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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avril Adelaide, Australia multilith Great Chicago Fire leeching of a patient Ki-on-twog-ky, or Corn Plant[er], a Seneca Chief, lithograph from The History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836–44. Ney, Michel Strindberg, lithograph by Edvard Munch, 1896 Tah-Col-O-Quoit (Rising Cloud), a Sauk Warrior, lithograph by J.T. Brown, c. 1842.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avril
Adelaide, Australia
multilith
Great Chicago Fire
leeching of a patient
Ki-on-twog-ky, or Corn Plant[er], a Seneca Chief, lithograph from The History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836–44.
Ney, Michel
Strindberg, lithograph by Edvard Munch, 1896
Tah-Col-O-Quoit (Rising Cloud), a Sauk Warrior, lithograph by J.T. Brown, c. 1842.
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