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Cabinet - Sources

Houses and totem poles in Masset (glass negative)
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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A box for going to sea?
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Models of Saami women
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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​Boats on the Torne river
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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