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    Bridge-building : being the author\u27s original work, published in 1847, with an appendix containing corrections, additions & explanations suggested by subsequent experience, to which is annexed an original article on the doctrine of central forces / by S.

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    Consists of the author\u27s "A work on bridge-building: consisting of two essays, the one elementary and general, the other giving original plans and practical details for iron and wooden bridges" Utica, N.Y. : H.H. Curtis, 1847, plus supplementary text, Notes in correction and explanation of the original text, and Central forces. Issued on a subscription basis by the author. Cf. initial p. iii. Issued on a subscription basis by the author. Includes errata list. Initial sequence i-iv in facsimile

    William E. Hoy, letter to Mr. Ralph Elliot Lin Weber, July 8, 1943, with envelope and newspaper articles

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    This letter was sent from William E. Hoy to Mr. Ralph Elliot Lin Weber and is dated July 8, 1943. The letter recounts information about the only baseball game where Hoy, a deaf athlete, was at-bat against Taylor, also a deaf athlete. Mentioned in the letter is a typewritten play by play of the same game, copied from the Enquirer of May 17, 1902. Also included is an envelope and newspaper articles. The envelope, from International League Information, is addressed to Ralph E Lin Weber and has handwritten lists of players of N.Y. and Cincinnati. The newspaper articles are from the Dayton Daily News and the Cincinnati Enquirer and feature pictures of William E. Hoy, the author of the letter

    Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y.

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    Trade card advertising the Invalids' Hotel on Prospect Ave. in Buffalo, N.Y. The private hospital and health resort was opened in 1878 by the eclectic physician Ray Vaughn Pierce (1840-1914), manufacturer of proprietary medicines and author of the long-published People's Common Sense Medical Adviser. The Invalids' Hotel burned to the ground on February 16, 1881 and was replaced by the Invalids' Hotel & Surgical Institute on Main Street in Buffalo. This card was issued before completion of the Invalids' Hotel, i.e., circa 1877
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