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Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc

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Publication Date

1926 - 1929
(years)

Genre

  • Bildungsromans (20) + -
  • Sea stories (5) + -

Series

  • Fame and fortune weekly (20) + -

Author

  • Garne, Gaston (20) + -
  • Self-made man, 1853-1915 (20) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (3) + -
  • Fenton, Ralph, Colonel (2) + -
  • Braddon, Paul (1) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (1) + -

Topic

  • Young businesspeople (10) + -
  • Stockbrokers (7) + -
  • Treasure troves (6) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (3) + -
  • Pirates (2) + -
  • Sales personnel (2) + -
  • Castaways (1) + -
  • Factories (1) + -
  • Gold (1) + -
  • Government securities (1) + -
  • Lumbermen (1) + -
  • Mechanics (1) + -
  • Orphans (1) + -
  • Petroleum (1) + -
  • Shipwrecks (1) + -
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Place

  • Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) (7) + -
  • Africa (1) + -
  • California (1) + -
  • Illinois (1) + -
  • Maine (1) + -
  • Mexico (1) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • New York (State) (1) + -
  • Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) (1) + -
  • Pennsylvania (1) + -
  • Peru (1) + -
  • Portland (Me.) (1) + -
  • South Pacific Ocean (1) + -
  • Yanai-shi (Japan) (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (20) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (18) + -

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Adrift in the city, or, The fate of a waif / by a Self-made man
A pirate's treasure, or, The secret of the three wrecks
$50,000 from a nickel, or, The boy who was lucky in stocks
A favorite of fate, or, After the head hunter's treasure
Back-Number Bixby, or, The boy who was up to the minute
A barrel of coin, or, The luck of a boy trader
A "live" boy, or, Quick to get the dollars
Adrift on the Orinoco, or, The treasure of the desert
Benson's new boy, or, Whooping up the Wall Street market
A big contract, or, The poor boy who won
Adrift in the sea, or, The treasure of Lone Reef
A boy from the South, or, Cleaning out a Wall Street crowd
A boy of the curb, or, The secret of a treasury note
A runaway boy, or, The buried treasure of the Incas
A castaway's fortune, or, The hunt for a pirate's gold
A young lumber king, or, The boy who worked his way up
A stroke of luck, or, The boy who made money in oil
Banker Barry's boy, or, Gathering the dollars in Wall Street
A young mechanic, or, Rising to fame and fortune
A boy with grit, or, The young salesman who made his mark

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