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Front cover of a pamphlet tiled: Thompson plan for people’s ownership and operation of street railway systems... Gift of Robert S. Gruhn .

Bookplate of Stuyvesant Peabody, circa 1930.

Embossed front cover of Sporting society : or, Sporting chat and sporting memories... edited by Russell Fox. Gift of Anita Peabody.

Black and white engraved illustration from The Sporting magazine showing female archers at Hatfield. Gift of Anita Peabody.

Fold-out engraved black and white illustration of a pineapple from Spectacle de la nature.., opposite page 212. Transferred from St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary, Perryville, MO.

Hand colored aquatint of Lion de Waterloo, a monument erected at the site of the famous battle. From Souvenir de Waterloo, oblong quarto book, with thirteen hand colored aquatints by Joseph Arnold Pingret and others. First and only edition of a very…

Color illustration from Slipper’s ABC of fox hunting. Facing text reads: “G stands for Geese. Look at Gollagher now,And Himself in the think of a Family Row!”
Gift of Anita Peabody.

Black and white illustrated front cover of Sketches of young gentlemen: dedicated to the young ladies by Charles Dickens.

Black and white wood engraving. Poem above, titled Spring, reads: "Enamour's more, as more remembrance swells with many a proof of recollected love, together they sink into social sleep; together freed, their gentle spirits fly to scenes where love…

Color illustrated front cover of Samantha among the colored folks by Marietta Holley.