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Cabinet - Sources

Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Bishops
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
Opium Banknote (Turkestan)
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Hierarchies
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Missions to China
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Lithograph of Lycksele
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Три военные фотографии Усмона Акрамова (Таджикистан)
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Timeline of voyages
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Telegrams
Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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