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With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

In 1955, Emma Gatewood of Ohio, the first woman to complete the hike, did so on her second try. She was 67 years old, a mother of 11, and a grandmother of many more. ...
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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...
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Capturing the Present in the Lush Polaroids of Celebrated Cinematographer Robby Müller

Capturing the Present in the Lush Polaroids of Celebrated Cinematographer Robby Müller

  Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller (1940-2018) was a "master of light". Whilst working with Wim ...
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Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Chun discovered a species so terrifying, he called it Vampyrotheuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell,” just one of the many creatures he found, then dissected, labeled, and named. ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Seeing wonder in the small - looking at the 'German Darwin's' world of wonder ...
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Satirical Illustrations From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race – 1851

Satirical Illustrations From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race – 1851

A lively collection of lithographs lampooning men and women of the gilded age ...
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Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

  For the DOCUMERICA Project (1971-1977), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired around ...
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Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter found signs of something beautiful that connects us all in pictures of a wet New York ...
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“Traveller’s Joy” – The Key to the Countryside – Beautiful Shell Adverts from the mid-1950s

“Traveller’s Joy” – The Key to the Countryside – Beautiful Shell Adverts from the mid-1950s

From the 1920s and into the 1950s the Shell Oil Company produced some wonderful advertising posters and some said, the most beautiful the country has ever seen. ...
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Landscape and Silence: The Beautiful Photography of Michael Prince

Landscape and Silence: The Beautiful Photography of Michael Prince

Prince is a photographer and filmmaker based in Scotland. His photographs are spellbinding ...
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Watching ‘The Most Dangerous Animals In The World’ – The Bronx Zoo in 1963

Watching ‘The Most Dangerous Animals In The World’ – The Bronx Zoo in 1963

In his book 'The Animals', Garry Winogrand photographed life in New York for the outsiders and other species ...
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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

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