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200 public-domain plates · 11th century to 21st century · 4958 attributed
200 works from the Digital Public Library of America open-access programme, each explicitly placed in the public domain by the museum and stored here with its rights field and verbatim rights statement spanning the 11th century to 21st century. Free to download and reuse. Of these, 4958 carry a named artist or maker.
Artists & makers in this set
- Nearctic 1593
- [Not Stated] 401
- G. F. Knowlton 170
- Palaearctic 169
- L. C. Bragg 134
- Thomas A. Williams 105
- Oceanian 96
- R. W. Hodges 75
Subjects covered
Museum sources
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Geological map of Sevier County, Tenn. (1841)
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Geological map of Davidson, Williamson and Maury Counties (1843)
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Geological map of Cocke County, Tennessee (1839)
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Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus
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Map of the Ocoee District (1837)
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Geological map of the State of Tennessee
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Walters Ms. W.21, Collection of texts by Solinus, Orosius, Pseudo-Alexander, Justinus, and Walter of Châtillon
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World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893
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World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893
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World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
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Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
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Ellwood Chappell Perisho
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Plate XXI: Bismuth Ores, Uranium Ores, Titanium Ores, Tantalum Ores, Wolfram Ores
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Plate II: Topaz, Garnet, Vesuvian, Idocrase, Chrysolite, Olivine, Pistacite, Epidote, Turquoise, Johnite, Calamite, Lazulite, Lapis Lazuli
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Plate XXII: Molybdenum Ores, Chrome Ores, Antimony Ores, Arsenic Ores
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Plate XX: Galena, Cerussite, Anglesite, Pyromorphite, Molybdate, Chromate, Tin Ore, Zinc Ores
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Plate XI: Fluor Spar, Baryta Compounds, Strontia, Salts of Potash and Soda, Borate of Magnesia
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Plate XVII: Nickel, Cobalt, Iron
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Plate V: Kyanite, Disthene, Staurolite, Andalusite, Tourmaline, Dichorite, Peliom, Augite, Hornblende, Amphibole, Hypersthene, Mountain Wood, Serpentine, Ophite, Omphacite
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Plate X: Aragonite, Spar, Gypsum, Anhydrite, Apatite, Fluor Spar
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Plate I: Diamond, Sapphire and Ruby, Chrysoberyl, Spinel, Zircon, Hyacinth, Beryl, and Emerald
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Plate VII: Zeolitic Minerals, Carbonaceous Limestone
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Boundary Dam Materials - Piles of pummaceous (pumiceous?) material from Test Pit No. 2
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Plate XIX: Iron Ores, Hausmannite
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Plate XVIII: Pyrites, Magnetic Iron, Iron-Glance, Iron Ores
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Plate XII: Sulphur, Honey-Stone, Graphite, Coal, Lignite
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Plate XIV: Native Silver, Antimonial Silver, Sulphuret of Silver, Glance and Red Silver Ore
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Plate XIII: Gold, Platinum, Iridium
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Plate XV: Mercury, Quicksilver, Copper Ore
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Plate A: Planes of Crystals and Separate Crystalline Forms
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Plate IV: Quartz and Opal
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Plate XVI: Copper, Malachite
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Centennial Exposition of 1876, Philadelphia
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Plate IX: Carbonates of Lime, Marble
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Plate VIII: Marbles
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Plate VI: Felspathic Minerals and Rocks, Micaceous Minerals, Granite
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Plate III: Quartz
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Metallotheca : Opus Posthumum
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Figures 68-76: The Great Diamonds of the World (Natural Size)
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Plate B: Modifications of Crystalline Planes, Axes of Crystals, Optical Phenomena of Crystals
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Boundary Dam Materials - Piles of silty sand from Test Pit No. 2
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - Material in BT-15, Borrow Area D
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The Mineral Kingdom
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - Material in BT-11, Borrow Area D
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - Material in BT-8, Borrow Area D
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - Material in BT-7, Area C
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Boundary Dam Materials - Material from Test Pit No. 1
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - Examining material found on the Northwest slope of Carr Butte, California
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - showing black gravel on the Northwest slope of Carr Butte, California
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - showing black gravel on the Northwest slope of Carr Butte, California
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - Carr Butte area, California
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Boundary Dam Materials Investigation - showing material found at the Northwest slope of the Carr Butte, California
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Musaeum Metallicum in Libros IIII
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Chromite in Wood Mine
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Slip face and clay gouge, Wood Chromite Mine
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Chromite in Wood Mine
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Wood's Chrome Mines
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Looking south from Wood's Chrome pit
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Quartz crystals from Pocono Formation
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Quartz crystals from Pocono Formation
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Barite locality
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Wood's Chrome Mines
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Chromite area
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Typical spar-microcline and orthoclase
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Wavellite pits and dumps
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Serpentine quarry
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Lecture no. 06 on Mineralogy
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Mineralogy Laboratory
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Plate 12, Hemisphaerica Spharium
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Armco Bulletin, October 1914
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Armco Bulletin, January 1924
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Armco Bulletin, March 1929
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Armco Bulletin, October 1928
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[Pictorial lettersheets of Dr. William A. Hammond's Sanitarium for Diseases of the Nervous System, Fourteenth Street and Sheridan Avenue, Washington, D.C.]
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Powell's Practical Advertiser
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Armco Bulletin, August 1920
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Speaking For Every Army Nurse
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Armco Bulletin, February 1919
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Armco Bulletin, June 1918
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Armco Bulletin, July 1923
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Dr. Thomas Dimsdale
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Armco Bulletin, June 1920
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Armco Bulletin, January 1920
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Armco Bulletin, October 1920
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Armco Bulletin, March - April 1922
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Armco Bulletin, September - October 1921
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Armco Bulletin, November - December 1922
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Armco Bulletin, May 1920
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Armco Bulletin, June 1919
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Armco Bulletin, November - December 1921
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The Vital Question Cook Book
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Armco Bulletin, July 1920
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Armco Bulletin, April 1920
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Armco Bulletin, November 1918
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Professor [Emil von] Behring
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Benjamin Jesty
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Armco Bulletin, June 1921
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Armco Bulletin, March 1920
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Armco Bulletin, May - June 1922
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Armco Bulletin, November 1920
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Armco Bulletin, September 1919
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Armco Bulletin, October 1919
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Armco Bulletin, September 1920
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Armco Bulletin, June 1916
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Armco Bulletin, July 1919
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The Doctor...In Shirt Sleeves
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Louis Pasteur
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Armco Bulletin, January 1919
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Armco Bulletin, February 1918
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Armco Bulletin, January 1921
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Armco Bulletin, January - February 1922
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Armco Bulletin, January 1918
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Armco Bulletin, April 1919
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Armco Bulletin, July - August 1921
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The Chicken is First!
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Armco Bulletin, December 1919
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Armco Bulletin, November 1919
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'Tabloid' Medical Equipments at the North Pole
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Armco Bulletin, March 1918
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A 'Scientist' in His Own Right!
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A Religious Dramatic Representation of the Power of the [Hindu] Goddess of Smallpox
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Armco Bulletin, February 1920
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Aces high over the clouds : march Ed. Roberts
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Snowy Egrets Watched the Men in the Marsh
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Darby and Joan / words by F. E. Weatherly music by J. L. Molloy
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Bird's Eye View of Minneapolis, Minn.
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Exhibition of Insects, West Range, Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle
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Exhibition of Insects, West Range, Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle
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Plate XIII: Animalcules of the teeth; scabies/skin/lice/snake tooth and various insects under magnification
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Plate No. 20: Poisonous Reptiles and Insects
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[Nature prints of leaves]
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Portrait of John Dalton
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Heritiera Tinctorum
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Allium Cernuum
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Allium Tataricum
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Anthericum Annuum
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Allium Ursinum
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Tofieldia Palustris
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Polygonatum Latifolium
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Figures 136-148. Plate Electrical Machines
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L.N. Rosenthal. Lithographic office, removed to N.W. cor. of Fifth & Chestnut Sts. Philadelphia
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Armco Bulletin, July - August 1922
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts metropolitan water district/Wachusett, Sudbury and Cochituate watersheds
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Electrical wiring diagram for doorbells
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Medicine for the Millions!
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Figure 4. General View of a Slow Sand Filter Plant
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Daily weather map
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Students gather around a teacher who is conducting a scientific experiment
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Percentage composition of foods
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Percentage composition of foods
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Plate IV: Chemistry of Geology
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Portrait of Louis Pasteur and his granddaughter, Camille Vallery-Radot
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Universal Physical Laboratory Supports
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Intermediate Text Book of Chemistry
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Figure 40. Aytoun's Patent Safety Cage
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How a Furnace Heats a House
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Figure 382. Bactrian Camel
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The Furnace and How it Works
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Figure 15. Craigleith Quarry
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Figure 405. Hunting the Bison
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Periodic table in style of helix drawn on one cylinder
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Periodic table in style of helix drawn on one cylinder
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Figure 360. African Elephant. Figure 361. Asiatic Elephant
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Spectrum of sodium / Solar spectrum / Action of prism on simple rays
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Figure 35. A Coal Pit worked by Women, as described by Mr. Scriven in "Blue Book"
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Figure 383. A Caravan. Camels Being Loaded
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Figure 52. Women at Work
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Figure 220. African Ostrich
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Series table of representative elements with supplementary tabulations for transitional and rare earth elements
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Figure 473. Proboscis Monkey. Figure 474. Sacred Monkey
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Figure 203. The Tapping of the Blast Furnace
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Periodic table in style of spiral with four revolutions
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Periodic table in style of helix and space lemniscate with two additional loops for rare earth elements
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Plant Life
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Fog tracks from radium
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Periodic table in style of helix and space lemniscate with two additional loops for rare earth elements
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Periodic table in style of spiral with radii
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Figure 247. Wood Ibis. Figure 248. Great Blue Heron
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How Coal Burns
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Figure 14. Fossil Trees discovered in making one of the Railway Cuttings between Manchester and Bolton
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Step table with spiral design
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Figure 41. Men and Boys "coming to Bank"
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Figure 343. Star-nosed Mole. Figure 344. Colugo. Figure 345. Skeleton of a Bat
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Figure 266. Caracara Eagle. Figure 267. Goshawk. Figure 268. Sparrow Hawk
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Figure 309. Porcupine Ant-eater. Figure 310. Opossum
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Figure 36. The Horse Gin used for drawing Coals, &c.
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Figure 49. The Putters at work
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Left-step series table designed by Dmitri Mendeleev
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Figure 42. Descent into a Coal Mine
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Figure 238. Wood, or Summer, Duck. Figure 239. Canada, or Wild, Goose. Figure 240. Trumpeter Swan
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