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Vann, Marvin J.

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• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

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• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Great Astronomers, by Robert S. Ball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, by George Biddell Airy (Gutenberg text)

• Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (London: J. Murray, 1876), by Mrs. John Herschel, contrib. by Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1919), by W. J. Humphreys (page images at Google)
• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
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• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text

• 1634: The Galileo Affair (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Moon Walk 1835: Was Neil Armstrong Really the First Man on the Moon? (1990 edition of Locke's "Great Astronomical Discoveries..."), by Richard Adams Locke, ed. by C. W. Tazewell (HTML at archive.org)

• Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (London: J. Murray, 1876), by Mrs. John Herschel, contrib. by Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Women Worth Emulating (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1877), by Clara Lucas Balfour
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, by George Biddell Airy (Gutenberg text)

• Watchers of the Sky, by Alfred Noyes (Gutenberg text)

• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text

• Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1919), by W. J. Humphreys (page images at Google)
• Professor Abbe and the Isobars: The Story of Cleveland Abbe, America's First Weatherman (New York: Vantage Press, c1955), by Truman Abbe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes (2 statewide volumes plus a third local volume that varies per set; third volume in this set dedicated to Washtenaw County; Dayton, OH: National Historical Association, ca. 1924-1926), ed. by George N. Fuller and Byron Alfred Finney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of a Half-Century in Michigan and the Lake Region, by Bela Hubbard (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Souvenir: National Grange in Michigan (1902), ed. by Ellsworth A. Holden (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Archaeological Atlas of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1931), by W. B. Hinsdale, illust. by Edward J. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan Biographies (2 volumes, 1924), by Michigan Historical Commission
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• General History of the State of Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler and Co., 1873), by Charles R. Tuttle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• Inaugural Proceedings at the Dedication of the New Capitol of Michigan, at the City of Lansing, on the First Day of January, 1879 (Lansing: W. S. George and Co., 1879), by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Capitol of Michigan, on the 2d Day of October, 1873, at the City of Lansing, by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners (page images at MOA)

• Among the Wolverines, by Augustus C. Schooley (page images at loc.gov)
• Journal of a Trip to Michigan in 1841 (1904), by Lansing B. Swan (page images at loc.gov)
• A Tour From the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818, by William Darby (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1863/4 (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Backwoods' Bride: A Romance of Squatter Life (London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (PDF at Emory)
• The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia (1921), by Earl H. Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wilby's Dan (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904), by William Wallace Cook, illust. by C. B. Falls (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1863/4 (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Michigan Family Field Trips: Fun Sites for Kids (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Ellyce Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detroit and the Pleasure Resorts of Northern Michigan, by Detroit Lansing and Northern Railroad Company (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Summer Holiday: A Brief Description of Some of the Most Popular Summer Resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the Routes By Which They Can be Reached, by Chicago and North Western Railway Company (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• General History of the State of Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler and Co., 1873), by Charles R. Tuttle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes (2 statewide volumes plus a third local volume that varies per set; third volume in this set dedicated to Washtenaw County; Dayton, OH: National Historical Association, ca. 1924-1926), ed. by George N. Fuller and Byron Alfred Finney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Old Mackinaw, or, The Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings, by W. P. Strickland (page images at MOA)
• Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Capitol of Michigan, on the 2d Day of October, 1873, at the City of Lansing, by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners (page images at MOA)
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)

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