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  Port Arthur, Tasmania c. 1880. It was founded in 1830 as a convict settlement and functioned as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects, and employing “secondary offenders” as its workforce

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  “The Condition of the Laboring Man at Pullman” – cartoon from the Chicago Labor Newspaper, 1894

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  Union soldier Albert Dixon he was born Dec 29 1843 in Jefferson county ny he was killed in action at the battle of Gettysburg at the age of 19

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  “Fate of the Rebel Flag” – New York, USA. 1861.

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  My grandfather, 1890s

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  Anti-margarine propaganda poster from 1887

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  1869 oil painting from artist Jean-Léon Gérôme showing a modeled depiction of the infamous, brutal Bashi-Bazouk of the Ottoman Empire

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  American troops fire on insurgents in the Philippine jungle during the Philippine-American War, circa 1899

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  Thérèse of Lisieux dressed up as Joan of Arc. The only photograph of a canonized Saint cosplaying as another Saint. (c. 1897)

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  Presumably one of the first photographs of intersex genitalia. Photograph by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar), 1860.

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  «The Third of May 1808 (Execution of the Defenders of Madrid)», Spain, 1814.

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  Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885.

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  Mother & Son, 1885

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  NO!! I don’t Drink Coffee. Postum Food Coffee, 1899.

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  Anti-masturbation cartoon published in the ‘The Sexual System and its Derangements’, an 1875 book published in New York and written by one Emery C. Abbey. The cartoon contrasts the sorry state of the masturbator at ages 16 and 50 with the health and vitality of the abstainer at ages 21 and 70.

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  The ruins of a Russian post used to defend Sevastopol during the Crimean War. Circa 1854-1856.

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  Steeple of Christ Church Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand under repair following earthquake damage – 1891.

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  Barricades on the Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, “Before the Attack” – 25th June 1848.

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  Xi Jinping, aged 9, with his younger brother and their father in 1962. .

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  London sanitation engineers overseeing new sewer construction following the Great Stink of 1858

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