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2024.18.4 - Magazine
This magazine titled, "Good Housekeeping" Volumn No.15 No. 4,' was published in October of 1942 by The Cuneo Press, Inc. It has an array of articles on housekeeping and household subjects. The front cover has tears in it and the back cover is missing. It is in poor condition.

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2024.18.5 - Card, Report
This report card was made for Judy Lee Atkins when she was in the first grade at age 5. The date of the report card is unknown. It scores her in areas including progress in school, maturity, cooperation, self-control, neatness of work and work habits, etc. Judy Atkins was given satisfactory scores by her teacher Lois B. Groves at Central School in Alamosa, CO. The report card is in good condition.

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2024.18.6 - Invitation
This invitation titled, "Coronado Lodge NO. 25 of the Order of Knight of Pythias," is from February 20, 1941. The Order of Knights of Pythias is a great international fraternity, which was founded in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864, by Justus H. Rathbone. The first African American Pythian lodge was organized in Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 1880, by Dr. T.W. This is an invitation from the committe to Oscar B. Atkins cordially inviting him to...

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2024.18.7 - Postcard
This is a post card with the Congress Hotel on it which is in Pueblo Colorado. The mailing date stamp is 1922. It is in poor condition and is taped together.

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2024.18.8 - Book
This book titled, What You Should Know About Fortune Telling: Little Blue Book NO. 845, was written by Leo Markun and was published by the Haldeman-Julius Company in 1927. It provides readers with an introduction to fortune telling using a deck of cards and also numerology. It is in fair condition with a small rip in the binding.

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2024.18.9 - Book
This book titled, Baseball: Sports Library was published by Kellogg Company in 1934. It is an instruction manual on how to play baseball. It is in poor condition with several tears on the inside pages.

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2024.20.1 - Book
This year book titled, El Conquistador, is a 1967 Adams State College yearbook. It is in good condition.

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2024.21 - Book
This book titled, The New England Primer: Twentieth Century Reprint was likely published in the 1930's by Ginn & Company. It is a re-print of the oldest American Reader, orginally published between the years 1785 and 1790. On the back cover is written The Anthenaeum Press. Readers help teachers and pupils in the subject of reading. It is described as one of the greatest books ever published; it reflected in a marvelous way the spirit of the a...

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2024.22 - Book
This children's story book titled, Little People of the Air, was published in 1884 by D. Lathrop and Company. On the back is written, Love to Raplh Lilpop, Christmas 1928, From Bessie. It is in poor condition, the spine is not intact.

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2024.23 - Book
This children's book titled, Animal Stories was written by Georges Duplaix and published by Simon and Schuster in 1944. It is in poor condition with no spine.

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2024.24 - Book
This book titled, Jesse James' Dash for Fortune or The Raid on the Kansas City Fair was written by William Ward and published by The Arthur Westbrook Company in 1908. It is in poor condition with the front and back covers missing.

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2024.25 - Book
This comic book, titled Myra North Special Nurse and Foreign Spies, was based on the famous newspaper comic strip. It was written by Thompson Coll in the 1930's. On the back is written, based on the famous newspaper strip. It is in good condition.

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2024.26 - Manuscript
This manuscript was written by Carrol Joe Carter and published April 13, 1980 by Adams State College. It is about the many political battles waged by Wililam H. "Billy" Adams during his half-century of elective office, and few that were as hard fought or as personally satisfying as the defeat of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. It is in good condition.

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2024.27 - Magazine
This journal, titled, The Colorado School Journal was published in November 1924 by the Colorado Education Association. It discusses the fifthieth anniversary of the annual conventions held in Grand Junction, Pueblo and Denver. It is in fair condition with several small tears in the binding.

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2024.28 - Manuscript
This manuscript, titled, Little Bits Here and There of the History of RE--11J Schools was published by Ye Old Print Shop in 1981. It discusses a brief history of alamosa and a history of schools in Alamosa. This project was a joint effort between Title VII San Luis Valley History Enrishment Program and the Gifted and Talented Program.

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2024.29 - Book
This encyclopaedia titled, A Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclopaedia Britannica was written by James Baldwin, PH.D and published by the Werner Company in 1904. On the inside cover reads, "Presented to the La Veta Schools by Mr. and Mrs. Gapps, April 29th, 1913. It is in good condition.

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2024.3.1 - Map
The map was made by Nalaoma in 1996. It depicts Indiginous groups across north and central America, Caribbean. The author writes, "the map is pre-contact from across the eastern sea, at least, before contact seriously effected change." Nalaoma apologizes, stating that while they attempted to include as many tribes, sub-groups, and bands as they could, they could not incorporate all on one map. The map includes infographics that provide more detai...

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2024.30 - Book
This encyclopaedia titled, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: New Werner Edition: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature Volumn 22 was written by Profs. Spencer Baynes, LL.D., and W. Robertson Smith, Ll.D. and published by the Werner Company in 1904. On the inside cover it reads, Presented to the La Veta Schools by Mr. and Mrs. Gapps, April 29th, 1913. It is in good condition.

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2024.31 - Book
This encyclopaedia titled, New American Supplement to the New Werner Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Twentieth Century Edition Volume XXVIII was written by Willis Fletcher Johnson, A.M., L.H.D and published by the Werner Company in 1904. On the inside cover is written, Presented to the La Veta Schools by Mr. and Mrs. Gapps, April 29th, 1913. It is in good condition.

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2024.33 - Manuscript
This manuscript titled, Police Marshals and Chiefs, lists the police marshals and chiefs most likely of Alamosa, CO. from 09-07-1878 to 1948. Cities, towns and villages decide whether to appoint or elect a marshal, or have the board, council or city manager hire a chief of police as the top criminal law enforcement for their jurisdiction. Marshals are elected by the trustees to serve a fixed term, and chiefs of police can be fired at will by wh...

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