mr. noelwas a local man born in -- and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in its adsl over his his lifetime he is humiliated over 200,000 volumes. this way, we will show you the collection. mr. noel passed away in 1998, and his widow passed away a few years ago. they did not have any children, so this is his legacy. it is a working collection. it is not meant to be a museum. it is meant to be used, so we are in the process of sorting through and making it a little more user-friendly. this room is the exhibit room. it is actually the smaller of the two rooms so we call it the little room. eventually, the books that are older and the ones with nice bindings, they will be in this room. there will be a lot of empty space as we go down through the collection. there's a lot of empty space in this room and that is because we are in the process of shifting everything around. eventually, everything that we have moved to the big room will be moved back here a

. >> mr. noel was a local man who lived here most of his life and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200 now volumes. >> if we have a gem in the collection it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name i. newton, and we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> at american history tv looked at civil war era medical practices at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that, the things that we take for granted today when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as germ-free as possible or the doctor has washed his hands before he's decided to work on us, and we use the term loosely for doctors when we're talking early medi

next, shreveport, louisiana >> mr. noel was a local man who was born here. he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80's. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. >> if we have a gym in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it is one of the books we are most proud of. it is in the original binding from 1699 and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see his name -- i. newton. we do not bring it up so much anymore because it is very old. >> the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer heritage is a long stretch from what it is today. when you consider the things that we take for granted today, when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as germ-free as possible or the doctor has washed his hands before he works on you -- we used the term loosely, doctors, in the early days. many of them were self-taught or they worked with some dealers who had been self-taught and were getting toready to retire. >> our cities tour continues the weekend of march 31 and april 1

march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the noel memorial library. >> mr. knoll was a local man, born here and lived here most of his life. and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 0s. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see his written his name, i. newton. and we are not pulling it out so much anymore, because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> american history tv looked at civil war medical practices at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that, the things that we take for granted today when we go to the doctor. things like the instruments being germ-free as possible. or the doctor has washed his hands before he decides to work on us. and we loose use the term loosely in early medicine. a lot of doc

. >> mr. noel was a local man who was born here and lived here most of his life. he started accumulating boats and was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80's. he has accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably this one, one of the books we're most proud of. it is i in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. he has written his name, i. newton. we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away. >> a mess -- american history to be looked as civil war era medical practices. >> in near madison as a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that, the things we take for granted today when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments of being as a germ-free as possible or the doctor has washed his hands before he decides to work on us. we use the term loosely for doctors when we're talking early medicine. a lot of these doctors in our region or self-taught or they had worked under somebody else that was self-taught and they were getting read

. >> mr. noel was a local man who was born here, lived here most of his life, and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i. newton. and we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> and american history tv looked at civil war era medical practices at the pioneer medical museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that the things we take for granted today when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as germ-free as possible or, um, the doctor has washed his hands before he decides to work on us. and we use the term loosely for doctors when we're talkin

. >> mr. noel was a local man who was born here and lived here most of his life and started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80's. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i., newton and we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it's starting to flake away on the title page. >> they looked at civil war medical practices at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from where it is today. you consider that things that we take for granted today when we go to the doctors, such as instruments being as gern-free as possible or the doctor washed his hands before he decides to work on us. and we use the term loosely for doctors talking early medicine. a lot of the doctors in our re