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adornment: comb
adornment: implement
adornment: knife, snow(model)
adornment: necklace
adornment: pin
Animal figurine
armament, ethnographic: knife
armament, firearm: gun, whaling harpoon
armament accessory, ethnographic: pouch, shot
armament accessory, ethnographic: sheath, knife
armament t&e, artillery: gun
armament t&e, firearm: blunderbuss
armament t&e, firearm: musket
awl?
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ceremonial artifact: carving
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Claret jug
clothing, footwear: moccasin
clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, cocked(tricorne)
clothing accessory: staybusk
Cocked hat
Coffee pot
Coin - halfpenny
commemorative artifact: flask
commemorative artifact: glass, wine
Crooked knife
Cup
Dioramic model
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Dividing model
documentary artifact: model, dioramic
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
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Drum
Embroidered panel for a waistcoat
exchange medium: manilla
Figurehead
fishing & trapping t&e: harpoon, whaling
Flask
food processing t&e: slicer, vegetable
food service t&e: bottle, gin
Freedom box
Full dress coat
Full hull model
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Gin bottle
Glass lantern slide
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Guillotine blade
Gun
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Identification band and key
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Kife sheath
Knife
Knife sheath
Leg-irons
lighting device: lantern, candle(emigrant safety)
Manilla
Map
MAP-SHEET
Mariner's astrolabe
Medal
medal, British: campaign medal: Capture of Louisbourg Medal 1758(l)
Medallion
medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
Medicine chest
Moccasin
mocotaugan
Model
mukutakan
musical t&e: drum
Musket
Necklace
Neck ring
needle case
not defined
Octant
original art: figurine, animal
original art: ornament
original art: panel
original art: sculpture: bust
Ownership bracelet
Painting
pair of collars
Panel
personal gear: box, tobacco
personal gear: stick, walking
personal symbol: coat of arms
personal symbol: coat of arms, Cork
personal symbol: crest
Pin cushion
Pipe
Pistol
Plank-on-frame
Plate
Powder horn
presentation artifact: box, freedom
presentation artifact: box, snuff
presentation artifact: goblet
presentation artifact: jug, claret
presentation artifact: kettle, tea
presentation artifact: tankard
Presentation Sword
Print
Restraining irons
Rigged model
Sails set
Seaman's testimonial
Sewn model
Sextant
Shaving brush
Shot pouch
Slave collar
Snuff box
Statuette
Staybusk
Steering compass
Sugar nippers
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant (Elton's)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Sword
Tankard
Tea kettle
Teapot with lid
Tobacco box
toilet article: brush, shaving
Token
Token - halfpenny
Tusk
Tusk section
Valance
Vegetable slicer
Walking stick
War medal
water transport: cargo vessel: slaver
water transport: cargo vessel: smuggler
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 20 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 32 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: brig ?
water transport: fighting vessel: brigantine (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: hunting vessel: whaler
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set: scenic)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: native craft: canoe, birch bark (Beothuk Indian)
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel: emigrant trade
water transport: passenger vessel: emigrant ship
water transport: sailing vessel: barque
water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted
water transport: sailing vessel: snow, brig
water transport: service vessel: troopboat
water transport: ship, 3 masted
water transport: unknown function: ship
water transport accessory: figurehead(bust)
Weight
Whale tooth
Whaling harpoon
Whaling harpoon gun
Whip
window/door covering: valance
Wine cooler
Wine glass
woodworking t&e: knife, canoe
Woolwork picture
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aquatint
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beaver felt
birch bark
bird quill
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bone
boxwood
brass
brass [fittings]
bristle
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bronze
canvas
caribou skin
coconut
coloured aquatint
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copper
copper-gilt
cotton
cowrie shell
earthenware
engraving
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engraving, etching
engraving, steel
etching
etching, acquatint and roulette
etching, coloured
etching, engraving and aquatint with publisher's colouring
etching, engraving and aquatint with publisher's watercolour
etching, engraving and letterpress
etching and engraving
etching and engraving with publisher's watercolour
etching with engraving
etching with engraving and publisher's colouring
etching with publisher's colouring
fruitwood
gelatin
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gilding
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glass
glass beads
gold
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hand-coloured
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hand-coloured lithograph
hand coloured
hippopotamus hide
ink and washes on paper mounted on card
iron
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leather
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linen
lithograph with publisher's colour
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mica
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pen and brown ink, with watercolour, over pencil
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quill
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sepia print
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silver wire
spruce
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steel [barrel]
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tin
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velvet
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whale tooth
white metal
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Ackermann, Rudolph
Adams, George
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Barnard, Edward
Barrow, J.
Baxter, George
Beastall, W. E.
Bluck, J.
Bonneville, François
Bowdich, Thomas Edward
British School
British School, 17th century
Brookes, William Tolley
Brunais, Agostino
Bry, Johann Theodor de
Buttersworth, Thomas
Chalon, Alfred Edward
Chamberlains & Co.
Clark, W.
Collyer, Josiah
Cooke, George
Cordon
Craig, William Marshall
Croad, S.
Cruikshank, George
Cruikshank, Isaac
Denton, W.
Deroi
Dodd, Robert
Duesbury, William
Eley, T.
Elmes, William
Emes, John
Engelmann & Cie
English School, 16th century
Fadon, William
Firmin & Sons Limited
Fores, S. W.
Gilbert & Sons
Giles, George
Gottfried
Grayfoot & Overton
Greener, W. W.
Hackwood, William
Halliday, Thomas
Hancock, Robert
Harris, John
Hatfield, A.
Hawksworth, J.
Heath, James
Hennell, David
Hennell, Robert
Hogarth, William
Holl
Holland, William
Holman, Francis
Hood, John
Houdon, Jean Antoine
Hudson, J.
Huggins, William John
Humphrey, George
Humphrey, H.
Hutchinson, S.
Infant School Depository
Infant School Society Depository
Jarvis, J.
John & William Barnard
John Askew
Junior, Edward Barnard
Kempson, Peter
Kersill, William
Kip, Johannes
Kirk, J.
Lobel, G.
Luny, Thomas
Macy, Benjamin
Maracle, Ken
Martin, Benjamin
Morgan, S.
Morland, after George
Moses, Henry
Mosley, Charles
Murray, John
Neele & Son
Orme, Daniel
Ouderogge, C.
Paton, after Richard
Paton, Richard
Peltro, John
Phillip, John
Phillips, James
Pickersgill, Henry William
Pidgeon, G. F.
Pingo, Thomas
Price's Patent Candle Co Ltd
Prieto, T. F.
Pugin, Augustus Charles
R. Wilson, R
Raimbach, Abraham
Ranson, Thomas Frazer
Reynolds, William
Robert Havell & Son
Robert Laurie & James Whittle
Room, H.
Rowlandson, Thomas
Rugendas, after J. M.
Russell, John
S., J.
Salmon, Robert
Sayer, James
Schofield, John
Serres, Dominic
Seymour, Robert
Shanawdithit, Nancy
Sibley, J.
Sibley, John
Smirke, Robert
Smith, George
Smith, John Raphael
Speed, John
Stadler, Joseph Constantine
Stennett, Ralph
Stuart
Symonds, H. D.
Teed, Richard
Tegg, Thomas
Testolini, Gaetano
Thomason, E.
Thurston, John
Tregear, Gabriel Shire
Turner, Charles
Unknown
Vanderbank, John
Van Hoytema & Co.
Vassa, Gustavas
Walker, Thomas
Wall, John
Wallis, Henry
West, Benjamin
White, B.
William Hackwood (circa 1757-1839) for Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)
William Kersill
Withers, Edward
Woollery, Edward
Woollett, Boydell & Rowlands
Woollett, William
Worthington, William Henry
Wyon, Peter
Wyon, Thomas
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Manitoba
Manitoba, Canada
Newfoundland, Canada, North America
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American War of Independence: Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782
American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782
Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588
Construction of British Fort at Crown Point, 1759
French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Niagara, 1759
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Seven Years' War: Battle of Lagos, 1759
Seven Years' War: Battle of Minden, 1759
Seven Years' War: Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759
Seven Years' War: Capture of Guadeloupe, 1759
Seven Years' War: Capture of Havana, 1762
Seven Years' War: Capture of Louisbourg, 1758
Seven Years' War: Capture of Quebec, 1759
Seven Years' War: Capture of Senegal, 1758
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Diadem fl.1782 (French navy)
Douro 1839
Earl of Mar and Kellie (1856)
El Almirante [Spanish]
Formidable (1777)
Formidable (fl.1834)
Glorieux (captured 1782)
Integrity fl.1787
Japan 1831
Namur (HMS)
Nonsuch 1774 (HMS)
Oliver Cromwell
Orion (1787)
Perseus (1776)
Polar Star 1759
Resolute 1879
Rose 1783 (HMS)
Royal George (1756)
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Royal William (1719)
Vigilante (ca.1822)
Ville de Paris (1764)
Ville de Paris fl.1782 (French navy)
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Broadsides! Caricature and the Navy 1775–1815
Enslavement and Resistance
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Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
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Assembly of Jamaica
Austin, James
Back, George
Barnard, John
Beastall, W. E.
Bedford, Frederick George Denham
Bonneville, François
Boscawen, Edward
Britannia
Brookes, William Tolley
Brunais, Agostino
Captain George Keppel
Carr, Lewis
Cavendish, Thomas
Chalon, Alfred Edward
Charles Robinson
City of Cork
Clarkson, Thomas
Co, Hudson Bay
Cooke, George
Cordon
Cruikshank, George
Cruikshank, Isaac
Denton, W.
Donatien, Jean-Baptiste
Downes, Henry
Drake, Francis
Duckworth, John Thomas
Duesbury, William
Elmes, William
English settlers
Fadon, William
Fores, S. W.
Foster, Robert Lionel
Free British Fishery Society
French Navy
Gibson, Captain John Edward
Gonzales, Vincentio
Green, Richard
Greenwich Pensioner
Halliday, Thomas
Hamilton, Emma
Hammick, A. R.
Hammick, R. F.
Hawkins, John
Heath, James
Hogarth, William
Holl
Hood, Alexander
Hugues, Victor
Humphrey, George
Humphrey, H.
Infant School Society Depository
Jackson, Robertfl
Jervis, John
J M Botibol
Jones, John Paul
Jones, W. M.
Keppel, Augustus
Keppel, George
Keppel Family
King George II
King George III
Kirk, J.
Knight, Gowin
Kongo Peoples
Lobel, G.
Lysons, Mary
Mackinnon, Arthur Avalon
MacKinnon, Ian K
Merchants of Kingston
Merchants of Quebec & Montreal
Miller, John
More, Hannah
Morgan, S.
Morland, after George
Nelson, Horatio
Newton, John
Olomu, Nana
Orme, Daniel
P. Henderson & Sons
Paul, François-Joseph
People of Martinique
Phillip, John
Phillips, James
Pidgeon, G. F.
Pingo, Thomas
Princess Pocahontas
Rear-Adm, 1783-1849, Collier, Francis Augustus, Sir,
Reed, P.
Rodney, George Brydges
Room, H.
Royal Navy
Royal United Service Institution
Russell, John
Sayer, James
Scott, Vice Matthew Henry
Seymour, Robert
Smith, John Raphael
Society of Bucks
Souter Johnstone, William
St Christopher's, Assembly of
Stuart
Symonds, H. D.
Symonds, Johnd
Symonds family
Tegg, Thomas
Testolini, Gaetano
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets
Thomason, E.
Thurston, John
Tregear, Gabriel Shire
Turner, Charles
Vassa, Gustavas
Velasco, Commfl
Wilberforce, William
William Hackwood (circa 1757-1839) for Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)
William Kersill
Wolfe, James
Woollery, Edward
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Musket
Map of Virginia, 1615 (Print)
Punch bowl (Bowl)
Sir John Hawkins, 1532-95 (Painting)
Dioramic model of the Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782 (Dioramic model/ Diorama)
Ivory model of an awl, creaser, or marlin spike used in working skins for clothes and boots or sinews for bows. (Model)
Guillotine blade (Guillotine blade)
Ivory model of a comb, probably from the Eastern Arctic (Model)
Embroidered panel for a waistcoat
Anti-slavery medal (Medal)
African Seaman's Testimonial (Seaman's testimonial)
Tusk section (Tusk section)
A Negro Woman's Lamentation (Print)
Neck ring (Neck ring)
Loango tusk (Tusk)
Akan gold weight (Weight)
The Effects of American Slavery, whipped for wanting to live a Christian life (Ceramic)
Akan knife and sheath (Knife)
Chicotte (Whip)
Single handcuff (Handcuff)
Anti-slavery halfpenny (Coin - halfpenny)
Akan gold weight (Weight)
Bracelet (Bracelet)
Snuff box (Snuff box)
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