Doctoral Thesis Cover Page — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a title page of a scholarly thesis, not a Victorian penny dreadful. The document, submitted to the University of Minnesota's Graduate School in July 1927, concerns "The Absorptive Properties of Metallized Silica Gels and Their Catalytic Activity in the Simple Oxidation Reactions" by Lloyd Edward Swearingen, submitted for a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Library stamps indicate it was held at Stanford University and has since been withdrawn from their collection. This is academic chemistry research, not popular entertainment literature.