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Travelling in Cuba : crossing the Hibar [Men crossing river at night o...

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Culp's Hill, occupied by the right wing of the Union Army, and the sce...

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Algerian man - Public domain dedication image

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Alsace-Lorraine girl - Public domain dedication image

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Romanian piper - Public domain dedication image

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Libby Prison : Richmond. - Public domain dedication image

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Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C.

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Camp of Head Quarters Army of the Potomac.

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Co. G 114th Reg. Penn Vols. - Public domain dedication image

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Jericho Mills : North Anna. - Public domain dedication image

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Second Corps Hospital : Brandy Station.

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Shirtless man, standing, with right arm in brace and harness, right ha...

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Gettysburg. - Public domain dedication image

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Seated man, fully clothed, right profile

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Dr. Benj. Woodward - Public domain dedication image

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Straw huts erected on Smith’s farm, and used as a hospital after the b...

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Plate 10. Dr. Van [Buren’s] case of acute osteomylelitis in a girl ele...

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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U-16 (clay nail) - Public domain dedication image

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Stone, Thomas. Annapolis. To Robert Christie

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Letter to General J. B. Planche, New Orleans

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Portrait, portrait, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Portrait, portrait, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Magnae Britanniae Notitia: or, the Present State of Great-Britain; Wit...

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Letter to Brig. Gen. [Edward] Hand

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EM. 6485, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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EM9054.1, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Title and opening of Gospel of Matthew. Miniature of Matthew. Elabor...

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Full-page miniature, in elaborate full border including human figures.

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Letter to Levi Hart, Preston [Conn.]

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Paper Money - Public domain dedication image

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Paper Money - Public domain dedication image

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Letter to [Thomas Sumter?] - Public domain document scan

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James Madison correspondence: Letter from Samuel Dickens

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Portrait, portrait, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

1772-1775, Boston Committee of Correspondence Records

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Newspaper clippings and other printed matter / Duyckinck family papers

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Brown Brothers Company Invoices: 1828-1845 1831-1833

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) is a private banking and investment firm based in New York City. The company was founded in 1818 by Alexander Brown. The firm expanded over time and established offices in Ne... More

La clef du cabinet hermetique - Public domain document scan of drawing

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Old New York; or, Reminiscences of the past sixty years. In the origin...

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La clef du cabinet hermetique - Public domain document scan of drawing

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View looking south of American. Bassens Docks, Bordeaux, Gironde, Fran...

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Soldiers Home. Cairo, Ill. - Public domain dedication image

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Song. Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled. Bruce at Bannockburn

President Roosevelt visits Ellis Island, Sept. 16, 1903.

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Photograph #1 - Public domain portrait print

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Spencer Trask, Katrina Trask, Eastman Johnson making a study for portr...

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Lincoln Square: Slum Clearance Plan under Title 1 of the Housing Act o...

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A bearded immigrant appearing before a board of inquiry.

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U.S. Sanitary Commission Soldiers Home. Camp Nelson, Ky.

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Photograph #4 - Public domain dedication image

Soldiers Home. [U.S. Sanitary Commission. Louisville, Ky.]

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Photograph of badge worn on first trip of the LaFayette

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Katrina and Christina Trask, reclining

Taft, Williams, and three others on Ellis Island, Oct. 18, 1910.

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Wooding in Xibara [Sailboat in harbor carrying lumber.]

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Guadeloupean woman.

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U.S. Sanitary Commission, New York Agency, 823 Broadway, New York, N.Y...

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Mending Breeks [Man mending breeches.]

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Dutch woman. - Public domain portrait photograph

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Aniconic representation of Muhammad leading the prophets into heaven

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Travers takes a bath. - Public domain dedication image

Robert Brewster Stanton photographs

Photograph #23 - Public domain portrait print

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Head Quarters of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, at the General Hospital...

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[An improvised dining room when we first reached Old Baldy (near San B...

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Photograph #32 - Public domain portrait print

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Romanian shepherd. - Public domain dedication image

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A sample of the six miles below the junction of the real Grand and Gre...

Robert Brewster Stanton photographs

Greek woman. - Public domain dedication image

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Rev. Joseph Vasilon, Greek-Orthodox priest.

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Hindoo boy. - Public domain dedication image

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Serbian Gypsies. - Public domain dedication image

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Woodhull, Nathaniel - Theodorus Bailey Myers manuscripts

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Photograph #57 - Public domain portrait print

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[no description.] - Public domain dedication image

Robert Brewster Stanton photographs

James Murphy, late Captain in the American Service, tried by Court-mar...

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Edward McGuiggan, 54th Ind. Vols ; John Rock ; Joseph Cleary, Lieut. A...

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Michael Burke ; P.J. Condon, Captain in the American Service ; John Ly...

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James Burns, Captain 23rd Ill. Vols ; Patrick S. Carey, proprietor of ...

William Dunphy ; John Lynch ; Patrick Comerford ; John McCormack.

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John Drew ; John Burke ; John Foster ; John Crean.

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Large initial, smaller initials, human and animal figures in border de...

Charles S. Clampitt, Philadelphia. Engaged as quarter master on steam...

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Miniature of Annunciation, initials, linefillers, and border design.

The Annunciation is a biblical event in which the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary to announce that she had been chosen to give birth to Jesus, the Son of God. The event is recorded in the New Testamen... More

Man with injured right leg stands clothed in shirt, vest and pants, wi...

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Opening of main text, with initial, border design, placemarkers.

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Front cover of binding with silver plaque of Moses striking the rock.

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Opening of text. Miniature of Annunciation, initials, full border des...

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Miniature of Bernard and demon, border design, small initials, linefil...

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Explicit., Illuminated medieval manuscript

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Miniature of Annunciation. Figure of monkey and cat playing a musical...

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Page of text with border design, initials, linefillers and rubrics.

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Document [fair copy of the Declaration of Independence]

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Map of Europe, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Asia. Personifications ...

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Full-page miniature of God creating flowers and plants.

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Full-page miniature of God creating Eve from Adam.

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Full-page miniature of God pointing out the apple tree to Adam and Eve...

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Text with placemarkers and rubric; miniature including Samson.

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