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  • Farbe und Metall : Kunst aus dem Feuer : Lili Schultz, Email im 20. Jahrhundert : Lili Schultz (Schenkung Ragaller) und Schüler / herausgeber, Museum für Angewandte Kunst der Stadt Köln ; Konzept, Katalogbearbeitung, Ausstellungsgestaltung, Gerhard Dietrich

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    1991
    20th century
  • Supplement to Hydrographic Office publication no. 150, sailing directions for the east coast of England : (fourth edition, 1935), 1943 reprint

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    1946
  • Available Online at BHL Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society

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  • film negative

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    ca 1940s
  • The Negro in the armed forces, his value and status, past, present, and potential, by Seymour J. Schoenfeld ..

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    1945
  • African Americans and Southern politics from redemption to disfranchisement / edited with an introduction by Donald G. Nieman

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    1865-1951
  • Shield of the Republic : the United States Navy in an era of Cold War and violent peace / Michael T. Isenberg

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  • American rooms in miniature, by Mrs. James Ward Thorne; December 6, 1940-June 6, 1941

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  • Sky road : a comedy of the airways in three acts / by N. Richard Nusbaum ..

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  • Marisora lineola

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