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  • American art from the gilded age : paintings and photographs : 100th birthday celebration, the Admiralty House 1883-1993 : art at the Vice President's House, Washington, D.C. / exhibition organizers, Susan Manilow, Jane Slate Siena ; curator, Richard Murray

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    1993
    [1993?]
    20th century
    19th century
  • American superiority at the World's Fair : designed to accompany a chromo-lithographic picture, illustrative of prizes awarded to American citizens at the Great Exhibition ; a compilation of public and private sources / by Charles T. Rodgers

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    1852
  • Relatorio

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  • Limestone Cliff North End of Gunnisons Island

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    1852
    Circa 1852
  • Boken och konstnären : Albert Bonniers förlag 150 år / katalogtext, Ann Katrin Pihl Atmer, Barbro Schaffer

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    1987
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  • Weathering the storm : inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream / Peter H. Wood

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    2004
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  • Within the landscape : essays on nineteenth-century American art and culture / edited by Phillip Earenfight and Nancy Siegel

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  • Daughters of the Union : northern women fight the Civil War / Nina Silber

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  • Slavery, freedom & culture among early American workers / Graham Russell Hodges

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