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  • Masterpieces of Japanese screen painting : the American collections / introduction and commentaries on the screens by Miyeko Murase

    Date
    1990
    Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600
    Edo period, 1600-1868
  • Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop

    Date
    First half 19th century
    Period
    Edo period
  • Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl

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    1760 to 1808
  • "True worth is highly shown in liveing well" : architectural patronage in eighteenth-century Virginia / by Barbara Burlison Mooney

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    1991
    C1991
    18th century
  • Plan et Elévation d'un Cabinet avec Bibliothèques et Médaillers

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    1774
  • Elevations d'alcoves avec portes de degagement

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    1774
  • Caroli Linnæi sac. reg. maj. svec. archiat. ... Amoenitates academicæ, seu dissertationes variæ physicæ, medicæ, botanicæ / antehac seorsim editæ ; nunc collectæ et auctæ cum tabulis æneis

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    1749
    1790
    1749-1790
  • Mrs. Mary Thomson

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    n.d.a.
  • Winthrop's Boston; portrait of a puritan town, 1630-1649, by Darrett B. Rutman

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    1965
    C1965
    Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • Bifacial tool/projectile point fragment (Image withheld)

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    probably AD 1450–1850

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