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  • Artists and the avant-garde theater in Paris, 1887-1900 : the Martin and Liane W. Atlas collection / Patricia Eckert Boyer

    Date
    1998
    19th century
  • Local patronage and commercial enterprise in Lagos 1850-1861

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    1992
    19th century
  • Gentleman, (painting)

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    September 1, 1818
  • Exhibiting Mormonism : the Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / Reid L. Neilson

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    2011
    ©2011
    19th century
  • The medicine line : life and death on a North American borderland / Beth LaDow

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    2001
    19th century
  • Mrs. Samuel Hayes Pennington (Anna), (painting)

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    Late 19th c
  • The American new dispensatory ... With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters. Medical prescriptions. The nature and medical uses of the gases. Medical electricity. Galvanism. An abridgment of Dr. Currie's Reports on the use of water. The cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium. And several useful tables. The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American. By James Thacher ..

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    1813
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  • Nothing more agreeable : music in George Washington's family / Judith S. Britt

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    1984
    C1984
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    19th century
  • Shaft straightener/smoother (Image withheld, pending review)

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    AD 500–1850 (Late Holocene to Post-contact period)
  • The Old Dominion and the new nation, 1788-1801 by Richard R. Beeman

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    1972
    [1972]
    1775-1865
    1783-1809

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