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  • Didymoglossum reptans (Sw.) C. Presl

    Collection Date
    1854
  • Mysticete sp.

    Collection Date
    -- -- 18--
  • Battle hymns : the power and popularity of music in the Civil War / Christian McWhirter

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    2012
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    19th century
    Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Unidentified Man

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    1858
  • Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the forty-first Congress Volume I

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    1870
    19th century
    1869-1877
  • Trade catalogs from F. B. Bannan

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    1800s
  • Serapias lingua L.

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    30 May 1851
  • Portrait of Mrs. Earle, (painting)

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    Ca. 1850
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    1855-1856
  • Isaac Jennings, Captain, (painting)

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    Ca. 1850

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