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Abû Jahl, Muhammad's most prominent opponent in Mecca, is angered at people of his tribe who will not listen to him.

Abû Jahl, Muhammad's most prominent opponent in Mecca, is angered at p...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

Abû Lahab and his followers hurl stones at Muhammad and Abû Bakr at the 'Ukâz Fair.

Abû Lahab and his followers hurl stones at Muhammad and Abû Bakr at th...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

[Peasants dancing] - A drawing of a group of people sitting around a table

[Peasants dancing] - A drawing of a group of people sitting around a t...

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Juan Sebastian de Elcano. - Public domain portrait engraving

Juan Sebastian de Elcano. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Representation du théatre ou l'on joue les comédies pour le divertissement du Roy de Tunquin et de son cour

Representation du théatre ou l'on joue les comédies pour le divertisse...

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Jean Baptiste Vanmour - La sultane asseki, ou sultane reine

Jean Baptiste Vanmour - La sultane asseki, ou sultane reine

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Sebastien Cabot explaining his discoveries to Henry VII.

Sebastien Cabot explaining his discoveries to Henry VII.

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Cunne Shote, the Indian chief, a great warrior of the Cherokee Nation.

Cunne Shote, the Indian chief, a great warrior of the Cherokee Nation.

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Habit of the mufti, or chief priest of the Turks, in 1749. Le moufti.

Habit of the mufti, or chief priest of the Turks, in 1749. Le moufti.

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Nancy Dawson. - Public domain portrait engraving

Nancy Dawson. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Juan de Torquemada. - Public domain portrait engraving

Juan de Torquemada. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Jean Baptiste Madou - Bal masque

Jean Baptiste Madou - Bal masque

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Canadian minuets (social dancing)

Canadian minuets (social dancing)

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The ball room - A group of people standing in a room

The ball room - A group of people standing in a room

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Le Moulinet, or practising quadrille dancing at home for fear of accidents at the ball

Le Moulinet, or practising quadrille dancing at home for fear of accid...

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[Contredanses] L'anglaise - Public domain  drawing

[Contredanses] L'anglaise - Public domain drawing

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Ballroom dancing on British and American 19th-century music covers

Ballroom dancing on British and American 19th-century music covers

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Les heures de la nuit - A drawing of a woman in a fancy dress

Les heures de la nuit - A drawing of a woman in a fancy dress

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Galla Females, highlands of Ethiopia

Galla Females, highlands of Ethiopia

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polka as danced by Madlle. Grisi, & Monsr. Perrot. Arranged by B. Tolbecque for the piano forte. A. Ashley delt. J. Bingley sc.

polka as danced by Madlle. Grisi, & Monsr. Perrot. Arranged by B. Tolb...

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Harvest dance - A black and white drawing of a group of dancers

Harvest dance - A black and white drawing of a group of dancers

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Eine Schwedische Bauern-Hochzeit

Eine Schwedische Bauern-Hochzeit

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Le bal Mabile, Champs-Elysées (social dancing)

Le bal Mabile, Champs-Elysées (social dancing)

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Schamyl, portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

Schamyl, portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

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Berberi playing on the kisirka - An open book with a picture of a woman and a man

Berberi playing on the kisirka - An open book with a picture of a woma...

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Teyat (oilman), his shop and customers at Cairo

Teyat (oilman), his shop and customers at Cairo

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Photo of Women of middle Egypt - Public domain dedication

Photo of Women of middle Egypt - Public domain dedication

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Bedouins from the vicinity of Suez

Bedouins from the vicinity of Suez

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Madame Celeste as Miami in Mr. Buckstone's drama of The green bushes.

Madame Celeste as Miami in Mr. Buckstone's drama of The green bushes.

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Ad Augusta Maywood Ravenna plaudente, 1852.

Ad Augusta Maywood Ravenna plaudente, 1852.

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[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of a chair]

[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of ...

Title devised by library staff. Date of photograph based on years photographer Harvey B. Lindsley was active and Tubman's clothing. (Source: researcher A. Cohn, 2016) Original photo not found in LOT since at le... More

Sec. of War Simon Cameron, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Sec. of War Simon Cameron, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...

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Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathew Brady.

Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathe...

Original Caption: Miss Clara Barton..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-1857..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..Photographer: B... More

Trajes mexicanos, un Fandango = Costumes mexicains = Mexican dresses.

Trajes mexicanos, un Fandango = Costumes mexicains = Mexican dresses.

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Charles Dickens, as Captain Bobadill from a picture by C.R. Leslie, R.A.

Charles Dickens, as Captain Bobadill from a picture by C.R. Leslie, R....

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Playing Checkers: after Richard Creifelds

Playing Checkers: after Richard Creifelds

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Ein mekkanischer Arzt, dessen Sohn, Kinder aus der Familie der Benî Schêbah [Bani Shaybî] (Thorhüter der Ka‘bah) und ein Sèjjid in Mekka.

Ein mekkanischer Arzt, dessen Sohn, Kinder aus der Familie der Benî Sc...

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Snake-charmers in India page 182

Snake-charmers in India page 182

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Carib Indians making Baskets, Dominica

Carib Indians making Baskets, Dominica

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Jamaicans Carrying Bananas - Breadfruit-Tree Overhead

Jamaicans Carrying Bananas - Breadfruit-Tree Overhead

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On the beach - Public domain  print

On the beach - Public domain print

Photograph shows portrait of young woman wearing turn-of-the-century bathing suit, posed holding unidentifiable product. Copyrighted 1901 by Eddowes Bros. N.Y.

Group photograph captioned 'Hungarian Gypsies all of whom were deported' in The New York Times, Sunday Feb. 12, 1905

Group photograph captioned 'Hungarian Gypsies all of whom were deporte...

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Passed and waiting to be taken off Ellis Island.

Passed and waiting to be taken off Ellis Island.

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Florence Lawrence... - Public domain portrait print

Florence Lawrence... - Public domain portrait print

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American suffragists, 1911. - A group of women standing next to each other holding american flags

American suffragists, 1911. - A group of women standing next to each o...

7JCC/O/02/077.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a group of five women holding American flags; printed caption on reverse 'The United States of America will be well represented in the procession of Suffrag... More

Photograph of Harriet Tubman - An old woman sitting in a chair with a dog

Photograph of Harriet Tubman - An old woman sitting in a chair with a ...

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Young Fijian warriors. - A group of people standing next to each other

Young Fijian warriors. - A group of people standing next to each other

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Women Marching in Suffragette Parade, Washington, DC

Women Marching in Suffragette Parade, Washington, DC

Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life

Eia Imperatorskoe Velichestvo Gosudarynia Imperatritsa Aleksandra Feodorovna i Ikh Imperatorskia Vysochestva Velikia Kniazhny Olga Nikolaevna i Tatiana Nikolaevna no. 25, p. 21

Eia Imperatorskoe Velichestvo Gosudarynia Imperatritsa Aleksandra Feod...

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Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in a scene from The Homesteader

Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in a scene from The Homesteader

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL

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W. W. Browne, Founder of the True Reformers.

W. W. Browne, Founder of the True Reformers.

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Ladies of fashion, Qing Dynasty

Ladies of fashion, Qing Dynasty

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Skirts, trouser, draperies - Egypt

Skirts, trouser, draperies - Egypt

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Fashionable ladies - Egypt

Fashionable ladies - Egypt

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A moment from the Rhapsody in Blue ballet, created and staged by Madame Rasch for a company of her girls, who performed it in the Keith theaters

A moment from the Rhapsody in Blue ballet, created and staged by Madam...

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George Washington Carver - Public domain portrait engraving

George Washington Carver - Public domain portrait engraving

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Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Bend, Alabama, May 1939.

Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Ben...

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Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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Two of the first twelve people converted to Islam from Medina kiss the hands of the Prophet at Akaba.

Two of the first twelve people converted to Islam from Medina kiss the...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

Habit of a nobleman of Rome. Ancien noble Romain.

Habit of a nobleman of Rome. Ancien noble Romain.

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Habit of a merchant of Arabia in 1568. Merchant Arabe.

Habit of a merchant of Arabia in 1568. Merchant Arabe.

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Dreissigjäriger Krieg.  Arkabusier zu Pferd, Trompeter, Fähnrich, Officier, Musketier, Pikenier. 1630

Dreissigjäriger Krieg. Arkabusier zu Pferd, Trompeter, Fähnrich, Offi...

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Morning habit of a lady of quality in Barbary in 1700. Dame de la Côte de Barbarie en robe du Matin.

Morning habit of a lady of quality in Barbary in 1700. Dame de la Côte...

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Habit of Moorish pilgrims returning from Mecca in 1568. Pelerins Maures revenant del Mecque.

Habit of Moorish pilgrims returning from Mecca in 1568. Pelerins Maure...

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George the Third, king of Great Britain, etc. etc. etc.

George the Third, king of Great Britain, etc. etc. etc.

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Les premières occupations du matin [above]; Quêteurs; Voeu d'une messe demandée comme aumône [below].

Les premières occupations du matin [above]; Quêteurs; Voeu d'une messe...

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Market woman, Brazil. - Public domain portrait photograph

Market woman, Brazil. - Public domain portrait photograph

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Habit of a gentleman of Wallachia. Gentilhomme Valaque.

Habit of a gentleman of Wallachia. Gentilhomme Valaque.

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Henry Bryan Hall - His Excellency Samuel Adams Esqr.

Henry Bryan Hall - His Excellency Samuel Adams Esqr.

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A Santon or Religious Fanatic - Sketches of character and costume in Constantinople

A Santon or Religious Fanatic - Sketches of character and costume in C...

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Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans.

Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans.

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A labourer of drawing water. - A group of men standing around pots and pans

A labourer of drawing water. - A group of men standing around pots and...

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Robes - The history of the feminine costume of the world

Robes - The history of the feminine costume of the world

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Fashionable ladies.

Fashionable ladies.

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Skirts - The history of the feminine costume of the world

Skirts - The history of the feminine costume of the world

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Fashionable ladies, Greece

Fashionable ladies, Greece

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Coats coat of arms, Greece

Coats coat of arms, Greece

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Fashionable ladies., Qing Dynasty

Fashionable ladies., Qing Dynasty

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The history of the feminine costume of the world. The beautiful lines of the Greek costumes .

The history of the feminine costume of the world. The beautiful lines ...

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Coats coat of arms

Coats coat of arms

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Habit of an Englilsh nobleman in 1559. Noble Anglais.

Habit of an Englilsh nobleman in 1559. Noble Anglais.

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Habit of a German officer in 1588. Officier Allemand.

Habit of a German officer in 1588. Officier Allemand.

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Habit of a nobleman of England in 1640. Noble Anglois.

Habit of a nobleman of England in 1640. Noble Anglois.

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Anthony van Dyck - Habit of and English gentleman in 1640. Gentilhomme Anglois.

Anthony van Dyck - Habit of and English gentleman in 1640. Gentilhomme...

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Habit of a lady in the highlands of Scotland in 1745. Dame des Montagnes d'Ecosse.

Habit of a lady in the highlands of Scotland in 1745. Dame des Montagn...

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William Hogarth - The House of Commons

William Hogarth - The House of Commons

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Woman Swearing a Child to a grave Citizen

Woman Swearing a Child to a grave Citizen

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Red Stockings of Cincinnati, 1869. C. Hurley, Sub.; G. Wright, S.S.; Mcvey, R .F. ; Leonard, L. F.; Sweasy, 2nd B.; Waterman, 3rd B.; H. Wright, C. F.; Brainard, P.; Gould, 1st B.

Red Stockings of Cincinnati, 1869. C. Hurley, Sub.; G. Wright, S.S.; M...

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Dresses, History of Second Polish Republic

Dresses, History of Second Polish Republic

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Dresses - The history of the feminine costume of the world

Dresses - The history of the feminine costume of the world

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Dresses - The history of the feminine costume of the world

Dresses - The history of the feminine costume of the world

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Habit of one of the guards to the king of Morocco in 1695. Garde du roi de Moroc.

Habit of one of the guards to the king of Morocco in 1695. Garde du ro...

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Habit of an Armenian native of Persia in 1700. Armenian natif de Perse.

Habit of an Armenian native of Persia in 1700. Armenian natif de Perse...

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A Janissary in his full dress in 1700. Janissaire enhabit de ceremonie.

A Janissary in his full dress in 1700. Janissaire enhabit de ceremonie...

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Habit of a Russian girl in 1764. Fille Russe.

Habit of a Russian girl in 1764. Fille Russe.

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The Author run Mad [A Satire on Hogarth, by Paul Sandby]

The Author run Mad [A Satire on Hogarth, by Paul Sandby]

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Founding fathers. Roger Sherman.

Founding fathers. Roger Sherman.

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Habit of an Ottawa an Indian Nation of North America. Indien de la Nation Ottawa dans L'Amerique septentrional.

Habit of an Ottawa an Indian Nation of North America. Indien de la Nat...

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Blaise de Montluc, marshal of France. Blaise de Montluc Maréchal de France.

Blaise de Montluc, marshal of France. Blaise de Montluc Maréchal de Fr...

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