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Letter from John L. Stewart, Field Agent, United States Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration to Carson Estate Company, May 20, 1942
No full textRefers to check payment for land "taken over" by William J. Cammack. Handwritten notes by Carson Estate Company regarding pending lease and payment deposits
Carson Crosses Canada by L. Bailey
No full textBailey, Linda. Carson Crosses Canada. Illustrated by Kass Reich. Tundra Books of Random House Canada, 2017.In this delightful picture book, Linda Bailey and Kass Reich combine their talents to produce an imaginary cross-Canada tour for little listeners and beginning readers. The work is age appropriate. The maps Reich creates on the front and back end papers present a simplified vision of our coastlines, territories and provinces. Throughout the pages, line drawings and colourful illustrations evoke our mountains, forests, plains and lakes. We see Canada from the highway, the campsite, the lakeshore and seacoast. Urban references are few. The journey starts in Tofino; it ends on an unnamed Newfoundland shore. En route, there is one nod to Winnipeg where the travelers have a cooling romp in the lake of the same name, and another to Quebec City where they feast on a tortière. For the most part, however, the densely populated cities, our usual obsession, are omitted. What the author and illustrator do offer is a heartwarming, humorous and engaging story.Annie Magruder, the central character, journeys eastward to help her ailing sister, Elsie, who lives on the Atlantic coast. Promising Carson, her little dog, a “surprise” when they reach their destination, Annie packs the essentials: camping equipment, baloney sandwiches, dog food, and “Squeaky Chicken” (Squeaky Chicken is the dog’s toy; each time he chews it he gets “a brand new noise”). Carson is both lovable and credible. On the dry plains of Saskatchewan he eats a grasshopper “for dessert.” In the scorching heat of southern Manitoba he droops. In Niagara Falls where Annie buys a souvenir he “leaves a little souvenir of his own,” and when the tide goes out in the Bay of Fundy, he rolls all over the seabed, the “best mud ever.” Annie’s promised “surprise” for Carson is also credible. (No disclosure, here. Read the book.)Kass Reich’s illustrations are a perfect match for Bailey’s text. That the work concentrates on storyline is a gift to the intended audience. That its inherent geography lesson is subtle and evocative (as opposed to blatant and didactic) is totally refreshing. This is a must for Canadian home, school, and public libraries.Reviewer: Leslie AitkenHighly recommended 4 out of 4 starsLeslie Aitken’s long career in librarianship involved selection of children’s literature for school, public, special, and university collections. She is a former Curriculum Librarian at the University of Alberta.</jats:p
Letter from [John Victor Carson], Dominguez Estate Company to Mr. L. C. Burr, November 8, 1937
No full textRefers to charges for repairing a property and rental payments
Letter from [John Victor Carson], Dominguez Estate Company to Mr. K. L. Schaap, December 21, 1939
No full textRequest for payment
Letter from [John Victor Carson], Dominguez Estate Company to Mr. K. L. Schaap, June 2,1 1939
No full textResponse to a request for oat hay
Letter from [John Victor Carson], Dominguez Estate Company to MR. John L. Wyatt, June 20, 1938
No full textReferring Mr. Wyatt to Mr. H.H. Jarrett concerning land sales
Letter from The Dominguez Estate Company to Mr. Marcus L. Roberts, August 12, 1942
No full textFollowing up on telephone conversation with John Victor Carson, confirming that Mr. Roberts will arrange for payment of water bill
Nineteenth Century Black and White US Statures: The Primary Sources of Vitamin D and their Relationship with Height
Get PDFVitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and whites by the primary sources of vitamin D production: time exposed to solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be associated with taller black and white statures, and a considerable share of the stature differential by socioeconomic status was related to insolation.socioeconomic status, vitamin D, insolation, 19th century US statures
Excavations at the Gilligan's Island shelters (5FN1592), Fort Carson Military Reservation (FCMR), Fremont County, Colorado
Get PDFDepartment Head: Kathleen A. Galvin.2008 Summer.Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-399).This thesis examines the surface and subsurface archaeological work undertaken in 2002 at the Gilligan's Island site (5FN1592), located at the base of the Rocky Mountains on the Fort Carson Military Reservation, eastern Fremont County, Colorado. Permission was granted by Fort Carson to conduct an excavation at this site in order to determine its potential to produce significant subsurface occupational remains. Excavations focused on two connecting rock shelters at the base of a prominent cliff face. Four interconnecting grid units were positioned in a trench-like fashion through the central midline of each shelter proper. Deposition of excavated units ranges up to 1.3 meters in depth. These trenches exposed deeply stratified prehistoric materials including multiple intact features. The radiocarbon data (based on conventional uncalibrated dates) identified three prehistoric cultural components: Middle Archaic period (ca. 4240-3010 B.P.), Late Archaic period (ca. 2230-1880 B.P.), and Developmental period (ca. 1390- 1070 B.P.). A historic component is also evident and is associated with probable looting activities in the shelters.Volume I. Primary report -- Volume II. Database appendixes (zip file)
Geography, Insolation, and Institutional Change in 19th Century African-American andWhite Stature in Southern States
Get PDFThe use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and institutional change. Although modern blacks and whites reach similar terminal statures when brought to maturity under similar biological conditions, 19thcentury African-American statures in Southern states were consistently shorter than whites, indicating a uniquely 19th century phenomenon may have influenced black stature growth. It is geography and direct sunlight (insolation) that present a striking attribute of 19th century black and white statures, and greater insolation is documented here to be associated with taller black and white statures.nineteenth century Southern black and white statures, insolation, vitamin D
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