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Tag Archives: 1860’s
1865: Dream
May 3, 1869 Rev. and Dear Sir, After many delays I send you a short account of the dream which excited your interest last summer. In the fall of 1865, I think it was in the month of November, while … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Dreams, Henry Armitt Brown, Oddities, USA
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1732: The Morals of Chess
Although Benjamin Franklin likely composed his essay “The Morals of Chess” as early as 1732, it was first published in 1786, during the height of interest surrounding Wolfgang von Kempelen’s mechanical chess-playing Turk; Franklin himself had lost to the machine … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 18th Century, 19th Century, Art, Automata, Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, Chess, Digital Art, Diplomacy, Edward Harrison May, France, Great Britain, Negotiations, Painting, Richard Howe, Thomas Jefferson, USA, William Temple Franklin, Wolfgang von Kempelen
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1865: Shirt
Oglala Lakota (Teton Sioux) artists, South Dakota: Man’s Shirt (1865) (source)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Clothing, Native Americans, USA
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1867: Historical Monument of the American Republic
Erastus Salisbury Field: Historical Monument of the American Republic (c. 1867)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Architecture, Art, Erastus Salisbury Field, History, Painting, Printmaking, USA
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1923: Emancipation Machine
“I feel that I have done something for the women who have always had to work so hard. This will enable them more easily to earn a living.” Statement of Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter HOW WOMEN … Continue reading
1863: Sheep in a Boat
Rosa Bonheur: Changing Pastures (1863)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, France, Landscapes, LGBTQ, Mammals, Painting, Rosa Bonheur, Scotland, Sheep, Ships & Sailing, Water, Women
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1869: Ayu Dag
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky: View of the Ayu Dag (1869)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Ivan Aivazovsky, Landscapes, Painting, Russia, Seascapes
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1865: The Master Is Dead, the Master Is Dead
A North German custom and superstition is, that if the master of the house dies, a person must go to the Beehive, knock, and repeat these words: “The master is dead, the master is dead,” else the Bees will fly … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Bees, Books, France, Frank Cowan, Insects, John Levett, Lithuania, Printmaking
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1865: The Gloomy Path
Elihu Vedder: The Gloomy Path (1865)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Elihu Vedder, Painting, USA
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1867: Ambo le Man per lo Dolor mi Morsi
In the lowest depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil come upon the souls of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca and his political enemy Archbishop Ruggieri. Both are frozen in ice up to their necks; Ugolino is behind Ruggieri, gnawing on the … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Dante, France, Italy, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Poetry, Sculpture
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