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  • Trade card featuring poppies and other flowers bordering and covering an advertisement for a New Home sewing machine / New Home Sewing Machine Company

    Date
    1876
    1899
    [Between 1876 and 1899]
  • Beach at Beverly, (painting)

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    Ca. 1869/1872
  • Alfred E. Smith, the happy warrior / Christopher M. Finan

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    2002
    1928
    1865-1950
    1901-1953
  • Tachyphonus delatrii

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    7 Mar 1873
  • Olympia's progeny : loan exhibition, October 28th to November 27th, 1965

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    1965
    C1965
    19th century
  • Bryum coronatum Schwägr.

    Collection Date
    Mar 1877
  • British furniture, 1880-1915 / Pauline Agius

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    1978
    C1978
    19th century
    20th century
  • The monumental effgies of Great Britain; selected from our cathedrals and churches ... from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eighth. By C. A. Stothard. With historical description and notes by Alfred John Kempe

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    1876
  • Pilot Boat W. W. Story of New York, (painting)

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    1879
  • Fruit, (painting)

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    1876

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