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Cabinet - Sources

Saami woman
Image for PRM 1941.8.47
Plaque with note
Балаган (Центральная Азия)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 444-5)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
Image for PRM 2004.144.1
Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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Scales Narrative
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5. Mechanical clock
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Geber
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Russian men
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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