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Title: Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration 1830-1890
Description: One of the appendices includes a list of ships with detailed information about them including specific voyages, all prior to Ellis Island. Also many photos and drawings of the ships.
Date: 1983
Object Type: Book

Title: J. E. Vincent and Co.
Description: Advertising card for J. E. Vincent and Co. showing two sailing ships and a border of flowers. Front of card says: "Vincent's Millinery Opening, April 19 and 20, 1883." Front lower left corner has number 27 and says: "Copyright by Robinson Eng. Co. Boston U.S.A. 1880." Card folds and inside says: "Our 4th Annual Opening of Fine French Millinery and Hair Goods, and Exhibition of Pattern Bonnets and Round Hats, also all the Latest Novelties, Thursday and Friday, April 19th and 20th, 1883." Back of card is blank except for tiny text: "Harrington, Typ." Address given inside card: 701 Main St., cor. Seventh, Kansas City.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Navy Readies a Missouri Namesake
Description: The name, USS Missouri, "will live on, assigned to a $2 billion nuclear-powered attack submarine now being welded together in Groton, Conn." The original USS Missouri was the "mighty battleship on which the Japanese formally surrendered to end World War II" and is now a museum at Pearl Harbor. This is the fifth vessel to bear the USS Missouri name. Includes a sidebar with USS Missouri stats, earlier ships named Missouri, and How You Can Participate.
Date: 2009-04-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868
Description: Compiled descriptive entries of vessels that served the Union forces during the Civil War. Separate entries enumerate 1,966 steamers, 2,003 sailing vessels, and 64 miscellaneous ships. Annotated vessel listings are followed by source citations.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Book

Title: The Last Battleship: USS Missouri
Description: Article about the history of the "world's last battleship," the U. S. S. Missouri, the site of the surrender of Japan to the United States in World War II and later a "cold war icon," with photos.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

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