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Timberline Lodge

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The world press gathers for the first summit between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin

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The View of Cruger's Island From Miramonte

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Framed oil painting of the landscape as viewed from Miramonte

The USS Iowa, 1943

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The Underground Railroad: a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road

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illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and portraits from photographs from life

The trial of Theodore Parker : for the "misdemeanor" of a speech in Faneuil Hall against kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855 / with the defence by Theodore Parker.

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The start of an historic summit meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

The Skyscrapers

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The fruits of the PWAP were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in 1934. The Roosevelt family attended the exhibition, and Eleanor personally choose a number of paintings to purchase. “The Skyscapers,” one of the paintings chosen by Mrs. Roosevelt,…

The Republican Party Vindicated-the Demands of the South Explained: Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, at the Cooper Institute, New York City

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The New Gate Lodge at Blithewood

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This image is an enlargement of an engraving of the Blithewood Gatehouse designed by A.J. Davis from an edition of A.J. Downing’s Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Rural Architecture and Landscape Gardening. Interestingly, Downing describes…