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Cabinet - Sources

Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Seal of Cyrus I
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Fanny's Chickens
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Insects
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Astronomical tower clocks
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Polish basket sellers
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Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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Anatomical engravings
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen (1606/1608)
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Geographies of collecting
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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A trip to the moon
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