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  • Ophiopholis aculeata

    Collection Date
    1878
  • Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

    Date
    2015
    19th century
    Famine, 1845-1852
  • Patent Office Oil Tank Valve

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    1871
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    1871-03-28
  • Forest of Mississippi Valley (Record Photo), 1881 - No. 9 -- Swamp White Oak

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    1875
    Circa 1881
  • Boltenia ovifera

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    1879
  • medal

    Date made
    1876
  • Botrychium simplex E. Hitchc.

    Collection Date
    6 Jun 1879
  • La tentation de Saint-Antoine : féerie à grand spectacle en 2 actes et 40 tableaux / par Henri Rivière ; représentée pour la première fois sur le theatre du chat noir le 28 décembre 1887 ; musique nouvelle et arrangée de MM. Albert Tinchant et Georges Fragerolle

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  • dress, 1-piece

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  • Pholoe longa

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