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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
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Drops of water
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Bavaria, Germany - Prints
Date: 1967Reference: JDW/1/15/23Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Bavaria, Germany - Negatives
Date: 1967Reference: JDW/1/15/24Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Travel Letter book
Date: 13 - 21 Oct 1881Reference: WF/E/01/02/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Some farther proofs, whereby it appears that the Pretender is truly James the Third. To which is added. Among many other curious Articles, I. Two memorable Cases that happened in Germany and France. - With a Description of K. J-s's Q-'s Bed-Chamber. II. Abstract of a Letter, wrote in the Year 1697, from a Gentleman in England to his Friend at Paris. - With several Queries stated to some great Lawyers, and Answers thereto. III. Two notable poetical Pieces, and Three remarkable Ballads. IV. The Lives of Three very extraordinary Men, whose Actions will make them famous to all Posterity. The whole illustrated with notes and observations never before publish'd.
Burnet, Thomas, Sir, 1694-1753.Date: [1745]- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]