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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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A Teenager’s Secret Street Photography From 19th Century Oslo

Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer (3 September 1874 – 13 August 1957), a renowned mathematician and ...

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‘Chains That Set Women Free’ – Glorious 19th Century Posters of Women on Bikes

'The bicycle has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike' - Susan Brownell Anthony, 1896 ...

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Edvard Munch’s Experimental Selfies

“Illness, madness, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life” - Edvard Munch ...

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