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    Toasts for All Occasions (1903)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture

    Toasts for All Occasions (1903)

    Illustrations from a Teenage Holiday Journal (1821)
    Images / 
    People, Customs & Culture

    Illustrations from a Teenage Holiday Journal (1821)

    The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (1765)
    Books / 
    Politics, Travel & Exploration, Customs & Culture

    The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (1765)

    The Relaxed Wife (1957)
    Film / 
    Customs & Culture, Drugs

    The Relaxed Wife (1957)

    Nekrokēdeia or The Art of Embalming (1705)
    Books / 
    Death, Customs & Culture

    Nekrokēdeia or The Art of Embalming (1705)

    America, a Personification (ca. 1590)
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    People, Politics, Customs & Culture

    America, a Personification (ca. 1590)

    Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)
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    Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture, Technology

    Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

    Recordings of Pygmy Music from the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission
    Audio / 
    Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Recordings of Pygmy Music from the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission

    Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)
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    People, Fashion, Customs & Culture

    Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)

    James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)
    Audio / 
    Customs & Culture

    James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)

    A Pictorial History of Santa Claus
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Fashion, Customs & Culture

    A Pictorial History of Santa Claus

    Plates from a History of the Carriby Islands (1666)
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    Animals & Beasts, Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Plates from a History of the Carriby Islands (1666)

    German Folk Dress (1887)
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    People, Fashion, Customs & Culture

    German Folk Dress (1887)

    Freedom Highway (1956)
    Film / 
    People, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Freedom Highway (1956)

    Hand Book of the Carnival, Containing Mardi-Gras, its Ancient and Modern Observance (1874)
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    Customs & Culture

    Hand Book of the Carnival, Containing Mardi-Gras, its Ancient and Modern Observance (1874)

    Labors of the Months from the Très Riches Heures
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    Customs & Culture

    Labors of the Months from the Très Riches Heures

    Yuletide Entertainments (1910)
    Books / 
    Religion, Myth & Legend, Customs & Culture

    Yuletide Entertainments (1910)

    Kitab al-Bulhan or Book of Wonders (late 14th C.)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Customs & Culture

    Kitab al-Bulhan or Book of Wonders (late 14th C.)

    Superstitions About Animals (1904)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Superstitions About Animals (1904)

    Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
    Books / 
    Death, Customs & Culture

    Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658)

    The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)
    Books / 
    Death, Customs & Culture

    The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)

    The Book of Topiary (1904)
    Books / 
    Architecture, Natural World, Customs & Culture

    The Book of Topiary (1904)

    Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture

    Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)