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  • Bead/beads (Image withheld)

    Date created
    probably AD 1450–1850
  • From Béarn to Southern Africa : or the Amazing Destiny of Eugène Casalis / by Marie-Claude Mosimann-Barbier ; translated from the French by Jeanne Beckner

    Date
    2014
    19th century
  • Mehitable Pedrick Story

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    c. 1802
  • An outline of the history of ukiyo-ye : illustrated with twenty reproductions in Japanese wood engravings / by Ernest F. Fenollosa

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    1901
    Edo period, 1600-1868
  • Directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting specimens of natural history : prepared for the use of the Smithsonian Institution

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    1852
    January, 1852
    19th century
  • A Nation's legacy : 150 years of American art from Ohio collections / exhibition curator, Nannette V. Maciejunes ; editorial director, Norma Roberts

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    1992
    C1992
    19th century
    20th century
  • Pipe-ash receptacle

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    19th century
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    Edo period or Meiji era
  • Das Berliner Rathhaus : Denkschrift zur Grundsteinlegnung für das neue Rathhaus am 11ten Juni 1961

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    1861
    19th century
  • Firefighter's Spanner

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    1850-1800
  • bobbin

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    1800
    associated dates
    1800 00 00 / 1800 00 00

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