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1890:
The ‘Peacock’ Portrait

1800s:
Mourning costume

c. 1876:
Deadwood

1880-1920:
Male Anti-Masturbation Devices

c. late 1800s:
“Female Samurai”

c. late 1800s:
Victorian Batman

c. 1887-1888:
Telephone Wires over New York

1886:
Cutting a sunbeam

c. 1890:
What is it?

1882:
The Automatic Toy Works Catalogue

1882:
Gasworks by Vincent Van Gogh

1886-1890:
Victorian Spy Camera

1880:
Sarah Bernhardt’s Inkwell, Self Portrait as a Sphinx

c. 1890s-1910s:
Gandhi as an attorney

1896-1907:
Victorian Cliff House

1844:
“The Astronomical Phenomena of the Universe”

1800s:
Tattooed Japanese Mail Runners

c. 1900:
Times Square Billboards

1800-1930:
Rates of Travel from New York

April 1886:
First known photograph of “the finger”

22 October 1895:
Train Wreck at Montparnasse

c. 1890s:
Blackfeet country

1800s:
The Mad Potter of Biloxi

1800s:
Flirtation rules

1800s:
Headless portraits

1890s:
Carriage on the frozen Thames, Oxford

c.1879-190:
Albert Einstein as a child

1800s:
Snow Lady

1880s:
Long-maned Wonder Horses

c. 1880:
Contortionist