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  • Woman Wearing Bonnet, (painting)

    Date
    1825
  • An outline of ship building : in four parts / by John Fincham

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    1852
    19th century
  • Fish, (painting)

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    Second half 19th c
  • Fleeing for freedom : stories of the Underground Railroad / as told by Levi Coffin and William Still ; edited with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick

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    2004
    C2004
    19th century
  • Yujo, understudy (kamuro) and man-servant

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    1686-1764
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    Edo period
  • Zheng Banqiao lan zhu shou juan. / (Qing)Zheng Banqiao hui

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    2001
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Anne Sands Holland, (painting)

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    Ca. 1825-30
  • Science and culture for members only : the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century / Donna C. Mehos

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    2006
    C2006
    19th century
  • Liberia and the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century : convergence and effects William E. Allen

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    2010
    19th century
  • Clermont Seminary, (painting)

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    Ca. 1820

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