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1865 Iowa State Gazetteer

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1941 Bonaparte Directory

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1941 Mt. Sterling Directory

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1954 Birmingham Phone Directory

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1954 Stockport Phone Directory

1961 Bonaparte Phone Directory

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J.A. Keck Journal & Papers

Story of the Emigrant Train

Dickson Pottery of Vernon

VBCo Newspaper Abstracts

VBCo Newspaper History 1878

Van Buren Democrat - 19 Jan 1870

1850 Mechanicsburg Diary

1871 Pioneer Ass'n Old Settlers Meeting

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