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c. 1890s-1910s:
Gandhi as an attorney
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1888:
Sarah Bernhardt as “The Ocean Empress”
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c.1879-190:
Albert Einstein as a child
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c.1862:
Sara Forbes Bonetta
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c.1856-1899:
La Castiglione
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1887:
Smiling Queen Victoria
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1891-1893:
The Last Queen of Hawaii
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1860s:
Olive Oatman
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1897:
Fridtjof Nansen, Polar Explorer
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c.1850:
Man smiling
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1800s:
Professional Mourners
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1840s-1990s:
“Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop”
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c. 1833–1842:
Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart
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1800s:
Headless portraits
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22 October 1895:
Train Wreck at Montparnasse
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1800-1930:
Rates of Travel from New York
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c. 1900:
Times Square Billboards
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1880:
Sarah Bernhardt’s Inkwell, Self Portrait as a Sphinx
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c. 1876:
Deadwood
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1865:
Tokyo Panorama
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Black Cats Roller Derby Woman, c. 1800s
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1848:
“First photograph” of New York
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c. 1890:
Surfing
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1860:
Map of the Last U.S. Slave Census
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c.1879:
Only Known Authenticated Photograph of Billy the Kid,
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Shopping in the Belly of the Whale
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1879:
“Edison’s Anti-Gravitation Underclothing”, Punch
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1800s:
Sportswomen
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1876-1882:
The Arm of Liberty
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The Invisible Mother, 1800s
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Ernst Haeckel’s Christmas Cards, 1800s
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Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, 1893
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1859-1899:
Ironclads
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Los Angeles, 1860-1886
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Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in his pants, 1895
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1874:
Prince Arthur as a Fairy Prince