Box 07

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The Dennis M. Powers papers contain research materials including interviews and notes used in the authorship of several books

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The hardback book by John Haskell Kemble published in 1957 by the Cornell Maritime Press called San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History.

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The hardback book published by Bonanza Books (New York) in 1969 called Pacific Square-Riggers: Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear by Jim Gibbs.

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The hardback book published by Howell-North Books (Berkeley, CA) in 1960 called San Francisco's Golden Era: A Picture Story of San Francisco Before the Fire by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.

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The hardback book published by Continental Heritage Press, Inc. (Tulsa, OK) in 1982 called Anchorage: Star of the North, a pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Anchorage, Alaska by Evangeline Atwood.

Scope and Contents The first item in this folder is a printed excerpt from a book published by Antiquarian Press, Ltd. (New York) in 1961 called Marine History of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Review of the Growth and Development of the Maritime Industry, from the Advent of the Earliest Navigators to the Present Time, with Sketches and Portraits of a Number of Well Known Marine Men edited by E. W. Wright. The second item is a printed photocopy of an article from volume 24 of National Geographic called...

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The series contains materials related to Dennis Powers' historical research and the writing of the book “Tales of the Seven Seas: The Escapades of Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien." The materials include papers concerning the publication and the promotion for the book.