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A mysterious, undeciphered manuscript dating to the 15th or 16th century.

Photographs recalling popular divertissements, including minstrel shows, vaudeville, and burlesque.

Jewish marriage contracts ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs documenting the life and career of Edith Wharton.

Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and card photographs depicting black life from the 1850s-1940s.

Eleven letters between the American authors and social activists Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Richard Wright.

A model book for scribes by Gregorius Bock, ca. 1510-1517.






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