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  • Applied geophysics in the location of oil, by Wm. Clement Leonard

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    1926
    [1928?]
  • Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city / Tyina L. Steptoe

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    2016
    20th century
  • Hassel Smith : paintings 1937-1997 / edited by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Paul J. Karlstrom, Susan Landauer

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    2012
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  • William Forsythe Choreographic objects Louise Neri, Eva Respini

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    2018
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  • Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency / Charles Rappleye

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    2016
    1929-1933
  • Make art not war : political protest posters from the twentieth century / edited by Ralph Young

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    2016
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  • Ten Washington artists: 1950-1970 Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Sam Gilliam, Blaine Larson, Michael Clark, J. L. Knight and Rockne Krebs Prepared by Andrew Hudson

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    1970
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  • Contemporary Chinese art : a critical history / Paul Gladston

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    2014
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  • The Chicago race riots, July, 1919 / Carl Sandburg ; with an introductory note by Walter Lippmann ; preface to the Dover edition by Paul Buhle

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  • Conserving the Dust Bowl : the New Deal's Prairie States Forestry Project / Sarah Thomas Karle and David Karle

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