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San Maxymo at Xibara [Men and women socializing and dancing.]

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The barn and orchard attached to Gen. Meade’s Headquarters. During th...

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Hospital Steamer ‘Red Rover.’ - Public domain dedication image

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Bone. - Public domain dedication image

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Quarters of Major Robertson near Brandy Station.

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F St. - Public domain dedication image

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Patient in a hot head pillow. - Public domain dedication image

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Fort Hell : in front of Petersburg.

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Company of colored troops - Public domain dedication image

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Andrometer. No. 3. April 8th 1865.

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J.S. Newberry : Sec[retar]y, West[ern] Dept., US San. Com.

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Quartermaster’s Department, Belle Plain, May 17, 1864.

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Encampment of 2d N.Y. and 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery, Belle Plain, May ...

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Plate 13. [John Schmidt (...) 28. Amputation at hip joint. Sept. 1866...

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J. T. Pancoast - Public domain dedication image

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James Madison correspondence: Letter from James Smith

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Letter to Nathaniel Ramsey

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February 1, 1940 letter from Willa Cather

Ten Eyck, John [Recorder], Abraham Yates Jr papers

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View of the fort at Xibara., William H. Meyers

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Letter from Philip Schuyler to Simeon De Witt and John Thurman

Biographical sketch of Washington Allston / Duyckinck family papers

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Howard ambulance, front and side view, interior view of opened wooden ...

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Illustration of suture near eyelid

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Letter from Andrew Elton Wells

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Bean, Theodore W - Public domain portrait print

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Letter from Lord Hillsborough [Wills Hills] to Sir Henry Moore

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Letter / Duyckinck family papers

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George III. St. James Court. To Richard Rigby, Paymaster General

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James Madison correspondence: Undated correspondence

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Lowell, Josephine Shaw - Samuel J. Tilden papers

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Virginia, Boston Committee of Correspondence Records

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Letters, Biographical Sketch and Miscellaneous Papers / Duyckinck fami...

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Dean, John Ward (1815-?) / Duyckinck family papers

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Letters, Sketches and Miscellaneous Papers / Duyckinck family papers

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Howard ambulance, side view, wooden box (for limb support) on ground. ...

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William Richards. - Public domain portrait print

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Four men in front of sheltered tent next to U.S. Christian Commission ...

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Hotel Dieu [New Orleans, La.] - Public domain dedication image

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2d Corp [i.e. Corps] Hospital [Brandy Station].

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Slaughter Pen : Gettysburg. - Public domain dedication image

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Head Quarters F St. - Public domain dedication image

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Camp near Brandy Station. - Public domain dedication image

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Dutch Gap Canal. - Public domain dedication image

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Hospital near Brandy Station. - Public domain dedication image

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Fredericksburg [View of Fredericksburg from across river].

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U.S. Sanitary Commission, Fredericksburg, four views.

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Quaker guns. - Public domain dedication image

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Engineers camp on the Rappahannock.

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Pontoon bridges at Fredericksburg, Va.

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Home : Capitol Hill. - Public domain dedication image

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Main St. : Petersburg [Wagon train on street, church steeple in distan...

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Dynamometer. Feb. 3d 1865. - Public domain dedication image

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Wenham, Boston Committee of Correspondence Records

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J. T. Pancoast - Public domain dedication image

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Supply Depot, Washington. - Public domain dedication image

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Pontoon bridge over Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, May 20, ‘64.

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Fortifications on the James. - Public domain dedication image

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Pl. No. 5 of Dr. Jones' papers : Microscopical appearances of gangreno...

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Wm. B. Bowles, Esq. - Public domain dedication image

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Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855) / Duyckinck family papers

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Williams, Samuel / Duyckinck family papers

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Filippo Mazzei - Letter to Benjamin Harrison

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James Madison correspondence: Letter from Samuel Morse

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Mackenzie, Laurence / Duyckinck family papers

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Duer, William Alexander (1780-1858) / Duyckinck family papers

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Filippo Mazzei - Letter to Benjamin Harrison

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Silas Deane Letters: 1767 April 17

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Immigrants being registered at one end of the Main Hall, U. S. Immigra...

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Light battery at Brandy Station : Robinson’s Artillery.

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Edgar Allan Poe letter to E.A. Duyckinck / Duyckinck family papers

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Sanftleben, Georg - Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Contributions

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Henry Philip Tappan letter to E.A. Duyckinck / Duyckinck family papers

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Stout, Henry - Christianity in Japan

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Letter to Col. [John] Bradstreet

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Letter from Joseph Warren

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Unidentified - Samuel J. Tilden papers

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Biographical sketch of Washington Allston / Duyckinck family papers

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Stout, Henry - Christianity in Japan

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Letters / Duyckinck family papers

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Dean, John Ward (1815-?) / Duyckinck family papers

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undated letters / Duyckinck family papers

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Dean, John Ward (1815-?) / Duyckinck family papers

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James Madison correspondence: Undated correspondence

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Round Top, : Noted for the desperate struggle which took place near it...

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Office of Sanitary Commission, Louisville, Ky.

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Entrance to office of Sanitary Commission. No. 8 Cherry Street, Nashvi...

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Torn love letter to Elena Crane from Mario Gigliucci

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Matthews House : Battlefield of Bull Run.

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Fortifications on heights of Centreville.

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John F. Claghorn, 214 Gold St., Brooklyn L.I.

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Camp at Cumberland Landing. - Public domain dedication image

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Camp at Brandy Station. - Public domain dedication image

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Camp at Gettysburg [Elevated view of troops and officers in formation ...

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Headquarters Army [of the] Potomac, Brandy Station.

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Battlefield of Gettysburgh [sic]: U.S. General Hospital.

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