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Recipes and cross-stitch

Flavors and threads from Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Virginia : Williamsburg Rose and Thistle Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, 1994

General collection: TX715 .F5535 1994

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Looks like this little cook might be sharing a bit too much (3 images)

May we share with you ... Annandale, Virginia : Hope Lutheran Church, 1973

General collection: TX715 .M43 1973

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George du Maurier’s novel, with a Margaret Armstrong-designed cloth binding and interesting bleed-through of manuscript notes onto frontispiece (2 images)

Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. Trilby, a novel. New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894

Special Collections: PZ3.D887 T8

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Rising Sun Tavern and Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop, Fredericksburg, Virginia (2 images)

From: Fredericksburg, Virginia travel brochures

Visual Studies collection: C1:185 Virginia travel brochures

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Mount Vernon, 1928 (5 images)

From: An illustrated handbook of Mount Vernon, the home of Washington. [Mount Vernon, Virginia] : Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, c1928.

General collection: E312.5 .M782 1928

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Can we try this remedy first, instead of bleeding, to cure a quinsey (also known as a peritonsillar abscess)?

From: A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery. London : Printed for Mary Kettilby, 1724

Special Collections: TX705 .C65 1724

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Officially certified facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, illuminated by the coats of arms of the United States and of the original states. New York : The Holland Studio, Fifth Ave., N.Y., 1902

Special Collections: Broadside 1902 .U58 F

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Marbled endpaper

From: Sharp, Granville,1735-1813. A representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery, or of admitting the least claim of private property in the persons of men, in England. London : Printed for Benjamin White and Robert Horsefield, 1769

Special Collections: HT871 .S53 1769