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Picture History of American Passenger Ships by William H., Jr. Miller More than 100 ships documented, including Leviathan, America, Independence, President Polk, and United States. Detailed captions list tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs.
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|  | Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners, 1860–1994: 417 Photographs by William H., Jr. Miller Virtually every passenger ship over 15,000 tons built from 1860 to 1994: Great Eastern, Lusitania, Titanic, Normandie, Queen Elizabeth, Monarch of the Seas, many more. Captions give builder, history, tonnage, length, speed, etc.
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America’s Lighthouses: An Illustrated History by Francis Ross Holland, Jr. Profusely illustrated fact-filled survey of American lighthouses since 1716. Over 200 stations — East, Gulf, and West coasts, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers.
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|  | Picture History of the SS United States by William H., Jr. Miller 159 rare photos depict stages in ship's construction and its christening, intimate views of modern lounges, staterooms, dining rooms, promenade and pool, theaters, ballroom, and play decks. Captions. 159 black-and-white photos.
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A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Decorative Ironwork: Twelfth Through Eighteenth Centuries by Otto Hoever Over 450 black-and-white photos, royalty-free, show great ironwork from all over Europe — doors, gates, railings, grilles, lanterns, candelabra, firedogs, chandeliers, much more.
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|  | The Kedge Anchor; or, Young Sailors' Assistant by William Brady Mid-19th-century bible of U.S. sailors; no-nonsense text gives instructions for knotting and rigging, blacking the guns, stationing the crew, dealing with dire emergencies, much more. 70 rare engravings, glossary, 100 pages of useful tables.
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