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Title: 2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream)
Date: 1894
Description: 2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) is part of the Utopia Collection. The novel specifically belongs to the subgenre of feminist utopias; the story reverses traditional gender roles and inserts the protagonist, Lord Ammonite, into a society of "dominant women and submissive men." --- From "The Bookseller and Newsman, Volume 11" (1894): "2894" or THE FOSSIL MAN, by Walter Browne; G. W. Dillingham publishers, New York; paper, 50cts. 12mo. 298 pages. The adventures that befall this dreamer, when, as a fossil man he is brought to life in the Utopia of A. D. 2894; form most amusing reading. Mr. Browne seems to have absorbed the imaginative styles of Rider Haggard and Jules Verne. He seriously accounts for his many marvels with a plausibility which is almost convincing; and at the same time his lines bristle with a sly undercurrent of wit, which is worthy of "Pinafore" Gilbert. A light love story gives a zest to the book; but the ludicrous incidents arising from the loss of the fossil's right hand; which is broken off before his revivificiation; and the many escapades of the man to-day, forms the bulk of the book. --- This novel is a particularly rare work of the English language, and this is currently the only known copy held in a publicly accessible institution. The book was digitized in 2018 as part of an effort to increase accessibility and preserve the work. Please direct all inquires regarding this and other rare books in the Saint Louis Mercantile Library collection to the library's Reference Services: http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/research/research-request.html

Title: Agreement re: Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line R.R. Co.
Date: 1897, 1897

Title: Image 31: October 1892
Date: 1892-10
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Illinois & Mississippi Canal. Commencement of work on her. Flick’s section. Middle of 1st mile looking east. F.S. Hunter – Engr. in charge Taken in Oct. 1892

Title: Image 30: September 1892
Date: 1892-09
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal U.S. Govt camps on Carr’s Island. Quarters for men during construction of abutments and embankments. September 1892

Title: Image 25: October 7, 1893
Date: 1893-10-07
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Loading cars with wheel scrapers. 4th & 5th mile, October 7 1893

Title: Image 28: November 1892
Date: 1892-11
Description: Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 2nd mile section Constructing the large Erub. on North side of Silver Lake. J. S. Leyuch – contractor F.S. H. Engr. in charge Taken Nov. 1892

Title: Immense Tow of Coalboats
Date: 1898-03-15
Description: On Tuesday, March 15, 1898, the largest single shipment of coal ever moved on the Western Rivers was taken out of the harbor of Pittsburgh, Pa., by the towboat Joseph B. Williams, owned by C. Jutte and Co. of that place.

Title: Annual report of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company
Description: Report year ends June 30. Reorganized and consolidated with the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, 1899. New series of reports begin 1900. Called Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Co.

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railway Journal December 1898
Date: 1898-12

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal October 1897
Date: 1897-10

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal November 1897
Date: 1897-11

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal December 1897
Date: 1897-12

Title: American Engineer Car Builder and Railroad Journal January 1898
Date: 1898-01

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal November 1899
Date: 1899-11

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal October 1899
Date: 1899-10

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal December 1899
Date: 1899-12

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal July 1899
Date: 1899-07

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal September 1899
Date: 1899-09

Title: American Engineer and Railroad Journal August 1899
Date: 1899-08

Title: Tell Mother Not to Worry
Date: 1899, 1899
Description: Voice and piano score for "Tell Mother Not To Worry" by Louis Myll.

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