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  • Storm at Sea, (painting)

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  • Confederate Spiller & Burr Revolver

    date made
    ca 1863
  • Regular Union Ticket

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    1865 10 26
  • The annotated Walden: Walden; or, Life in the woods by Henry D. Thoreau. Together with Civil disobedience, a detailed chronology and various pieces about its author, the writing and publishing of the book. Edited, with an introd., notes, and bibliography by Philip Van Doren Stern

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  • 10 Dollars

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    1863
  • Lathyrus violaceus Greene

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    1868 to 1869
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    1869
  • John Burns

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    1863
  • Erigeron subtrinervis Rydb. ex Porter & Britton

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    1862

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