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1883:
Illustrated Guide to Insane People
It’s really quite sad.
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Books
Era:
1800s
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1950s:
Illustrated Pepsi Ads
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Matt Groening’s Apple ‘Student’s Guide’, 1989
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9th December 1961:
The Beatles play to 18 people in Aldershot
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1931:
People of Moscow
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1940s-2010s:
Famous People Hanging Out II
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1930s-2010s:
Famous people hanging out
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1848:
Leo Tolstoy aged 20
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1874:
Interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati
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c. 1850:
Phrenological Head
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1800s:
The Mad Hatter
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c. 1880:
Burdock Blood Bitters Ad
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1881:
Monsters from the Kaibutsu Ehon
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1876:
“Eaten by mountain rats”, Colorado
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1868:
The Artificial Albatross
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c.1850-1910:
Artificial Arm
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c.1878:
Victorian Mourning
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1861:
12-year-old Abbott Handerson Thayer with an owl
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c. 1800s:
Victorian lady roller-skaters
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1886:
Meig’s Elevated Railway
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1899:
The High Rollers Extravaganza Co.
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1870s:
Construction of the Statue of Liberty
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c.1838:
First photograph of a human
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4th March 1861 :
Abraham Lincoln’s Inauguration
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late 1800s:
One man band
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1877-1885:
Statue of Liberty in Paris
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1800s:
Queen Victoria with her grandchildren
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1896-1901:
The Brighton “Daddy Long-Legs”
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1890s-1900s:
Tsar Nicholas II Clowning Around with Friends
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c. 1865:
The Writing Ball
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1858:
Last Napoleonic Veterans
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1896-1907:
Victorian Cliff House
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1884:
The Jull Centrifugal Snow Plough
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c.1860s-1880s:
“Circassian Beauties”
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1868-1884:
Construction of Neuschwanstein Castle
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c.1890s-1930s:
Zebra Carriages