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An Actor Hams It Up For Fun Portraits in 1872

An Actor Hams It Up For Fun Portraits in 1872

In 1872 pantomime actor Fawdon Vokes posed for a fabulous series of portraits ...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Dreams Of Early 20th Century France

Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Dreams Of Early 20th Century France

Between 1907 and 1914, art collector Antonin Personnaz took lush autochrome pictures of France's Oise Valley ...
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The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

I love dispatch I strike at once The wit, the wise, the fool, the dunce; ...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Camping – 1920

Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Camping – 1920

Hemingway's guide to knowing black flies and mosquitoes, and recipes for a successful camping trip ...
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The First Photos of Chernobyl After The Nuclear Disaster – April 26 1986

The First Photos of Chernobyl After The Nuclear Disaster – April 26 1986

In 1986 Igor Kostin flew over the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant taking photographs ...
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Steampunk Illustrations from Albert Robida’s Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique (The Electric Life), 1893

Steampunk Illustrations from Albert Robida’s Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique (The Electric Life), 1893

The ultimate steampunk holy grail: ‘Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique’, the science fiction book written and illustrated by French author Albert Robida ...
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Masks, Refugees and Vagabond: Kati Horna’s Revealingly Surreal Photographs

Masks, Refugees and Vagabond: Kati Horna’s Revealingly Surreal Photographs

Kati Horna's photographs approach us truth through surrealism, shadows and masks ...
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Heart For Art’s Sake: 17th Century Emblems Of Virtue And Sin

Heart For Art’s Sake: 17th Century Emblems Of Virtue And Sin

Vices and virtues in life and how shape your bleeding heart - emblems from a 17th Century German book to living well ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Maps, Diagrams And Charts by John Philipps Emslie – 1850s

Gorgeous Maps, Diagrams And Charts by John Philipps Emslie – 1850s

John Emslie (1813–1875) was a British cartographer, artist and bookplate engraver. He created and oversaw ...
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Forlorn Hope: The First of 500 US Prison Newspapers

Forlorn Hope: The First of 500 US Prison Newspapers

Highlights from the archive of American Prison Newspapers 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside. ...
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Photos of The Sensational Cincinnati Old Main Library Before It Was Torn Down In 1955

Photos of The Sensational Cincinnati Old Main Library Before It Was Torn Down In 1955

  The Cincinnati Old Main Library, aka "Old Main", was once one of Cincinnati, Ohio's ...
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Buy Prints Comets, Meteors and Other Stars of Wonder

Comets, Meteors and Other Stars of Wonder

Comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars are signs of God's love, portents of doom, fretful conversations with the divine, divine illumination, wonderful and full of mystery. ...
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