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Idyllic Victorian Photos of the 1850s English Countryside

Idyllic Victorian Photos of the 1850s English Countryside

Photos used as illustrations for a book, Sunshine in the Country: A Book of Rural Poetry ...
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Shirtwaist Fashion, The ‘Gibson Girl’ and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster of 1911

Shirtwaist Fashion, The ‘Gibson Girl’ and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster of 1911

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 workers, mostly immigrant women and girls trapped by fire, a collapsed fire escape, and locked doors, in a Greenwich Village garment factory. It marks a pivotal moment in 20th century history, at the nexus of concerns over labor exploitation, workplace safety, conditions of immigrant life, corruption in New York politics, and women’s emergence into the workforce. ...
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Louis Wain: The Man Who Drew Millions of Far-Out Cats

Louis Wain: The Man Who Drew Millions of Far-Out Cats

"He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world” - H.G. Wells ...
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Convicts And Exiles In Pre-Revolution Siberia

Convicts And Exiles In Pre-Revolution Siberia

“As for me, my sympathies are with the Russia of the people, not the Russia of the tsars; with the Russia of the provincial assemblies, not the Russia of the secret police; with the Russian of the future, not the Russia of the past" - George Kennan ...
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Gustave Dore’s Superb 1867 Full-Page Illustrations for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Gustave Dore’s Superb 1867 Full-Page Illustrations for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Gustav Dore's work is the ideal match for Raspe's extraordinary Baron ...
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Spectacular Photographs Of America’s Western Frontier (1867-1874)

Spectacular Photographs Of America’s Western Frontier (1867-1874)

In the 1860s and 1870s, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan (1840 – 1882) was part of a ...
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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, A Pro-Slavery Response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, A Pro-Slavery Response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning” - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin ...
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A Glorious Book of French Textile Samples (1863)

A Glorious Book of French Textile Samples (1863)

Pages from a collection of nineteenth-century textile samples - in watercolour copies - from the Robert Maison company of Paris. ...
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52 Colorful, Fun and Disturbing Victorian Trade Cards

52 Colorful, Fun and Disturbing Victorian Trade Cards

Popularized after the US Civil War by businesses, colored Victorian Trade Cards allow us to look at popular culture and society in the late 1800s ...
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Egypt by The Zangaki Brothers (1870-1890)

Egypt by The Zangaki Brothers (1870-1890)

Greek  brothers C. and G. Zangaki photographed scenes of Egypt from the 1870s to 1890s to tell as  souvenirs to European tourists. ...
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An American Community of Color: Beaver Brook, Massachusetts 1897-1917

An American Community of Color: Beaver Brook, Massachusetts 1897-1917

Stunning portraits of former slaves who turned north to make a new start ...
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40 Glorious Photos From Four Generations of A Texas Family

40 Glorious Photos From Four Generations of A Texas Family

A family's photo albums hark back to Sancho Panza, Lee Harvey Oswald and a 100 years of Texas history ...
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