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  • Cetacean sp.

    Collection Date
    1791
  • Man in White Waistcoat

    Date
    1798
  • Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills and other machines depending on a circular motion : and an experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest : also new fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies : with five plates of machines / by the late Mr. John Smeaton ..

    Date
    1794
  • View of the wharf and harbor in Havre

    Date made
    1770-1790
  • Jar/Olla

    Date created
    AD 1650–1900
  • Animal bone

    Date created
    probably AD 1600–1800
  • Baroque music : style and performance : a handbook / Robert Donington

    Date
    1982
    17th century
    18th century
  • Henry Benbridge, 1743-1812 : Charleston portrait painter / with essays by Maurie D. McInnis ... et al. ; catalog and transcription by Angela D. Mack

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    2000
    [2000]
    18th century
  • Fragment of a large bowl

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    1650-1700
    Period
    Edo period
  • A sorrow in our heart : the life of Tecumseh / by Allan W. Eckert

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    1993
    C1993
    1750-1815

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