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Smithsonian Magazine19d
Take a Look at the ‘Extraordinary’ 19th-Century Portraits Made With Some of the Earliest Methods of Photography
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...
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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...
The New York Times1mon
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN 1800; Queer Contrast Between These Late Century ...
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN 1800; Queer Contrast Between These Late Century Journals. OLD TIMERS NOT HUSTLERS Advertisements Characteristic of the Period -- Some Famous Editors -- William Cobbett and the ...
Foreign Affairs6mon
The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia: A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914
Review The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia: A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914 Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert January 1945 Published on January 1, 1945 ...
National Geographic news5mon
The forgotten history of New York’s first electric taxi fleet—in ...
New York City had a horse problem in the last 19th-century. Its streets and alleyways were jammed with an estimated 150,000 of the animals—each one producing more than 35 pounds of waste every day.