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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, first London edition, with manuscript additions (1776)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, first London edition, with manuscript additions (1776)
Charles Cotton, Bond to the creditor who seized Beresford Hall (1663)
Charles Cotton, Bond to the creditor who seized Beresford Hall (1663)
Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, one of five known copies of the 1760 edition
Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, one of five known copies of the 1760 edition
Original linoleum cut by John Held for Frankie and Johnny (1915)
Original linoleum cut by John Held for Frankie and Johnny (1915)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, first London edition, with manuscript additions (1776)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, first London edition, with manuscript additions (1776)
Charles Cotton, Bond to the creditor who seized Beresford Hall (1663)
Charles Cotton, Bond to the creditor who seized Beresford Hall (1663)
Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, one of five known copies of the 1760 edition
Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, one of five known copies of the 1760 edition
Virgil Finlay, original art for H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider
Virgil Finlay, original art for H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider
Original linoleum cut by John Held for Frankie and Johnny (1915)
Original linoleum cut by John Held for Frankie and Johnny (1915)
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Roman Costumes (1817)
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Roman Costumes (1817)

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Lemuel Cox's labor contract for Londonderry Bridge, 1790

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Charles COTTON. Signed document (1663). A bond to the creditor who acquired Beresford Hall

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A slave sale mandated by the Louisiana Supreme Court

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The Family Muskat: Archives of an Orthodox Rabbi and his Father in Ohio and Florida, 1929-1936

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