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Alexander, William, 1767-1816
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Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879
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Dadley, J
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Mason, George Henry
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McLean, T. (Thomas)
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Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the English: Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions
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Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after
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Shivery family papers, 1865-1974
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Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile
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The Sudan : a short compendium of facts and figures about the land of darkness
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Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co
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The Champlin Press
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Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro
And another good lady of deli…
They toil not indeed...
A plantation Christmas "fore …
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African life and customs.
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The manner of beheading
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The capital punishment of the…
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A malefactor conducted to exe…
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Conducting an offender into b…
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Close confinement
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Hamstringing a malefactor
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Burning a man's eyes with lime
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Torturing the fingers
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The rack
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Punishing an interpreter
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Punishing a boatman
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Twisting a man's ears
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An offender undergoing the ba…
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The African society and Miss …
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Modern Poetry, pages 16, 17, …
Mrs. Susan P. Reed
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Crowds outside the Lafayette …
A girl wife ; Belles of the v…
Hair - dressing as a work of …
1. Surgical knives ; 2. A bra…
Thatching with palm - leaf (b…
Skengas ; The "Maw - Afia."
Fine specimens of young manho…
Climbing a palm - tree for nu…
Town dieties, Adonta, near Aw…
Puddling clay preparatory to …
Ichi or tribal marks.
Native market, a busy scene.
The "Maw " (spirit) of a girl.
Playing okwe ; A native orche…
A strange passport ; A young …
An old Ibo woman, with aggry …
The Sudan: a short compendium…
A Pagan King in the Bautchi c…
Map of the Sudan.
A Sudanese.
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