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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786-1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Der Freischutz, loosely translated, The Marksman, is based on German folk legend, and many of its tunes were inspired by German folk music. Johann Friedrich Kind (1768-1843) was a German dramatist, most famous for writing the libretto for Der Freischütz.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian Romantic opera composer, best known for Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Aida -- an Ethiopian princess, who is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Radames, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824-1893) was an Italian journalist, poet, and novelist who wrote librettos for Verdi, among other composers, of which the best known are Aida and the revised version of La Forza del Destino.

Between 1938 and 1942, the Works Progress Administration produced San Francisco Theatre Research, a 20 volume set edited by Lawrence Estavan (1903-1988). This series is made up of volumes about famous thespians of San Francisco, genres of theater, ethnic theate, and on theater buildings.

The Golden Lotus was a monthly magazine "dedicated to those who seek The Way" (Buddhism). It began in 1944. Volume 8 covers 1951, with articles and reviews on such diverse topics as book reviews (H.P. Blavatsky), Sanskrit, The Dharma, The Kingdom of Water, The Mystery of Being, poetry, questions and answers, and much more.

The Golden Lotus was a monthly magazine "dedicated to those who seek The Way" (Buddhism). It began in 1944. Vol. 4, covering 1947, includes essays and reviews, covering such topics as The Dharma, The History of Godhood, The Mystery of Being, The Mythology of the RAce, plus poetry, essays, reviews, questions & answers, and much more. A fascinating look at Western interest in Buddhism in the 1940s.

A true story of Zane Grey's experiences capturing mountain lions alive, which makes ordinary hunting with guns seem, in contrast, about as exciting as a Sunday picnic. Everyone has heard of roping cattle and wild horses, but roping mountain lions on their home ground is another matter. Zane Grey, with four Western rangers, a Navajo Indian, and a pack of very lovable dogs (who are as much real individuals as their masters) set off on this adventure hunting with camera and lasso. Often funny, sometimes nearly tragic, always wildly exciting, the account of how they captured six of the tawny, fiery-eyed demons which infest the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and got them into camp alive and growling, will enthrall the great host of Zane Gray's readers, and everyone else who likes an usual yarn full of courage and thrilling action.Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular novels presenting an idealized image of the Old West. Grey is best known for his novel "Riders of the Purple Sage."

Alice Vaus was married to James Arthur Vaus, Jr., (1919-?) who was a wiretapper for the mob before he quit and turned to God with Billy Graham in 1949.

This 1878 History of Jo Daviess County Illinois contains "a history of the county -- its cities, town, etc.; a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest, history of Illinois, map of Jo Daviess County, Constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc."

Set during the turbulent period of the Fronde, a civil war in 17th-century France, The War of Women follows the lives of noblewomen caught in the political and social upheaval. Alexandre Dumas masterfully blends history, romance, and adventure, depicting the intrigues and rivalries among women vying for power and influence. With his signature flair for drama and historical detail, Dumas explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and love against the backdrop of one of France's most chaotic eras.

Albert Pulitzer (18??-1909), founder of the New York Morning Journal and younger brother of Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the true love story of Prince Eugene's marriage to Princess Augusta of Bavaria through their correspondence. Although ordered by Emperor Napoleon, this was a love-match.

Estelle Belle Hunter (1885-?) wrote manuals better pronunciation and effective speech for the Better Speech Institute of America, including this five-volume "practical self-teaching course" on personality development "comprising health, posture, dress, grooming, voice and speech, conversation, social and business etiquette, self-confidence, poise, living and working with others, acquiring background, improvement of mind and character, achieving success and happiness."

Estelle Belle Hunter (1885-?) wrote manuals better pronunciation and effective speech for the Better Speech Institute of America, including this five-volume "practical self-teaching course" on personality development "comprising health, posture, dress, grooming, voice and speech, conversation, social and business etiquette, self-confidence, poise, living and working with others, acquiring background, improvement of mind and character, achieving success and happiness."

Estelle Belle Hunter (1885-?) wrote manuals better pronunciation and effective speech for the Better Speech Institute of America, including this five-volume "practical self-teaching course" on personality development "comprising health, posture, dress, grooming, voice and speech, conversation, social and business etiquette, self-confidence, poise, living and working with others, acquiring background, improvement of mind and character, achieving success and happiness."

Estelle Belle Hunter (1885-?) wrote manuals better pronunciation and effective speech for the Better Speech Institute of America, including this five-volume "practical self-teaching course" on personality development "comprising health, posture, dress, grooming, voice and speech, conversation, social and business etiquette, self-confidence, poise, living and working with others, acquiring background, improvement of mind and character, achieving success and happiness."

Estelle Belle Hunter (1885-?) wrote manuals better pronunciation and effective speech for the Better Speech Institute of America, including this five-volume "practical self-teaching course" on personality development "comprising health, posture, dress, grooming, voice and speech, conversation, social and business etiquette, self-confidence, poise, living and working with others, acquiring background, improvement of mind and character, achieving success and happiness."

Heinrich F. E. Schmid (1811-1885) was a professor of theology at Universitat Erlangen in Nuremburg, Germany. Joseph Seiss called The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church "altogether one of the most ready helps and one of the most successful attempts" to gather "a library of our old dogmaticians." This English translation was produced in 1875.

Boy meets girl -- over a roulette table in a high class joint. The boy is Chet Phelps, hardboiled, fast-thinking reporter. The girl is Gail Dillon, a pin-up blonde with boudoir eyes. She's the percussion cap that sets off a charge of dynamite, and the resulting emotional explosion shatters hearts, lives and headlines. So, before the smoke is out of his eyes, Chet finds himself involved in murder up to and over his ears -- and in an unbelievable world where murder-for-breakfast-guys and midnight-supper-club gals send him guilt-edged invitations to the electric chair!

William George "Gilbert" Patten (1866-1945) is best known, under his pen name Burt L. Standish, for the Frank Merriwell stories. Frank was model for all later American juvenile sports fiction; he excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. Frank Merriwell's Chums is the second in the series.

Noel Sainsbury, author of the Billy Smith Flying Ace and Billy Bolton aviation series, also wrote the four-book Dorothy Dixon Air Mystery Series under the pseudonym, Dorothy Wayne. Dorothy Dixon and the Mystery Plane is the second book in the series.

A hobby using crystal radio sets leads Tom Pauling and his friends into a world of danger and espionage. First of the Radio Detectives series. (Originally published in 1922.)

These 1938 and 1940 4-H sewing guides were produced by the Cooperative Extension Work of Ohio State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and prepared by Edna M. Callahan and Edith Berry, Extension Specialists in Clothing, the Ohio State University.