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Tag Archives: USA
1910: Suffragette Madonnas
The message of these anti-suffrage postcards is that if women have the right to vote, society will be turned upsidedown and men will become feminized, forced to do the women’s work of taking care of babies—how horrible! Although these … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Children, Democracy, Fathers, Feminism, Postcards, USA
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1855: Solitude
Louis Remy Mignot: Solitude (1855)
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Art, Landscapes, Louis Remy Mignot, Painting, The Sun, USA
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1904: Moonrise
Edward Steichen: Moonrise – Mamaroneck, New York (1904)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Edward Steichen, Landscapes, Luxembourg, Photography, The Moon, Trees, USA, Water
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1831: A Loud Noise in the Heavens
Nat Turner’s bible (source) And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he … Continue reading
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Tagged 1820's, 1830's, 19th Century, African-Americans, Books, Christianity, Nat Turner, Rebellion, Religion, Slavery, Thomas R. Gray, USA
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1875: New Jersey
Francis A. Silva: Sunrise, Barnegat Beach, New Jersey (1875) Born the son of an immigrant barber in New York City, Francis Augustus Silva never received formal training as an artist. He displayed talent at an early age, exhibiting ink drawings … Continue reading
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1872: Wyoming
Timothy H. O’Sullivan: Buttes near Green River City, Wyoming (1872) (source)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Geology, Landscapes, Photography, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, USA
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1943: Day Shift
Francis Criss: Day Shift (1943)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Art, Factories, Francis Criss, Labor, Painting, USA, Women, WWII
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1920: Gobi
Panoramic view of the Gobi Desert taken during one of Roy Chapman Andrews’ Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s. (source)
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Tagged 1920's, Art, Deserts, Landscapes, Photography, Roy Chapman Andrews, USA
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1918: Mysterious Island
N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 1910's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, American Civil War, Animals, Art, Birds, Books, France, Illustration, Jules Verne, N. C. Wyeth, Science Fiction, The Ocean, USA
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