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Pastorals of Virgil Woodblock depicting a horse, by Thomas Bewick, c. 1800. Woodblock depicting a peacock, by Thomas Bewick, c. 1800. Woodblock depicting a swan, by Thomas Bewick, c. 1800. John Stuart Mill, undated wood engraving. Haymarket Affair
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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
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bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.
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Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
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Pastorals of Virgil
Woodblock depicting a horse, by Thomas Bewick, c. 1800.
Woodblock depicting a peacock, by Thomas Bewick, c. 1800.
Woodblock depicting a swan, by Thomas Bewick, c. 1800.
John Stuart Mill, undated wood engraving.
Haymarket Affair
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Thomas Bewick: The Tawny Owl
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Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
Walter Crane
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Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré
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Gibson, William Hamilton
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William James Linton
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