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“View on Roche-Mouttonnee Creek, Colorado.” -Dana, 1883

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Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.

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An illustration of Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC.

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House in Cusco in which Garcilaso was born.

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Caen Cathedral (Normandy).

D. Roberts, from The gallery of modern British artists, London, 1834.

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The citizen guard, with drums beating in front, led him back to the Hôtel-de-Ville.

Daniel Vierge, from Histoire de la révolution française (History of the French revolution) vol. 1, by Jules Michelet, Paris, 1883-87.

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Roland takes his leave of Hilda.

From Germania’s Sagenborn (Germania’s folklore), by Emil Engelmann, Stuttgart, 1889.

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From Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth , 1475-1600

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I (eye). C. U.

Ledoux. Late 18th century. France. 

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Richard Davey - A history of mourning (1890).

Above: Funeral of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany.

Below: The Catafalque erected for the Funeral Service of His Majesty King Victor Emanuel, in the Pantheon, Rome.

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Richard Davey - A history of mourning (1890).

Above: Funeral of Victor Hugo, June 1, 1885.

Below: Napoleon’s tomb at the Les Invalides.

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Bill Sanderson

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“Lo!” he exclaimed, “lo! Dis; and lo! the place,
Where thou hast need to arm thy heart with strength.”

Gustave Doré, from Dante’s Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, New York, circa 1866.

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Main building of the exhibition, from Judges’ Hall.

From The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, Philadelphia and Chicago, circa 1876.

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