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So it goes
~ Wednesday, May 22 ~
~ Saturday, May 18 ~
~ Friday, April 19 ~
Fanny, Montalivet, France, Gelatin silver print, Jock Sturges, 1996
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~ Friday, March 1 ~
~ Wednesday, February 27 ~
~ Friday, February 15 ~
Crimean War
Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper.
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~ Tuesday, February 5 ~
~ Friday, February 1 ~
~ Monday, January 21 ~
~ Wednesday, January 16 ~
Dog license amnesty. London, 1933
From the book ‘A Thousand Dogs’ (Raymond Merritt & Miles Barth; Taschen, 2008)
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~ Monday, January 14 ~
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier - African Venus, 1851
Cordier submitted a plaster cast of the bust of an African visitor to Paris to the Salon of 1848, and two years later he again entered it as a bronze. A young African woman served as the model for this companion piece in 1851. Regarded as powerful expressions of nobility and dignity, these sculptures proved to be highly popular: casts were acquired by the Museum of National History in Paris and also by Queen Victoria. The Walters’ pair were cast by the Paris foundry Eck and Durand in 1852. These bronzes were esteemed by 19th-century viewers as expressions of human pride and dignity in the face of grave injustice.
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~ Sunday, January 13 ~
Fianna Éireann scouts carrying out signal training with flags, ca 1914
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~ Monday, January 7 ~
~ Friday, December 21 ~
