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  • Japanese prints / Cecilia Whitford

    Date
    1978
    1978, c1977
    Edo period, 1600-1868
    Meiji period, 1868-1912
  • Trade catalogs from Fred Medart Mfg. Co.

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    1800s-1900s
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    1826 04 25
  • Large dish, base fragment

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    late 16th century-1670
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    Edo period
  • Bowl Bowl

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    1790-1950
  • Picturesque America; illustrations from the original 1874 edition, colored in the style of the period. The mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, waterfalls, shores, canyons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country by eminent American artists. Original pref. by William Cullen Bryant, pref. to this ed. by Oliver Jensen

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    1974
    [1974]
    19th century
  • Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918 / John F. Hutchinson

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    1990
    C1990
  • Charles Rhind

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    c. 1810-20
  • Base for a bowl, fragment

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    1600-1630
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    Momoyama or Edo period
  • Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)

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    probably 1800–1900

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