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  • Chinese laundries : tickets to survival on Gold Mountain / John Jung

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    2007
    ©2007
    19th century
    20th century
  • Trade catalogs from Pineland Incubator & Brooder Co.

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    1800s
  • Henry Clay

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    c. 1831
  • Cylindrical cup (incense burner?), fragment

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    1610-1660
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    Edo period
  • Encyclopedia of modern art auction prices

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    1971
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    19e siècle
  • Robert Treat Paine

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    1802-22
  • The elements of algebra / translated from the three first chapters of the Algebra of M. Bourdon and designed for the use of students in and preparing for the University of London by Augustus De Morgan ..

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    1828
  • Theodosia Lavina Turner Griffith and Mary West Griffith

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    c. 1826
  • Phlegmariurus acerosus (Sw.) B. Øllg.

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    Feb 1826
  • Iga ware tea bowl

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    19th century
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    Edo period or Meiji era

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