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Paper with an image of a brick stepped pyramid containing 9 individual platforms each with a male figure. Each step is an allegory for a stage of life, the male figure on each step becomes progressively older moving from left to right. The pyramid starts on the left with a lush tree and a baby, on the right is an old man greeted by an angel in his coffin.

Ye Steps of Old Age: New Research, and New Beginnings

Glass flask covered with orange paper featuring a print of George Washington, the title “Washington,” and a poem in French.

Collecting a Liquid Library

Introduction to Material Life Papers

A close up photograph of knit fabric with two inverse hearts visible in the patterning.

Knitting in Nottingham: Hands-on Experience with Historic Knitting Frames

Figure 1. Painting of emperor on back of rearing white horse.

Southern Trip Discoveries: An Addendum to a Past Post- Moravians Were Copyists Far and Wide

Fig. 1. Façade of building in combination of log cabin architecture with Swiss chalet influences.

Stieglitz and Vanderbilt: A Tale of Two Alfreds in the Adirondacks

Figure 3. Painting of black horse facing left with river and mountain range in background.

At Belle Meade: A Plantation’s Foyer Serves as an Illustrated Catalog

Opulently decorated room with three chairs, fireplace, mirror, and chandelier.

“An Entirely New Note in Art”: Room Portraits in the Early-Twentieth Century

Two black servants carry a white woman in a hammock through a jungle. Two additional black servants carry baskets of fruit behind.

Laboring for Paradise

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