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A famous victory
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Victory
Manuscripts
The "California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848-December 31, 1849" comprises individual histories of 762 ships as well as various subject files, arranged in alphabetical order. Goodman records a broad spectrum of information derived from a variety of sources about the multitude of Gold Rush vessels. The bulk of the manuscripts are photocopies and some are heavily annotated in the author's hand. Some histories include hand colored illustrations of maps and ships. They were written and edited between 1970-1991.
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"The Battle of Manila, Commodore George Dewey's Famous Victory"
Manuscripts
mssNicholson papers and addenda
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Famous Black Quotations and some not so famous
Manuscripts
selected and compiled by Janet Cheatham Bell, 1986
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