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Cabinet - Sources

Russian man and boy
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Rembrandt, Self portrait
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Cricket
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Russian servant
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Botanical Gardens
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Lapis Philosophicus
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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