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  • Arrow foreshaft (Image withheld, pending review)

    Date created
    possibly AD 500–1900 (Pueblo 1 to Post-contact period)
  • Commerce and culture : the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 / Christine Leigh Heyrman

    Date
    1984
    C1984
    18th century
    To 1775
  • Allophylus glabratus (Kunth) Radlk.

    Collection Date
    1760 to 1808
  • Worked stone (Image withheld, pending review)

    Date created
    1700-1850
  • The general gazetteer : or, Compendious geographical dictionary containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, and capes in the known world, with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants ... / Originally written by R. Brookes

    Date
    1794
  • handkerchief

    Date made
    1780 - 1799
  • Two Little Girls, (painting)

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    1790-1810
  • Order and chance : the pattern of Diderot's thought / Geoffrey Bremner

    Date
    1983
    18th century
  • Commodore Edward Preble (1761-1807), (painting)

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    Late 18th c
  • Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)

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    AD 1000–1850 (Late Holocene to Post-contact period)

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