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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

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)

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)

“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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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The Illuminated Moby-Dick: Artist Illustrates Every Page of Herman Melville’s Epic Book

"I wanted a slow, intense pace through the book so I decided to create one illustration a day, every day, for every single one of the 552 pages of my Signet Classics paperback, and on August 4, 2009 I began" - Matt Kiss ...

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Georgiana Houghton’s Spirit Drawings: A Victorian Medium Channels The Eye of God

“Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit)” - Susan Sontag ...

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13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

"Beautiful England - on her Island throne - Grandly she rules - with half the world her own; From her vast empire the sun ne'er departs: She reigns a Queen - Victoria Queen of Hearts" ...

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