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British Empire world map, 19th century

British Empire world map. This world map shows the 19th-century British Empire (pink) and its indigenous peoples. Five illustrations (clockwise from upper left) show the people of Australia, North America, southern Africa, Europe and Asia. Two tables (top left and top right) list the imperial possessions by area and population, with the totals being over 7 million square miles and nearly 165 million people. Some years of acquisition are also shown. This map was produced in the late 1850s by the Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew (1831-1893). Africa includes the 1856 route taken by the Scottish explorer David Livingstone

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Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, with bust-length

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, with bust-length portrait of Lincoln. Print showing a portrait of Lincoln with a letter that he is thought to have written to Mrs. Bixby on the loss of her sons in the Civil War. Date 1891. Date

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Abraham, Bixby, Bust Length, Letter, Lincoln, Mrs

Coat of Arms Calvert Lord Baltimore 18th century

Engraving of the Coat of Arms Calvert Lord Baltimore, item 104 of an 18th-century publication.Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 104. Calvert, Lord Baltimore. FATTI MASGHII, PAROLE FEMINE (Deeds are masculine, words are feminine). Baltimore is in County Longford, Ireland. Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore, was born in 1731. Cecelius Calvert, his great-great-grandfather, is sometimes called the founder of Maryland, USA. Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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