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Publisher / Publication Date: Wallace-Homestead Book Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.72 RINGruhn, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miller Freeman Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 GRUBurns, Cherie.
Summary: A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.953 ROGERS, MILLICENT BURSanti, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KP Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.62 SANBemis, Bette L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. Ltd. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.411 BEMRaab, Nathan
Summary: "A work that compellingly draws back the curtain on the activity of finding, authenticating, purchasing, and selling to collectors some of the most significant historical documents and artifacts of the past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 790.1 RAASummers, Beth
Contents: Dolls -- Gift sets -- Fashions -- Paper dolls -- Animals -- Activity sets -- Household -- Paper goods -- Publications -- Miscellaneous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7 SUMBaker, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.2 BAKCarter, Arlan.
Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CARSummary: Story of Joe E. Bussard Jr, whose lifelong mission is to rescue America's roots music from oblivion: musician, broadcaster and obsessive long-time collector of 1920s and 30s American music on original 78 rpm records.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DESSummary: Chronicles a 10,000 mile journey around the U.S. in search of 'trackers', fanatical collectors of 8-track tapes, those funky, chunky, clunky pre-recorded plastic cartridges from the '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Cinema 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOMcGregor, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Isis audio books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 091.09 DE HSpitznagel, Eric
Summary: High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live in this memoir of one man's search for his lost record collection. As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels acutely the loss of…something. Freedom? Maybe. Coolness? Could be. The records he sold in a financial pinch? Definitely. To find out for sure, he sets out on a quest to find the original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Plume book 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPITZNAGEL, ERIC SPIDedman, Bill.
Summary: "When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE DEDStrouse, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORGAN, J.P. STRGefter, Philip.
Summary: Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography in which Wagstaff's largely overlooked influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century, is portrayed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGSTAFF, SAMUEL J GEFKovel, Ralph M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Reference 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 748.82 KOVKurella, Elizabeth M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.075 KURRoerig, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2006
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Summary: Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE GORSummary: Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland examines the life of Peggy Guggenheim, the wealthy socialite who amassed a world-class collection of modern European and American art. Vreeland does a good job of examining the different sides to Guggenheim's life and cohering them into some sort of whole by the end of this cradle-to-grave account. She was blessed by a stroke of incredible good fortune: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEGPeterson, Harold L. (Harold Leslie)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Co. 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.44 PETChurchill, Christine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperResource 2002