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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Art Deco-style place card with an aviation theme used for a women's luncheon at the Madison College Club. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | A woman holds the monster knife and its sheath. Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after Potter's threatened duel with a Virg... |
| Date: | 1819 |
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| Description: | A commemorative handkerchief created by a wood engraving on white cotton fabric. The scene is the Manchester Reform Meeting, in England. A crowd of demonst... |
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| Description: | We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake But the community interests ought to come fir... |
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| Description: | I had to know the point to which the path was tracked and when the definition would cease to be my own |
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| Description: | She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here on the outer edge of worry It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice A ha... |
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| Description: | The Little Bluebirds — has anyone expressed it better than Judy Garland singing . . . why, oh why, can't I |
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| Description: | Way back in the soft center of hard times did not their resistance to change in the sentiment make some sense What could take the place of the... |
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| Description: | The arrangements Somebody takes care of it: planning the details, announcements, transportation, setting the tone, fitting all the likel... |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets wore them thin into retirement |
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| Description: | 200 years this tree grew here and so did I We were raised here and brought up young ones |
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| Description: | The style of reachings, temporal or spiritual, for transformation of the earth. The chapel of Rockford Female Seminary, later Rockford College, 1889-1892... |
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| Description: | I'll show you all the imported graces and you shall see New Fontainebleau |
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| Description: | Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger except the possible over-minding of their own manners or being out-voted by Activists |
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| Description: | As though the tree inclined lacked discipline, pruned of its working part |
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| Description: | Around the corner: the geography of childhood |
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| Description: | To some who want to leave it would be dull But to us who want to stay the moment is surprising: never lax only turning out of nowhere lastin... |
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| Description: | Patience we learned and requiem to rest the tense who die For we forgot the brazen earth in courtship of the sky |
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