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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

illustrations for Amédée Guillemin's encyclopedia make science beautiful ...

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Color Portraits of 19th-Century Norwegians by Marcus Selmer

Marcus Selmer’s gorgeous hand-colored photograph's of Norwegians ...

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19th Century Chart of Principal Ports and Places Distances from Washington DC

'Exhibiting at one view the names of about thirteen hundred of the principal ports and places in the world, with their bearings per compass, and their distances expressed in geographical miles from the city of Washington' ...

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They Dug Up Lord Byron’s Body in 1938 and Were Shocked by The Size of His Dick

At four o'clock on the afternoon of 15th June 1938, the doors to St. Mary Magdalene were locked. Inside, around forty people waited expectantly for the opening of the Byron vault. ...

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London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...

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Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women

Julia Margaret Cameron's lavish soft-focus portraits are all the better for their flaws ...

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Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Highlights from Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio - 'Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' ...

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40 Great Portraits of Wales and The Welsh 1865-1885

John Thomas toured Wales taking photographs of the country and its people ...

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Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Around 1900, Berlin-born naturalised American Arnold Genthe took (often covert) pictures of street life in San Francisco's Chinatown. ...

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Take an 1890 Photochrom Tour of Rome

“Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” – George Eliot ...

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41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

There are more than 4,000 runic inscriptions in Sweden, dated from the 3d century up to modern time. ...

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27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

“’Tis all in vain your simpering looks, You never can incline, With all your bustles, stays and curls, To find a Valentine.” ...

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