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  • Small bowl, base fragment

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    1600-1640
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    Edo period
  • The Marina Piccola, Capri (painting)

    Date
    1859
  • Shepherd Boy, (sculpture)

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    Ca. 1854
  • Aspidium wrightii Mett. ex D.C. Eaton

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    Jan 1859 to Jul 1859
  • East Rock, New Haven

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    1853
  • Voyage dans les solitudes américaines. Voyage au Minnesota, par l'abbé E. Domenech ..

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    1958
    1858
  • Art nouveau jewelry / Vivienne Becker

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    1985
    C1985
    19th century
  • The boisterous sea of liberty : a documentary history of America from discovery through the Civil War / edited by David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz

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    1998
    Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
    Revolution, 1775-1783
    1783-1865
    To 1865
  • Ten years among the mail bags; or, Notes from the diary of a special agent of the Post-office department. By J. Holbrook

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    1856
  • William Harnett's curious objects still-life painting after the American Civil War Nika Elder

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    2022
    19th century
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