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  • Bowl, base fragment

    Date
    1600-1640
    Period
    Edo period
  • Inventing kindergarten / Norman Brosterman ; with original photography by Kiyoshi Togashi

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    1997
    19th century
    20th century
  • 국새 와 어보 : 왕권 과 왕실 의 상징 / 성 인근 지음

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    2018
    Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
  • Miss Thompson

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    c. 1810-20
  • Life Drawings of People of Foreign Nations: Picture of Dutch Women Raising a Wineglass and Caring for a Child

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    1861
    Period
    Edo period
  • The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private. Published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State. With explanatory notes ... by the editor, H.A. Washington

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    1954
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  • 1 Grosh, Poland (Russia), 1820

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    1820
  • Martha Colley, (painting)

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    Ca. 1820
  • Delaware Water Gap, (painting)

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  • Mrs. Ralph Warren (Beky Sherwin), (painting)

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    1829

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