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Bird’s Eye View of Garfield, New Jersey, 1909
This panoramic map shows a view of Garfield, New Jersey, as it appeared in 1909. Garfield was originally known as East Passaic, but later was named in honor of U.S. President James Garfield. The map...
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Bird’s Eye View of Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1881
This panoramic map shows Asbury Park, New Jersey, as it appeared in 1881. The ocean is shown at the bottom of the map, with the town extending away from the shoreline. Asbury Park was established in...
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The United States According to the Definitive Treaty of Peace Signed at...
On August 9, 1783, Philadelphia mapmaker William McMurray placed an advertisement in the Pennsylvania Packet, a Philadelphia newspaper, for a map entitled The United States According to the Definitive...
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Fort Reno, Oklahoma Territory, 1891
This panoramic map shows Fort Reno, Oklahoma Territory, as it appeared in 1891. Fort Reno was established as a U.S. military camp in 1874 during the American Indian Wars, and was named in honor of...
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The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, Commonly Called the...
William Faden, a noted English publisher who specialized in maps and prints, published The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, Commonly Called the Jerseys in 1777. The map is often...
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Aero View of Middletown, Connecticut, 1915
This panoramic map shows Middletown, Connecticut, as it appeared in 1915. Located along the Connecticut River, Middletown was originally known as Mattabeseck, the American Indian name for the area....
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Wyandotte, Michigan, 1896
This panoramic map shows Wyandotte, Michigan, as it appeared in 1896. The city was built on land originally home to an American Indian tribe called the Wyandot. The map shows the city on the bank of...
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The Haftarah
This illuminated, undated codex thought to date from the 18th century consists of a Haftarah (also seen as Haftorah) in 263 parchment sheets stitched together in a leather binding. In the Jewish...
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Fragment of the Picatrix
The document presented here is a two-page fragment of the work known in medieval Europe as the Picatrix. This was a book of astronomy, astrology, mystical and occult knowledge, alchemy, and magic...
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Advertisement of a Reward for the Apprehension of the Organizers of the...
Presented here is an advertisement, issued by the local Hungarian authorities, calling for the arrest of the leaders of the Slovak uprising of 1848‒49, Ľudovít Štúr (1815‒56), Michal Miloslav Hodža...
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Letter from Robert William Seton-Watson to Svetozar Hurban-Vajanský, 1908
Shown here is a letter dated June 15, 1908, from British historian and journalist R.W. [Robert William] Seton-Watson (1879‒1951) to Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847‒1916), a Slovak writer, journalist,...
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Vesperae Bachanales
Pantaleon Roškovský (1734‒89) was a Slovak composer, organist, and teacher. Originally from Stará Ľubovňa, he entered the Franciscan order in 1755 and was ordained as a priest in Trnava in 1759. He...
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Shepherd's Harmony
As a young man, the composer, organist, and copyist Georgius (also seen as Jozef) Juraj Zrunek (1736–89) became a member of the Franciscan order, where he excelled as a music teacher. He worked...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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Recipients of the Cross of Saint George, Awarded with the Highest Military...
This photograph is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned...
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