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1Title:  American naval heroes 1775-1812-1861-1898    
 Creator:  Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917 
 Lane, Gertrude Battles.
 Publication:  Brown and Company, Boston,1899. 
 Call #:  E182 B878 
 Extent:  607 p. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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2Title:  Lives of distinguished American naval officers    
 Creator:  Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 
 Publication:  Carey and Hart, Philadelphia,1846. 
 Notes:  First edition. BAL 3920. Vignette title-pages called for by BAL lacking. Bound in brown cloth; stamped in gold and blind; pale yellow endpapers. Front cover lacking. Purchased from Gilman, Crompond, N. Y. 
 Call #:  E182 C777 
 Extent:  2 v. in 1. ports. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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3Title:  American naval biography: comprising lives of the commodores, and other commanders distinguished in the history of the American navy    
 Creator:  Frost, John, 1800-1859 
 Publication:  E.H. Butler, Philadelphia,1844. 
 Notes:  Added t.-p., engr. Published in 7 parts. 
 Call #:  E182 F939A 
 Extent:  xiv, 9-440 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) plates. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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4Title:  The pictorial book of the commodores: comprising lives of distinguished commanders in the navy of the United States    
 Creator:  Frost, John, 1800-1859 
 Publication:  Nafis & Cornish, J. B. Perry: [etc., etc, New York, Philadelphia,c1845] 
 Notes:  Published in 1844 under title: American naval biography. 
 Call #:  E182 F939 
 Extent:  1 p. 1., xiv, 9-440 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) plates. 23 1/2 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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5Title:  Naval heroes of America    
 Publication:  H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, Philadelphia,[n.d.] 
 Call #:  E182 N319 
 Extent:  191 p. ports. 9 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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6Title:  Twelve naval captains: being a record of certain Americans who made themselves immortal    
 Creator:  Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916 
 Publication:  Scribner, New York,1899, c1897. 
 Call #:  E182 S542 
 Extent:  233 p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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7Title:  Twelve naval captains: being a record of certain Americans who made themselves immortal    
 Creator:  Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916 
 Publication:  Scribner,1912. 
 Call #:  E182 S542 1912 
 Extent:  [7] p., 2 leaves, 233 p. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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8Title:  Franklin Jeremiah Drake Papers     
 Creator:  Drake, Franklin Jeremiah 
 Dates:  1890-1929 
 Abstract:  Franklin Jeremiah Drake (1846-1929) was a United States naval officer who served fifty-two years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a rear admiral. He engineered the first survey of the Isthmus of Panama for the Panama Canal in 1896 and assisted in charting the Bering Sea after the U.S. acquired Alaska from Russia. At one time he served on the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides". The collection consists of biographical sketch, correspondence, certificates of membership in various organizations, a speech given at a G.A.R meeting, notes from a cruise of the Pacific Ocean, including a journal kept by Mrs. Drake, some military papers, newspaper clippings, and some diplomas of Nellie Pierson, whose connection to Drake has not been established. 
 Call #:  MS 4397 
 Extent:  0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Drake, Franklin Jeremiah, 1846-1929. | United States. Navy -- Biography. | Ocean travel
 
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9Title:  The life and character of Stephen Decatur: late commodore and post-captain in the navy of the United States, and navy-commissioner: interspersed with brief notices of the origin, progress, and achievements of the American navy    
 Creator:  Waldo, S. Putnam (Samuel Putnam), 1780-1826 
 Publication:  Printed by P. B. Goodsell, Hartford,1821. 
 Notes:  Wanting, p. 17-20. 
 Call #:  E353.1 D291W2 
 Extent:  xi, [13]-312 p. illus. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Decatur, Stephen, -- 1779-1820 | United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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10Title:  The life and character of Stephen Decatur: late commodore and post-captain in the navy of the United States, and navy-commissioner, interspersed with brief notices of the origin, progress, and achievements of the American navy    
 Creator:  Waldo, S. Putnam (Samuel Putnam), 1780-1826 
 Publication:  Clark & Lyman, Middletown, Conn,1821. 
 Call #:  E353.1 D291W1 
 Extent:  xi, 378 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Decatur, Stephen, -- 1779-1820 | United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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11Title:  History of the United States Navy: and biographical sketches of American naval heroes from the formation of the navy to the close of the Mexican war    
 Creator:  Peterson, Charles Jacobs, 1819-1887 
 Publication:  Gihon, Philadelphia,1852. 
 Call #:  E182 P485 
 Extent:  xv, 611 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- History | United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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12Title:  Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy    
 Creator:  Hamersly, Lewis Randoloh, 1847-1910 
 Publication:  L.R. Hamersly, New York,1905. 
 Call #:  E181 H18 
 Extent:  383 p. ports. 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Army -- Biography | United States. -- Navy -- Biography
 
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13Title:  The records of living officers of the U.S. navy and marine corps    
 Creator:  Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910 
 Publication:  L. R. Hamersly & co, New York,1898. 
 Call #:  E182 H216 
 Extent:  3 p. l., 382 p. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography | United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography
 
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14Title:  A naval encyclopµdia: comprising a dictionary of nautical words and phrases; biographical notices, and records of naval officers; special articles of naval art and science    
 Publication:  L. R. Hamersly & co, Philadelphia,1881. 
 Notes:  "Records of living officers of the navy to July 1, 1880": p. 875-1017. "List of principal works consulted": p. iv. 
 Call #:  V23 N318 
 Extent:  vii, 13-1017 p. illus. 27 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography | Naval art and science -- Dictionaries
 
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15Title:  Navy maverick: Uriah Phillips Levy    
 Creator:  Fitzpatrick, Donovan. 
 Saphire, Saul, 1895-1974
 Publication:  Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y,1963. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliography and index. 
 Call #:  E182 L668F5 
 Extent:  273 p. illus. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Levy, Uriah Phillips, -- 1792-1862 | United States. -- Navy -- Biography | Seamen, Jewish -- United States -- Biography
 
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16Title:  John Paul Jones, a sailor's biography    
 Creator:  Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976 
 Publication:  Northeastern University Press, Boston,1985, c1959. 
 Notes:  Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1959. With a new foreword by Gaddis Smith. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [431]-443. 
 Call #:  E207 J77M8 
 Extent:  xx, 453 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Jones, John Paul. -- 1747-1792 | United States. -- Navy -- Biography | Admirals -- United States -- Biography
 
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17Title:  Naval biography: consisting of memoirs of the most distinguished officers of the American navy; to which is annexed the life of General Pike    
 Publication:  Morgan, Williams & co, Cincinnati,1815. 
 Call #:  E182 N318 1815 Vault 
 Extent:  vi, 296 p. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography | Ohio imprints 1815 | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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18Title:  Battles and heroes of the American navy    
 Creator:  Shippen, Edward, 1826-1911 
 Meyers, Robert Cornelius V., 1858-
 Publication:  Manufacturers Book Co, Philadelphia,[c1902] 
 Call #:  E182 S557 
 Extent:  1 p. leave, xi, 13-685 p. incl. illus., plates, ports. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- History | United States. -- Navy -- Biography | United States -- History, Naval
 
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19Title:  Officers of our Union army and navy: Their lives, their portraits. Vol. 1    
 Creator:  Dudley, Dean, 1823-1906 
 Publication:  L. Prang, Boston, Washington,c1862. 
 Notes:  Engraved t.-p. Preface signed: Dean Dudley. No more published. Another issue of the same year has printed instead of engraved t.-p. 
 Call #:  E467 D848 
 Extent:  viii, [9]-148 p. incl. ports. port. 14 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Army -- Biography | United States. -- Navy -- Biography | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
 
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20Title:  The records of living officers of the U. S. navy and Marine corps: with a history of naval operations during the rebellion of 1861-5, and a list of the ships and officers participating in the great battles    
 Creator:  Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910 
 Publication:  J.B. Lippincott & co, Philadelphia,1870. 
 Call #:  E182 H212 
 Extent:  350 p. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Navy -- Biography | United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
 
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