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  • Vestigia, reminiscences of peace and war, by Lieut.-Colonel Charles à Court Repington ..

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    1919
    19th century
  • Beyond time and place : non-realist painting in the nineteenth century / Philippe Roberts-Jones

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    1978
    19th century
  • Kabuki actor performing a dance

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    mid 18th-late 18th century
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  • Battle at Bunker's Hill, (painting)

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    Early 19th c
  • Caesalpiniaceae of Northern South America, plant catalogs, undated

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    1805-1928
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    1805
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    1928
  • Early American decorative arts, 1620-1860 : a handbook for interpreters / Rosemary Troy Krill

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    2010
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  • American painting around 1850 : an exhibition for the American Revolution Bicentennial and celebrating the founding of the University of Utah on February 28, 1850 : 11 January-22 February, 1976, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah / by Robert S. Olpin

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    1976
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  • Conveniences sorely needed : Montana's historic highway bridges, 1860-1956 / Jon Axline

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    2005
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  • Buffalo soldiers and officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898 : black & white together / Charles L. Kenner

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