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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 2, 2011 2:03:55 GMT -8
not like I expect anyone to ever find this book, but as I was scanning today I came across a bit of a gold mine for fanfic
"Dangerous Trades" edited by Thomas Oliver. 1902. London: J.Murray (The historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts)
Darn thing's almost 1,000 pgs so I didn't have time to read it, but I got to skim it... Try putting Jim or Artie in a mine (though it's been done) or smelting metal and getting burns or other common trade mishaps...
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Post by Artiespet on Jun 2, 2011 8:44:32 GMT -8
Dang sounds like a great book! But I'm sure its out of print lol
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conansf
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Post by conansf on Jun 2, 2011 12:58:25 GMT -8
The Worst Jobs in History is a television series hosted by Tony Robinson, an english actor and commentator. It is available on DVD. But those of you in the USA may have to order it in, as it is a UK production. Tony Robinson tries his hand at each of the jobs, ultimately nominating which one he thought was the worst in each programme. He covers the worst jobs from the Dark Ages right up to Victorian times, which is the era we would be interested in. There is a book which accompanies the series. Robinson, Tony (2004). The Worst Jobs in History. Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 0-75221-533-7, ISBN 978-0752215334. Robinson, Tony (2005). The Worst Children's Jobs in History. Macmillan Children's Books. ISBN 1-40505-519-7, ISBN 978-1405055192.
First series: This was broadcast in 2004 and concentrated on a different historical period per programme: Roman and Anglo-Saxon; Medieval; Tudor; Stuarts; Georgian and Victorian. Some of the more repulsive or dangerous jobs included fuller, chimney sweep, executioner, leech collector, Plague burier, rat-catcher, leather tanner, gong farmer and sin-eater. There was a one off special called The Worst Christmas Jobs in History in December 2005.
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 3, 2011 0:36:16 GMT -8
Well DUH it's out of print Pet! That's why you've got to check around your local university/college/local library :-P give it a year or two and it will be available online if any of those libraries purchases the online collection from Cengage/Gale publishers oh and yes conansf, there were pictures if chimney sweep outfits and which ones were the healthiest a lot on mining and metal-working didn't get to see much else though as the scanner is too fast!
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Paradox Eyes
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Post by Paradox Eyes on Jun 3, 2011 2:09:04 GMT -8
Awesome find Red! I searched for it and it IS available for online reading. I found it at openlibrary.org. I spent some time perusing it this morning. It covers EVERYTHING, doesn't it!? Right down to the obscure profession of "Lable Licking". (The guinea pigs got tuberculosis from the goo on the stamps.) ICK! Seriously though, it covers every imaginable profession and it's dangers and health risks. Pretty interesting!
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 3, 2011 5:47:29 GMT -8
Hey that's AWESOME that you found it PE!!! (they why the blazes am I re-scanning it?! whatever ) but yeah it looked pretty thorough! since you found it, maybe you can write another fic :-) and since it's available online, maybe Pet can use it... and Silver... and QHart... ;D let's have some more fics!!
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 3, 2011 9:07:09 GMT -8
Next week I will be scanning The Confederate States of America 1861-1865 A Financial and Industrial History of the South During the Civil Warby John Christopher Schwab, A.M., PH.D. 1901 NY: Charles Scribner's Sons London: Edward Arnold Properly referenced until the next MLA manual comes out ( : Schwab, J.C. The Confederate States of America 1861-1865. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
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Silver
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Post by Silver on Jun 3, 2011 11:00:49 GMT -8
Hey that's AWESOME that you found it PE!!! (they why the blazes am I re-scanning it?! whatever ) but yeah it looked pretty thorough! since you found it, maybe you can write another fic :-) and since it's available online, maybe Pet can use it... and Silver... and QHart... ;D let's have some more fics!! Sounds like a resource not to be missed! Hmm, that one idea has been running around the back of my noggin for a while and I could use... COME ON, I'VE ALREADY GOT TOO MANY STORIES GOING NOW!
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Paradox Eyes
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"Hmmmm......Which guns and gadgets today??
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Post by Paradox Eyes on Jun 5, 2011 5:17:12 GMT -8
Hey that's AWESOME that you found it PE!!! (they why the blazes am I re-scanning it?! whatever ) but yeah it looked pretty thorough! since you found it, maybe you can write another fic :-) and since it's available online, maybe Pet can use it... and Silver... and QHart... ;D let's have some more fics!! Actually I have at least 5 stories in process (maybe more : None of them are moving along very quickly (See life quote: "Sometimes the Dragon Wins" ) But I keep trying.... The book will come in handy in some areas I'm sure!
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Post by Artiespet on Jun 5, 2011 10:19:02 GMT -8
Hey that's AWESOME that you found it PE!!! (they why the blazes am I re-scanning it?! whatever ) but yeah it looked pretty thorough! since you found it, maybe you can write another fic :-) and since it's available online, maybe Pet can use it... and Silver... and QHart... ;D let's have some more fics!! Sounds like a resource not to be missed! Hmm, that one idea has been running around the back of my noggin for a while and I could use... COME ON, I'VE ALREADY GOT TOO MANY STORIES GOING NOW! So get busy and WRITE some of them! Rumor has it there are some rather greedy gus's around this joint
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 7, 2011 6:49:12 GMT -8
Resource of the day:
Industrial Evolution of the United States by Carroll D Wright, LL.D. 1902. New York Charles Scribner's Sons
Chapter XII is dedicated to the Civil War, Chapter XIII is the Development of Industries 1860-1890
lots of pics & maps
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 7, 2011 8:39:35 GMT -8
And another... The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company A Romance of Millions by James Howard Bridge. 1903 New York The Aldine Book Company history ranges from the beginning in 1853 to 1899 Sounds like there was a ton of struggle getting this company on its feet
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 8, 2011 6:09:19 GMT -8
Not very exciting but since keeping baddies from messing with the economy is part of the guys' job...
Financial History of the United States Davis Rich Dewey PhD 1907 New York Longmans, Green and Co.
Chapter on Civil War; Legal Teders, Loans, Taxation & Banking
Greenbacks and Resumption including Constitutionality of Legal-Tender Notes, Issues in Times of Peace, Sale of Gold, Panic of 1873, Antagonism to the National Banking System, Demonetization of Silver, coinage
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Apple
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Post by Apple on Jun 11, 2011 10:51:20 GMT -8
Awesome find Red! I searched for it and it IS available for online reading. I found it at openlibrary.org. I spent some time perusing it this morning. It covers EVERYTHING, doesn't it!? Right down to the obscure profession of "Lable Licking". (The guinea pigs got tuberculosis from the goo on the stamps.) ICK! Seriously though, it covers every imaginable profession and it's dangers and health risks. Pretty interesting! PE thanks for that link to open library! I had never searched online for a library since I work in one, and it's not anything we discuss here at work much because we're so busy being HERE! LOL! I am excited to take a look at that site
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 13, 2011 1:17:54 GMT -8
I agree Apple I have only looked at online databases through whichever school's I was attending library had access to. Hopefully today I will finally be settled down at the dorms for the duration of the project that I will have some time to look at this online library myself
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 13, 2011 5:51:10 GMT -8
Toda's resource: A Political History of Slavery in two volumes by William Henry Smith 1903 New York The Knickerbocker Press (volume 2) (where do they get the names of these press companies?! ) volume 2 covers Lincoln through the Civil War through Grant through the failure of Reconstruction
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Post by California gal on Jun 13, 2011 6:02:50 GMT -8
knickerbocker "descendant of Du. settler of New York," 1831, from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the name under which Washington Irving published his popular "History of New York" (1809). The pen-name was borrowed from Irving's friend Herman Knickerbocker, and lit. means "toy marble-baker." **** Where do you think the NY Knicks (basketball) got their name? I think the Yankees (baseball) may have originally been named the Knickerbockers. Some baseball team from the area was. Undoubtedly this publisher was/is located in NY. ;D
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 14, 2011 2:47:24 GMT -8
I'm not sure whether to say smart-arse to CalGal or to blush where my mind takes me Well Pet did an excellent job with the Whiskey Ring Scandal but would anyone like to take up "The True Story of Black Friday?" Try looking up chapter 20 in Fifty Years in Wall Street by Henry Clews, L.L.D. 1908 Irving Publishing Company New York
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Post by Artiespet on Jun 15, 2011 8:42:15 GMT -8
I'm not sure whether to say smart-arse to CalGal or to blush where my mind takes me Well Pet did an excellent job with the Whiskey Ring Scandal but would anyone like to take up "The True Story of Black Friday?" Try looking up chapter 20 in Fifty Years in Wall Street by Henry Clews, L.L.D. 1908 Irving Publishing Company New York Go with smart arse
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 21, 2011 1:03:45 GMT -8
I've just hit the section on transportation and railways, I wish Orrin could see this! Two books of note: The Story of Rapid Transit by Beckles Willson 1903 New York D Appleton and Company and The Romance of Modern Locomotion by Archibald Williams London 1904 C Arthur Pearson, Ltd "Containing Interesting Descriptions (in Non-Technical Language) of the Rise and Development of the Railroad Systems in all Parts of the World" also by the same author The Romance of Modern Invention "This volume deals in a popular way all the latest inventions, such as Air-ships, Mono-Rail, Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, etc
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Post by California gal on Jun 21, 2011 9:37:05 GMT -8
Red - I just downloaded a brand new app (released yesterday) for my iPad called the "British Library 19th Century Collection." It contains books, books, books and more books published in the 1800s, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, etc. What a bonanza (especially for researchers and students).
I saw one book in the collection called "The History of Wyoming to 1858," which could be interesting--and somewhat helpful.
What I was wondering was if this was the type of eventual use your scans will be put to?
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Post by MissRedhead on Jun 21, 2011 10:10:27 GMT -8
depends on the company that we are scanning for... right now I'm scanning a collection of economic lit for Cengage/Gale publishers. They typically sell these collections of scanned books to libraries and I believe the library that is having the books scanned gets a cut of the profit or something aside from the free digitization of their books. I believe we are going to be working with Ebsco in NYC in a week or so...
was the app free Calgal?? Is it something I can download to my (dell) laptop??
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Post by California gal on Jun 21, 2011 11:50:00 GMT -8
It was free, but I don't know if it's available for a laptop or not. Do you have a site to search for apps?
I know my niece has iPad2 and she recently bought a new Mac laptop that she was able to download a couple of the same apps for both. I'm not sure where she went for the laptop app.
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Post by MissRedhead on Aug 18, 2011 12:37:27 GMT -8
Here's another lovely little resource: The Railways of America: Their Construction, Development, Management and Appliancesby various writers with an introduction by Thomas M. Cooley Published 1890 London by John Murray, Albemarle Street over 200 illustrations lol... there was an uncut page at the very end (in the index) and I dragged the conservationist up to cut the page because I wanted to read the book tonight (usually I wait until I have several books with uncut pages before I drag the poor ladies up to the 5th floor to cut the uncut pages)
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