poor mothers to take care of their babies, or operate hospitals, or feed hungry homeless men and women, or help boys and girls, or prevent tuberculosis, or aid ex-soldiers. But its 19,000 members do make possible all of these services to the needy people of South Bend, by contributing to the annual Community Fund." "The Community Fund has 17 member agencies, and they do thousands of fascinating, interesting things. We want the young people of South Bend to know about these things, and that is the reason for this contest." - Untitled Pamphlet, South Bend, Indiana, ca. 1933, 6 pp. "'Obviously there could be no business recovery in South Bend without these essential social services.'—John N. Hunter, General Chairman, South Bend's Mobilization for Human Needs." "Customarily, the Community Fund appeal in this city has been conducted in May. Due to the bank moratorium a Spring appeal this year was impossible. The result is that all of the Community Fund agencies are now without funds with which to maintain their work.... For these reasons, the Community Fund appeal is being rushed to completion just as rapidly as possible. In my opinion, this situation constitutes a major crisis in the affairs of this city." "This is an unusual year—a year in which most of us have had to readjust ourselves to an entirely new set of conditions. The number of people who can give to the Community Fund this year will be limited; for giving implies that the donor is parting with a portion of his surplus resources. Most people, however, can share—for sharing is simply dividing up what you have with someone who has less than you do." "This booklet … was printed on wrapping paper and newsprint to save expense." - "Ammunition for the Sales Army," typescript, South Bend, Indiana, ca. 1933, 4 pp. - We Do… OUR PART! Suggestions to Community Fund Workers, Springfield, Missouri, November 1933, 4 pp. "This whole campaign has been developed on the thought of success. You have been asked to serve because we know you will contribute to that success." "You are selling the work of fifteen essential welfare agencies. Submit the individual list to your prospect—determine his interest—and sell him on the combined support of this concrete interest rather than on any lump sum to an abstract general movement." "Try to secure from previous subscribers at least as much as was subscribed last year." "STOP! 1. Do not solicit school teachers or school employes. 2. Do not solicit colored prospects." - Untitled Pamphlet, Springfield, Missouri, ca. 1933, 3 pp. "Those of Us Who Still Have a Job Have Had the 'Breaks' We should feel so THANKFUL we should share what we have with our less fortunate neighbor." "ALL industrial and commercial wage earners or salaried employes are being asked to subscribe on the following standard: 2 days pay if earning $2,000 a year or less / 3 days pay if earning $2,100 to $2,900 a year / 5 days pay if earning $3,000 to $3,900 a year / 6 days pay if earning $4,000 to $4,900 a year" "Help Put Your Company Quota Over the Top" - Springfield must not go down on the public record as a PAUPER CITY: WE CAN AND MUST TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN!, Springfield, Missouri, ca. 1933, 4 pp. "We have been told very emphatically by our President that Springfield citizens MUST, through the Community Chest agencies, continue to help their own unfortunate and continue to aid those ineligible for Government help.... Federal aid will come to Springfield only in the proportion to which Springfield cares for its own." - "Suggestions for Captains – Employee Division / 1934 Community Chest Appeal," typescript, Kokomo, Indiana, ca. 1933, 2 pp. - "Strategy Board List," typescript, Lansing, Michigan, ca. 1933, 3 pp. & 4 pp. (2 copies) The Great Flood of March 23-26, 1913 was one of the deadliest in U.S. history, killing approximately 650 people and leaving more than 250,000 homeless. Residents and businesses in Lansing sent more than $2,300 in relief supplies to Cincinnati, Youngstown, Columbus, Dayton, and other Ohio cities damaged by the flood. - "Secretary" to Robson Bro's Carpet Co., [Lansing, Michigan], March 31, 1913, unsigned carbon copy of typescript, 1 p. "Your favor … with enclosed remittance for flood sufferers has been received and turned over to the treasure. We wish to thank you at this time for your prompt co-operation and take particular pride in the fact, that you and many other members have so generously helped in this cause." - Welfare Council of New York City, How to Secure Service for Those Who Need It, November 1, 1933, 16 pp. "To save time, effort and money, both of the person needing help and of the agencies providing health and welfare services, read instructions carefully before sending a person to an agency." Historical Background The first "Community Fund" was founded in Cleveland, Ohio. During World War I, "War Chest" fundraising campaigns were held nationwide to help provide relief for the armed forces, their families, and European refugees. In 1919, a group in Rochester, New York, employed the name "Community Chest" for their fundraising campaign that allocated money to local agencies providing social services. Over the next decade, 353 such organizations were founded. With the unprecedented challenges of the Great Depression, local relief organizations struggled to meet the increasing demands of cities and towns where more needed relief and fewer could give in support. Overwhelmed state and local governments, historically responsible for the poor, looked both to the federal government and to private aid groups for help. Rather than having so many individual charities vying for support during the Great Depression, some towns and cities organized a combined appeal. By 1948, there were more than 1,000 Community Chest-type organizations, and by 1963, after several name changes, the term United Way became standard.
Myths and Techno-Fantasies: The First Publication of the Black Mesa Defense Fund

Myths and Techno-Fantasies: The First Publication of the Black Mesa Defense Fund

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Myths and Techno-Fantasies: The First Publication of the Black Mesa Defense Fund
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(Santa Fe, New Mexicon: Black Mesa Defense Fund, 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. Tabloid. Measuring 11½" x 14¾". 28pp. Loose unstapled sheets in self-wrappers. Near fine with some toning and horizontal crease from being folded, as issued. The first publication issued by the Black Mesa Defense Fund, a group formed by activist Jack Loeffler to assist Hopi and Navajo People's effort to resist the Peabody Coal Company's strip-mining plans in Northern Arizona. Contents include two articles by Loeffer ("The Time of Great Purification" and "Indians Turn Off Power Plant"), along with additional pieces about the dangers of strip mining, the energy crisis, and the depletion of local water sources. While the group's efforts were short-lived, the group was mentioned by Loeffler's friend, Edward Abbey, in his book, *The Monkey Wrench Gang*. Very uncommon. *OCLC* locates two copies; one at Yale and another at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
All New Hints from Heloise
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All New Hints from Heloise

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All New Hints from Heloise
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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9780399515101
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Near Fine
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New York: Perigee, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. 16th. Near fine in wrappers. Light browning on page edges.
Autograph letter signed to an unnamed colleague

Autograph letter signed to an unnamed colleague by Broca, Paul

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Autograph letter signed to an unnamed colleague
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Broca, Paul
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1867. Broca, Paul (1824-80). A.L.s. to an unidentified colleague ("Cher et savant confrere"), dated 15 Feb. 1867. 3pp. 128 x 102 mm. Creased horizontally, mounted. Accompanied by a halftone reproduction of a photographic portrait of Broca. Correcting a misunderstanding that had arisen during a conversation about Broca's Traite des tumeurs (1866-69): "Je serais desole qu'il restait dans votre esprit le moindre doute sur la nature de notre conversation d'aujourd'hui. Vous vous souvenez sans doute qu'en abordant je vous ai remercie de votre article, puis que je suis alle chercher le livre que je voulais consulter, et qu'enfin, a mon retour, vous retrouvant avec notre ami commun M. R, j'ai repris langue avec vous et que c'est vous qui avez bien voulu remettre la conversation sur mon traite du tumeur. C'est alors que, me souvenant des reproches que m'avait jadis adresse M. R sur mon ardeur trop passionnee pour le [---], j'ai fait allusion au jugement inverse que vous aviez recemment porte sur moi, avec une bienveillance Ègale a la sienne. Dans cette conversation, j'ai parle comme je pensais, suivant mon habitude, mais je suis certes bien loin d'avoir eu l'intention de vous demander une rectification quelconque. Or, votre obligeante lettre de ce soir me fais craindre que vous m'ayez attribue cette pensee, qui n'etait certainement pas dans mon esprit. [I would be sorry if there remained in your mind the least doubt about the nature of our conversation today. You undoubtedly remember that when I met you I thanked you for your article, then went to look for the book that I wanted to consult, and that finally, finding you with our mutual friend M. Raige [?], I began talking with you again and that it was you who agreed to postpone the conversation on my treatise on tumors. At this point in time, remembering that M. Raige had formerly reproached me on my excessive enthusiasm for [---], I referred to the opposing judgment that you had recently so kindly related to me. In this conversation I spoke as I thought, as is my practice, but I am certainly far from intending to ask you for an unspecified correction. However, your kind letter of this evening makes me fear that you attributed this thought to me, which was certainly not in my mind.] Broca is best known for his contributions to neurology, including his role in the discovery of cortical localization in the brain, as well as for his pioneering work in physical anthropology. However, he also wrote extensively on pathology during the early part of his scientific career. .
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The Many Faces of Truth. Homage to Dali [Graphic Designer's Dummy] by Spalaikovitch, Pierre

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The Many Faces of Truth. Homage to Dali [Graphic Designer's Dummy]
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Spalaikovitch, Pierre
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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San Francisco: Strictly Limited Editions, 1988. Softcover. Graphic designer Albert De Nola's dummy (edition limited to 350 numbered copies), this one with embossed "For Alberto" on the limitation page and the etchings; assembled model of the box - card stock in black and gold; booklet on cream stock ("containing nine texts and the justification of the tirage"), tied with a decorative rope; three plates with etchings. Box with a few worn spots to edges; light general wear; booklet and etchings fine; overall in very good to near fine condition. Artist Pierre Spalaikovitch (1946 - ) was born in Belgrad in a Franco - Serbian family. After working as a scenography assistant, he moved to France in 1971 and later, in 1984, to California, where he worked with various mediums, but specifically mastered the process of etching. He opened an art school in Los Angeles and developed a new etching technique with a copperplate aquatint. Pierre moved back to France in 1998 and continued working and exhibiting all over the world. In 1988, inspired by Salvador Dali, Spalaikovitch created the current set to contain 9 plates, each one illustrating an important subject or moment of Dali's life, which when placed together in two specific orders, combine into a portrait of Dali and a portrait of Dali's wife Gala. Also to be included were additional 2 large, hand-colored etchings and the booklet, describing each moment. The overall design of the layout (box, booklet, etc.) were created by Bay Area graphic artist and board game inventor Albert De Nola. As the current set was his working model, it included 3 of the 9 plates, dedicated to him, with embossed "Alberto" beneath each plate.
The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales Retold

The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales Retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen [illus.]

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The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales Retold
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Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen [illus.]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 244 pp. 16 color plates by Nielsen. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit of light toning to spine. Boards are square with very light shelfwear and nudging at head and tail. Top of text block a bit smudged. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Autograph Letter Signed, Buffalo, New York, April 3, 1839, to his cousin, Peter Nesbit, Pickering, Upper Canada by Haldane, James

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Autograph Letter Signed, Buffalo, New York, April 3, 1839, to his cousin, Peter Nesbit, Pickering, Upper Canada
Author
Haldane, James
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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Scottish Immigrant in New York fears War between the US and Britain during the "Aroostook War", 1839. folio, three pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, some minor spotting, small tears along folds, else very good. "…I received the 21 of February giving a account of the stormes that was along the western coast of great Britain…I have had a visit from my brother from Sheldon [Valley?]. He is thinking of going home this fall. I should like very much to go home to see my people but I have got myself much entangled that I do not think that I can get away at all. I am determent not to work for any more men that cannot pay me down every month…I should like very much to hear how you are getting along in this trublesome times. I hope that there will not be any war but I think it remains with England now, war or not war. I have not seen any news since the maine concern occurred, there was some very warm speeches given on the house of commons and likewise in the house of Lords, the yankees hear seem to like very much to have Kick up with England, the feel so very smart with ther way of it but rather I think the would succeed so well as the think, you can write me all the news that is going on in Canada and if you are still remaining in the same place that you was before do think that in case of a war that you would be trubled with being a solder. I am afreaid you would, I should be very sauraw to hear of your being compelled to fight in the field of battle, I do not exacly know that I would have to to however I do not think the war make alians fight, the would make us go back into the country away from the lines so as we could have no communication with army. [Either side?] of war was to come I suppose the Banks on this devalued all suspend specie payments, it would break down every kind trade so that the would be neather one thing nor another doing,,,there has been a great prospect of a good business down hear this summer but it don't look so well since the maine affair commenced, perhaps it may die away again…I like to get a rise upon my wages. I have had 15 dolars a month all winter. I have had good deal of night work and some little things that I did not like but I am shure of money when it is wrought for and it is not evry place that you can get that in this country. Especealy about Buffalo….Think my last letter had been waylaid some way, if you did not get it and if you did and not returned an answer to me I should feel very much displeased at you but I cannot think you could act way to a frend and in a strange land far from our land of nativity,,," The Aroostook War was a confrontation between the United States and Great Britain over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the state of Maine. Following other minor diplomatic crises between the two countries, in December 1838 there was a bloodless skirmish between American and British Canadian armed lumberjacks. Maine Militia units were called out in February 1839, but there was no actual combat, despite reports of British troops gathering at the border. When Haldane wrote this letter, outcries in Congress led to authorization of a force of 50,000 men to defend the border in the event British troops crossed into US territory. The flap was finally resolved by diplomacy, with a British-American treaty signed in 1841. When he wrote this letter, Haldane, probably an immigrant from Scotland, seems to have been working for at a nursery and seed store near Buffalo. Whether or not he remained in New York is unknown. Peter Nesbit, also a Scotsman, apparently stayed in Canada for the rest of his life. There is a record of his death in Ontario in 1896.
Heaven's My Destination

Heaven's My Destination by Wilder, Thornton

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Heaven's My Destination
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Wilder, Thornton
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8x5x1. Signed by author. 1935 11th printing. Signed without inscription by author on title page. Includes new facsimile jacket. Boards a bit toned with a few faint signs of foxing. vi, 304 pp. Meet George Marvin Brush -- Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression, and one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois -- and into the soul of America itself.
Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequência do Dicionário bibliográfico português. Tomo II: Br-Cu

Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequência do Dicionário bibliográfico português. Tomo II: Br-Cu by Afonso, João

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Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequência do Dicionário bibliográfico português. Tomo II: Br-Cu
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Afonso, João
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Some bumping to the edge else near fine in a like dust jacket.
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Angra do Heroísmo: Secr. Regional da Educação e Cultura, 1985. First edition. Cloth. Some bumping to the edge else near fine in a like dust jacket.. 462 pp. 8vo.
Dracula Unbound (Signed)

Dracula Unbound (Signed) by Aldiss, Brian W.

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Dracula Unbound (Signed)
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Aldiss, Brian W.
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Fine
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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Fine. Frank Mayo. octavo, 196 pages; publisher's red full-leather binding, decorated in gilt. SIGNED on a front end paper by the author. Silk moire end papers, silk bookmark, all edges gilt. A signed first edition.
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Yosemite Valley by ADAMS, Ansel

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Yosemite Valley
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ADAMS, Ansel
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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Redwood City:: 5 Associates,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Edited by Nancy Newhall. 45 black and white plates. Third printing. Very good in a very good (chipped at the spine ends, minor shelf wear, foxing on front flap) dust jacket. ; 64 pages .
Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam.
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Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam. by MILLER, John Grider.

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Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam.
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MILLER, John Grider.
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9781557505491
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Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1557505497 . Second printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. .
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100 GREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES by BAHN, PAUL G

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100 GREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
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BAHN, PAUL G
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NYC, Barnes and Noble Books, 1995. 256pp. Hardcover with dj. In fine condition. Archeological discoveries from ancient cave paintings in France to the middle east and far east. Cloth, 256 pp., illus. (chiefly col.), maps, biblio., index; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean fine copy. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Amazing discoveries such as the tomb of Tutankhamen, the buried city of Pompeii, the cave of Lascaux, and the Terracotta Army may be the headline grabbers, but archaeology is not just about rich burials and treasure, or pharaohs, emperors, and kings. The real thrill of archaeology is the way in which it has unearthed the everyday lives of our ancestors, ordinary people not unlike ourselves. Any given discovery--from a fragment of fossilized bone to a shard of pottery--has the potential to radically alter our picture of the past. This beautifully illustrated volume presents 100 of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries--from rock art to tattooed ice maidens, from mammoth bone houses to Assyrian palaces, from fossil hominids to writing systems, and from caves to shipwrecks. And with the growing battery of tools and techniques
As They Were

As They Were by Fisher, M.F.K.

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As They Were
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Fisher, M.F.K.
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Cream boards, cream cloth spine, title in gilt. Very good, in good dust wrapper
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards, cream cloth spine, title in gilt. Very good, in good dust wrapper. 261 Pages. 22 x 15 cm. A collection of twenty of Fisher's essays. "The enticing places, the memorable ( sometimes mysterious) encounters that have lighted her path over the years - interlaced with new reflections and sides." Boards and interior clean, dust wrapper (illustrations by Judith Clancy) toned, soiled and chipped with 2 cm. loss at head of cover. Covered in protective mylar.

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