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  • Awl and case

    Date created
    1880-1920
  • Aristeus virilis

    Collection Date
    19 Aug 1909
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    Collection Date
    Dec 1900
  • Drill

    Date created
    probably AD 1600–1900
  • Do-sah-hu-pay

    Date
    1909
  • Bishop Neely, (painting)

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    Ca. 1900
  • Art in our time / henshū Seibu Hyakkaten

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    1991
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    20th century
  • Adiantum pyramidale (L.) Willd.

    Collection Date
    7 Apr 1903
  • certified proof

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    1909-02-20
    plate date
    1906-01-30
    series date
    1902
  • Chaenactis heterocarpha Torr. & A. Gray ex A. Gray

    Collection Date
    14 Jun 1905

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