Shanghae races : spring meeting 1865

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  Hamond, Graham Eden, Sir, 1779-1862. Memorandum of a meeting with Sir Edmund Lyons…

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  United Service Club, London, Eng. (4 p.). Also enclosed: "Extract from the Morning Post of Wednesday 27th Feb. 1856 - Funeral of the Late Duke of Norfolk…" (3 p.). Subjects: Lyons, Edmund, Baron… ; Norfolk, Henry Charles Howard, Duke of…

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  A Navajo Indian Race

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  Two groups of Navajo on horseback gathered in the desert, watching horseback riders racing each other.

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  Betting card for deck racing on the SS Lurline. Focus of item: Lurline.

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  Sports - Horse Racing

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  Racing

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  Approx. 100 newspaper clippings about Otis Chandler's racing at the 31st annual Watkins Glen Six Hours endurance race. Also in this folder are four memos; five congratulatory letters, an original and photocopy of a photograph of Chandler kneeling next to his car; and the program for the 1979 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix Weekend races at Riverside International Raceway and the Starting Grids.

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  Anne C. Lynch Botta poems

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