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  • Thieves' road : the Black Hills betrayal and Custer's path to Little Bighorn / Terry Mort

    Date
    2015
    1866-1895
    19th century
  • View from Apple Hill, (painting)

    Date
    1829
  • Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)

    Date created
    probably 1800–1850
  • Eleven years in Ceylon comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony, and an account of its history and antiquities by Major Forbes, 78th Highlanders ; in two volumes

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    1840
    19th century
  • SEE history 2005 : der private Blick / herausgegeben von Dirk Luckow

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    2005
    19th century
    20th century
    21st century
  • Lophodytes cucullatus

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    -- -- 18--
  • American artists & the Louvre / exhibition catalog edited by Elizabeth Kennedy and Olivier Meslay ; with contributions by Lois Marie Fink ... et al.

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    2006
    C2006
    19th century
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  • Sixty miles from contentment : : traveling the nineteenth-century American interior / M.H. Dunlop

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    1995
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    19th century
  • Sagwitch : Shoshone chieftain, Mormon elder, 1822-1887 / Scott R. Christensen ; foreword by Brigham D. Madsen

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    1999
    C1999
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  • U.S.S. Saratoga, (painting)

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