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1888:
Sarah Bernhardt as “The Ocean Empress”
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Famous people
Era:
1800s
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1880:
Sarah Bernhardt’s Inkwell, Self Portrait as a Sphinx
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1887:
Smiling Queen Victoria
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c. 1895:
The Duke of York (Later King George V) Holding a Pug
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1874:
Prince Arthur as a Fairy Prince
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1877:
Oscar Wilde in Greek National Costume
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c.1862:
Sara Forbes Bonetta
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1897:
Fridtjof Nansen, Polar Explorer
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1800s:
Queen Victoria with her grandchildren
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c.1879:
Only Known Authenticated Photograph of Billy the Kid,
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1860-1880:
Articulated Artist’s Model
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Late 1800s:
Juggling rifles
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1895:
University of Virginia Rotunda fire
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1840:
Napoleon Altarpiece
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Late 1800s:
Double Portraits
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1862:
Sioux Internment
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1886:
The frame of the Statue of Liberty
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1811:
Solar System Sampler
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c. late 1800s:
Woman pulling a face
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1899:
Laliberte’s Fur Parlour
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c. 1860s:
Woman with long hair
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1862:
Settlers fleeing the US Dakota war massacre
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1890:
Wenzel Friedrich’s Horn Furniture
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c. 1876:
Making the flame of Liberty
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c.1900:
Meiji Era Geishas as Bathing Beauties
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c.1880/1900:
Komuso “Basket” monks,
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1838:
Queen Victoria’s Coronation Ring
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1896:
Giant Tricycle
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1905:
Bulldogs in Fancy Dress
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1890s-1900s:
Tsar Nicholas II Clowning Around with Friends
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1896-1907:
Victorian Cliff House
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1800s:
Victorian Emoticons
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1891-1893:
The Last Queen of Hawaii
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24th May 1862:
First journey on the London Underground
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Late 1800s:
Polaire
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1860s:
Women who fought as men in the Civil War