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  • Tags: 19th Century

Coin

United States 1 cent.
Face: An eagle in free flight appears in the center, with the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" around the upper half of the coin. The date 1857 at bottom.
Back: A wreath of corn, cotton, wheat, and tobacco tied with a…

Tumbler

Color: blue/opalescent throughout.
Shape: cylindrical with straight walls. Flat rim. Flat base with around rim. Beneath is a horizontal band of 14 vertical bars that swirl to left at top and to the right at bottom. 3 horizontal bands of stars at…

Anchor

Part of Stock of Anchor of U. S. Congress Frigate, rectangular piece of wood consisting of many holes. Burnt by CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack, and persistently mid-identified by that name or as "Merrimac") off Newport News 3-8-1862. Wood was…

Trilobite

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Lower Cambrian. 28 millimeter adult. Collected 1880-1890's.

Photograph, Ambrotype

Photographic image on glass. Portrait of a man on 1/6th plate. Has black background painted on back. Unmounted.

Photograph, Ambrotype

Photographic image on glass. Portrait of a woman on a 1/6th plate. Unmounted.