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Plan and section of Villa Capra "La Rotonda," Vicenza, Italy

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Alphabet & Lord's Prayer - Public domain dedication image

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Aveline Pierre le Vieux - Pierre Paul Rubens - Two satyrs, and the hea...

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Juan Gines de Sepúlveda. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Le maitre de danse Brabancon faisant repeter au petit Condé le pas d'a...

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Palais de justice; 2eme grand prix proposé par l'academie en 1782 et r...

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Specimens of waltzing - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Salvatore Viganò - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mrs. Parker in a Scotch dance - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Unidentified ballet - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Luigi Mayer - Nazareth - Engraving, Public domain image

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Petra Camara. Lith. v. Weixlgärtner. Gedr. b. J. Höfelich's Wwe.

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R. Gusman, Art print depicting dance

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Wandverzierung im Grabgebäude des Ibrahim Aga zu Kairo

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Book illustration - House of Birds. Book by John Lloyd Stephens 1805-1...

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Signor Pugni's ballet Eoline ou La dryade. No. 2, Mazurka d'extâse. Mu...

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The procession of the bull beneath the mound of Nimroud

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Habit of the grand seignior or emperor of the Turks in 1700. Le grand ...

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Maistre à Dancer. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Negedi horse, Arabia - Egypt

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Théâtre de l'Opera. Melle Plunkett rôle de Vert-Vert: Imp. Jacomme & C...

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Inmen, Pearl - C.A. Stuart photographer

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The Slave Chain at the Coast., african travels

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Kim & Jennie to Laura H. Fredille.

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Nine designs for jewelry, including pin with diamonds and red stones.

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Scene of a lynch at Clinton, Alabama, August 1891

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Miss Ida B. Wells, [Frontispiece]

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Nénuphar, Maurice Pillard Verneuil

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Capucine, Maurice Pillard Verneuil

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Types of Women, Martinique - Public domain portrait print

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1837 [Women's fashion in nineteenth-century Paris]

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1817 [Women's fashion in nineteenth-century Paris]

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1810 [Women's fashion in nineteenth-century Paris]

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Ego Imperatorskoe Velichestvo Gosudar' Imperator Nikolai Aleksandrovic...

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Blue fish costume - Public domain zoological illustration

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Ballet: Paysan galant, Art print depicting dance

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Ulysses and Calypso. - A drawing of a man and a woman

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untitled - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Gingham girl 4 - Drawing. Public domain image.

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19-Lady Moya-Act 4 - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Musical Comedy 4 - Public domain portrait drawing

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82-Spades - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Nos. 251 & 255 West 98th Street. Adjoining West End Avenue.

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How the Bolsheviks Punish Villages

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Dead-Man's-Hill (Le Mort Homme).

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Robin and His Mother Go to Nottingham Fair

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Bridges. Ashokan reservoir. ... Contract 49. October 2, 1912.

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Peekskill cut-and-cover. Method of hadnling concrete. Contract 2. Oct...

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1-Red Roses - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Cheerfully doing the work required; The colored women did willingly an...

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Medinah Temple, Chicago. Ballets Russes production

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Henry Highland Garnet. - Public domain historical image

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Girls on Ostriches - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Joys-Front - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Front of "Good Days" - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Sousaphone player - A black and white photo of a man playing a tuba

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Badly eroded land, farmhouse in the background, near Farmville, Virgin...

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Uptown Art Lab - Public domain portrait print

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Photography exhibit - Public domain portrait print

African American Charity Adams, First Officer in the Women's Army Auxi...

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Black Heritage from the Schomburg Collection

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A Persian king who is a Zoroastrian and his young son, Salmân al-Fâris...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

A meeting of the Quraysh unbelivers in which Iblîs descloses a plan to...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

Library table. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Vestibolo d' antico Tempio.

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Battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863

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Company of colored troops - Public domain dedication image

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Dame Noble 1500-1510 d'après une tapisserie du temps, Musée de Cluny. ...

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[Shoe of silver brocade; shoe embroidered in white silk and silver bea...

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1854 [Women's fashion in nineteenth-century Paris]

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Plate 119-X. Small autoclave set in a gas furnace.

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DePeyster statue, Bowling Green, looking north on Broadway, Manhattan.

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Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan.

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Communion Wafer and Priest - Public domain dedication image

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Habit of Jane Seymour queen to K[ing] Henry VIII in 1536. Jeanne Seymo...

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Iris tuberosa, Pierre Joseph Redoute

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Back endpaper, flyleaf., France

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Polysiphonia urceolata. Botanical cyanotype contact print

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View of a group of Mohaves in a brush hut, one man very emaciated, ent...

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Fur industry: hat-making, Canadian voyageurs.

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View of Native Americans in a dwelling.

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The Riots In New York : The Mob Lynching A Negro In Clarkson-Street.

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Toilettes de soirées, d'apres le Journal des Dames. An X, an XI, an VI...

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Robinson Crusoe at dinner. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Gunsmith, 6 Centre Market Place, Manhattan.

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Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia

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James B. Duke townhouse, 1 East 78th Street, Manhattan.

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Habit of a Wiendot woman. Femme Wiendot.

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A Franciscan nun. Religieuse Franciscaine.

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Curiosity. La Curiosité. - Public domain historical image

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Lilium pyrenaicum, Pierre Joseph Redoute

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Allium obtusiflorum, Pierre Joseph Redoute

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Rosa Gallica Flore Marmoreo; Rosier de France a fleurs marbrees

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Bal de la courtille - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Paiute squaw - Yo Semite Valley. Indians of North America. Sterescope ...

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Cassiano Indian at San Antonio Mission, 136 years old.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

At the Rancherio, Mendocino County, California.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Don't be afraid, boys. - A group of children standing next to each oth...

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From Texas tenant farmer to California fruit tramp. Marysville, Calif....

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Caricature of Martin Luther as a wolf in monk's habit, with a small de...

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