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    The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America

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    Chart of the Northern Passage between Asia & America

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    Below neatline right: Neele, Sculp. 352 Strand. Thomson's Atlas published in Edinburgh. See map 105:016M for another copy, undated. Shows Cook's tracks 1778-1779; McKenzie's River. Minimal Compass Rose.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper plate. Other Features: Explorer Tracks. Verso Text: MS note: No. 14.

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    Chart of the Northern Passage between Asia & America

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    Thomson's Atlas published in Edinburgh. Upper right: No. 74. See map 093:014M for another copy, dated 1816. Shows Cook's tracks 1778-1779; McKenzie's River. Minimal Compass Rose.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper plate. Other Features: Explorer Tracks. Verso Text: MS note: No. 16.

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    Photographs of plant and seed research in Asia and South America

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    Black-and-white photographs documenting agriculture and village life in Asia and South America, including in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Manchuria, North Korea, China, India, and Siberia. The photographs primarily focus on the relationship between villagers and agriculture and many of the images are related to farming, harvesting, transportation and commerce, as well as landscape views of farms, plantations, and groves, plants and trees, and town streets and buildings, indigenous dwellings, children, and townspeople. Aside from a set of 12 card photographs depicting scenes in Mexico in the late 1880s by photographer A. Briquet, the photographs are various size snapshots depicting: Costa Rica, ca. 1897 (4 photographs); locations in Asia, dating from 1905-1911 (49 photographs); the Sinaloa State in Mexico, 1918 (24 photographs); Peru, 1921 (21 photographs); Chile (66 photographs), 1921; Guatemala and Honduras, ca. 1924 (60 photographs); Saharanpur and Dehradun, India, ca. 1924 (27 photographs). Photographers are primarily unidentified.

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