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1. This book is a collection of poems by various authors. The subjects covered are nature, morning and evening, life and duty, the mystery of life, inward strife, prayer and aspiration, trust and peace, submission, death and immortality, and miscellaneous. There are 223 pages. In the front of the book, handwritten, it says "Helen Vickery from C.B.C. April, 25th 1909." - book

   Tileston, Mary W.

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2. Book #1 How Early American Tools were conceived and used by the early settlers. Book #2 Short stories about Early American Trades, Coloring Book Book #3 Short stories about Early American Living. Book #4 Short Stories about American Barns and Covered Bridges. - book

   Eric Slone, Peter F. Coopeland,

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3. Articles cover "not only gardens but people, history and what might be called a philosophy of the enjoyment of growing plants, trees and flowers." Sections titles: Garden Notes, Garden Travels, Garden History, Garden People, Garden Literature, and Gardens at the Hilltop" - book

   Harrower, Harriet

   Record Type: Library

   
4. A gutsy, gruesome, meticulously research look at the day-to-day existence of a single Federal regiment's exploits in the final year of the Civil War. Diaries and letters of the soldiers are extensively quoted. Included are maps, illustrations, rosters, and appendixes. - book

   Wilkinson, Warren

   Record Type: Library

   
5. "The Blue Books cover the entire United States and Southern Canada... They tell you where to go and how to get there, giving complete maps of every motor road, running directions at every fork and turn, with milages. All points of local or historical interest, state motor laws, hotel and garage accomodations, ferry and steamship schedules and rates. A veritable motorist's' encyclopedia." This Volume Two contains New England, Eastern Canada and Maritime Provinces. - book

   Trowbridge, James R.

   Record Type: Library

   
6. Descendants of Robert Ware of Dedham, Mass., including Robert Ware born in Fitchburg, 1733.Inserted in the book is a letter from Emma f. Ware concerning the Fitchburg Robert, an booklet from N. H. G. R., January, 1887 titled Descendants of Robert Ware and a booklet of corrections. - book

   Ware, Emma Forbes

   Record Type: Library

   
7. Stories supporting obligations of childrento their parents: " Filial Duty, recommended and enforced, by a variety of instructive and entertaining stories of children who have been remarkable for affection to their parents, also some striking instances of children who have behaved in undutiful and unnatural manner to their parents. The whole founded on historical facts." - book

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8. Sketches of the lives of 6 generations of Lamonts : Thomas William Lamont (132-1853), Reverent Thomas Lamont (1832-1853), Thomas W. Lamont (1870-1948), Thomas Stilwell Lamont (1899-19670, Thomas Stilwell lamont II (1924-19450, and Thomas Stillwell II (1961- ). Also Lamont family trees from roots in Ireland and England - book

   Lamont, Corliss

   Record Type: Library

   
9. Family Sketches and genealogy of the Tainter and Strong families. Includes ancestors of the Fitchburg Branch of the Tainter Family by direct descent. Contained in a black binder, handwritten. Includes capture by Indians and family history at Battle of the Great Swamp, King Phillip's War. Also Leslie Dean Tainter, served in World War I and worked at Simonds Saw and Steel. - book

   Tainter, Leslie

   Record Type: Library

   
10. Covers arithmetic work of the first years including fundamental processes, simple measures, and easy fractions. It utilizes the unorganized arithmetic knowledge which a child knows upon entering school and proceeds by easy and carefully graded stages. Presents addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division ; exercises to teach thrift, order and neatness; and an abundance of problems. - book

    Anderson, Robert F.

    Record Type: Library

    
11. A book of poetry by Henry A. Goodrich "taken from verses written in the leisure moments of a business life covering a period of nearly fifty years. Many of these poems make mention of various places around Fitchburg. i.e. "The Closing of Laurel Street" and "Sunset Over Rollstone". - book

    Goodrich, Henry A.

    Record Type: Library

    
12. Book - The Municipal Year Book 1969- "The authoritative resume of activities and statistical data of American cities" It is a reference of information on current activities and practices of cities throughout the United States. It includes individual city programs, councils of government, metropolitan areas, systems analysis, leisure time activities, and law courts. - book

    The International City Management Association

    Record Type: Library

    
13. This story is adapted from a speech given by Amasa Walker when he was much older and could by a new coat at a clothing store. It tells about the creation of a surtout or very fancy coat that he received when he was 12 years old. It begins with Amasa's trip on horseback to get wool from a neighbor who raised sheep and follows the process to completion. - book

    Emily Chetkowski

    Record Type: Library

    
14. 37 chapters having to do withtowns/cities in northeastern MA. Other subject manner covers camp life at Kalorama, 1862 camp life; battles of Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg; and prison camp life at Andersonville; and war stories. Last chapter is a roster. - book

    Roe, Alfred Seelye/Nutt,Charles

    Record Type: Library

    
15. A gutsy, gruesome, meticulously research look at the day-to-day existence of a single Federal regiment's exploits in the final year of the Civil War. Diaries and letters of the soldiers are extensively quoted. Included are maps, illustrations, rosters, and appendixes. - book

    Wilkinson, Warren

    Record Type: Library

    
16. Story of the Spitfire, the most famous aircraft to serve in the Royal Air Force. It served in more than thirty air forces on six continents. More than a thousand were delivered to the Soviet Air Force and a similar number to the U.S. Army Air Force. Book consists of black and white photos and history. - book

    Price, Alfred

    Record Type: Library

    
17. Includes genealogy of: Raymoure, Raymor, Raymore, French, Watson, Buckley, Cox, Marshalek, Allen, Donovan, Leitch, Cowles, Lundberg, Thompson, Given, Ackerman, Lauber, Wilkes, and other collateral surnames - book

    Raymoure, Dorothy

    Record Type: Library

    
18. Food is a Common Bond is the title of the introduction to this compilation of ethnic recipes. Foods from Armenia, Chinese, English, Finnish, French Canadian, French Parisian, Mother Cecile's Candies, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Old Yankee, Scottish, Swedish, Miscellaneous, and Potpourri are the section titles. - book

    Fitchburg Historical Society (compiler)

    Record Type: Library

    
19. A collection of documents and essays comparing the North and South, Sectional politics in the 1850's, the secession crisis, the Generals, the soldiers, Abraham Lincoln as Political and Military Leader, The Northern home front, the Southern home front, women in wartime, emancipation, Congress's terms for the defeated South, political and economic change in the Reconstruction South,Southern Republicans and the problems of Reconstruction, The Northern retreat from Reconstruction, and the impact and significance of the sectional conflict. - book

    Perman, Michael, Editor

    Record Type: Library

    
20. Private Lyons Wakeman was not what he seemed to be. He was really a she, A chronicle of the 54th Massachusetts regiment by Corporal James Henry Gooding giving a picture of the activities and thoughts of a black regiment by one of its enlisted men. It tells of the progress from training camp through its first campaign in Georgia, the struggle for Fort Wagner in 1863. - book

    Gooding, Corporal James Henry

    Record Type: Library