Jacquet, Illinois.

Contents: I wrote this for the kid (11:53) -- Saph (2:42) -- Mambocito mio (2:51) -- The kid and the brute (8:25) -- September song (4:51) -- Jacquet's dilemma (3:09) -- Little Jeff (2:40) -- Jacquet jumps (1:48) -- Blue nocturne (3:06) -- On your toes 93:15) -- R.U. one (2:53) -- JATAP conga (2:54) -- It's the talk of the town (3:27) -- Heads (3:19) -- On your toes (3:17).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAC

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: "The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LIN

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Bad Company (Musical group)

Contents: Can't get enough (4:10) -- Rock steady (3:46) -- Ready for love (5:00) -- Don't let me down (4:18) -- Bad company (4:50) -- The way I choose (5:05) -- Movin' on (3:20) -- Seagull (4:06).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Swan Song 1994

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Drabelle, Dennis.

Summary: The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0979 DRA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport Drabelle

Murray, Julie

Summary: Presents basic information about Illinois, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

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Gregory, Josh

Summary: "This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Illinois."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018

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Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: The President's writings trace his involvement in Illinois politics, his opposition to slavery, and his political debates with Stephen Douglas

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 LIN

Laws, Bill.

Summary: "Filled with unusual and unexpected stories and facts, this illustrated survey of the most important historical and contemporary railway lines around the world will captivate a wide audience, from the curious browser to researching students. The book organizes the railroads chronologically, considering each according to its greatest impact on social, commercial, political, engineering, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2013

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Chestnut Brass Company (Musical group)

Contents: The president's march (Hail, Columbia) 1:37. -- The hunters of Kentucky 1:46. -- King Andrew 1:58. -- President Martin Van Buren's grand march 1:58. -- The American boy 3:00. -- General Harrison's log cabin march and quick step 1:33. -- Tippecanoe and Tyler too 1:43. -- President Harrison's Funeral March (Dirge) 3:16. -- John Tyler's lamentation 3:09. -- President James K. Polk's grand March...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1996

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Schafer, Mike.

Summary: "This illustrated history examines the evolution of the mighty "Pennsy" from a disparate group of early horse-car lines into a twentieth-century transportation giant sprawling across 10,000 route miles in 13 of the nation's most populous states."--Dust jacket. "This hardcover edition of the original soft cover volume consists of all new photography from numerous collections. ... We introduce...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2009

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Lincoln, Abraham

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1942

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Pascal, Janet B.

Summary: Highlights the life and achievements of the sixteenth president of the United States, discussing his childhood years, his rise through politics, and the major decisions he made as president during the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Thaggert, Miriam

Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station 1981

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 632.5 WEE

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009

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Railroad Earth (Musical group)

Contents: Storms -- Bread and water -- Mourning flies -- Long way to go -- The good life -- In the basement -- Water fountain quicksand -- Goat -- Said what you mean -- Way of the buffalo -- 'Neath the stars.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill 2004

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Jacquet, Illinois.

Contents: When my dreamboat comes home -- Desert winds -- Star eyes -- Blues for the early bird -- Lester leaps in -- You're my thrill -- Canadian sunset.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Music Group 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAC

Schwantes, Carlos A.

Summary: "The West the Railroads Made" recounts the stories of visionaries such as Henry Harmon Spalding, Samuel Parker, and Asa Whitney, who imagined the railroad as a new Northwest Passage, an iron road through the West to the Orient. As the idea of a Pacific Railroad grew in the 1840s and 1850s, many Americans imagined the West as a fertile garden or a treasure chest of priceless minerals. Railroads...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library 2008

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