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The Suffragette Photographs of Christina Broom

Lugging her camera equipment around while in her forties and less than five feet tall she became the first female press photographer... ...

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When the Alarm Clock Was a Person: The “Knocker-Uppers” of Industrial-Era Britain

Rural laborers, used to keeping time with the seasons, relocated to manufacturing towns and cities at significant rates. They not only had to adjust to dangerous, fast-paced industrial work, but to new schedules... ...

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Gorgeous Vintage New Year’s Greeting Cards – Circa 1900

These greeting cards from the late 19th and early 20th-century celebrate the New Year with lucky pigs, foxes fleeing for their lives and at least one drunk frog ...

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Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

December 26 is St Stephen's Day, when the Church distributed charity boxes to the needy but can also be traced back to when the wealthy gave their servants a box of Christmas treats; hence Boxing Day. ...

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Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

“I am God in a body,” wrote Vaslav Nijinsky (1879-1944) in his famous Diary. “Everyone has this feeling, but no one uses it.” ...

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Fabulous Photos of Christmas Shopping in New York City – December 1910

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." Shirley Temple ...

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Hilma af Klint’s Cosmic Art Of The Invisible

“I had no idea what they were supposed to depict… I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.” ...

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The Fabulous Design Album of Mary Lowndes And Other Members of the Artists’ Suffrage League

Inside a book with a plain brown cover are wonderful photographs and designs for banners carried in the 13 June 1908 procession of The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) ...

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E. J. Bellocq’s Surviving Storyville Photographs Circa 1912

Wonderful portraits of prostitutes in America's first red-light district ...

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Sydney Illuminations (1908 -1925) – Australia Welcomes the United States Great White Fleet in a Blaze of Lights

The Australian National Maritime Museum has these terrific pictures of ‘Sydney Illuminations’, when ships, buildings and the quay were lit up to hail visiting vessels. ...

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“It’s Meat and Drink to You” – 100 Years of Oxo Cube Adverts

Even the busiest housewife can make a meal in a moment! ...

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Incredible Photographs of Shipwrecks (1872 – 1997)

From the Gibson Archives - stunning photographs of ships wrecked on his British coasts ...

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