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Social life and customs
African Americans
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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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Shivery family papers, 1865-1974
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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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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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James Madden
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Marshall brothers
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Printed for William Miller by William Bulmer and Co
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Wallach Division: Art & Architecture Collection
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Schomburg Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
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Schomburg Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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The rack
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