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The Boulevards at Paris by William Henry Fox Talbot, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Boulevards at Paris

William Henry Fox Talbot (d. 1877)

May–June 1843 · Salted paper print from paper negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Business is Dull but He Can't Kick, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Business is Dull but He Can't Kick, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1890 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Bare Chance / Business is Dull But He Can't Kick, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Bare Chance / Business is Dull But He Can't Kick, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

ca. 1891 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

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Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle. Falco Washingtoniensis [current name: Bald Eagle. Haliaeetus leucocephalus], printing plate for "The Birds of America," 1827–38, plate XI

John James Audubon (d. 1851)

1827 · Printing plate: engraving, etching and aquatint on copper, nickel plated and filled with brass paint; second variant of engraved text

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No open reproduction

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Winter Hawk. Falco hyemalis [current name: Red-shouldered Hawk. Buteo lineatus], printlng plate for "The Birds of America," 1827–38, plate LXXI

John James Audubon (d. 1851)

1829 · Printing plate: engraving, etching and aquatint on copper, nickel plated and filled with brass paint

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No open reproduction

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Common Buzzard. Buteo vulgaris [current name: Swainson's Hawk. Buteo swainsoni], printing plate for "The Birds of America," 1827–38, plate CCCLXXII

John James Audubon (d. 1851)

[1837] · Printing plate: engraving, etching and aquatint on copper, nickel plated and filled with brass paint

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No open reproduction

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Woodcuts from Designs by Various Artists, Collected by Arthur Heseltine, 1873

Dalziel Brothers (d. 1893)

1860–73 · Wood engraving

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Oxen

Grueby Pottery (d. 1916)

ca. 1902–5 · Earthenware

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