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liquidnight: Gustave Doré ~ The Vultures and the Pigeons, 1867
~ From Doré’s Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine
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“I Scrubs” - Katie who Keeps House in West Forty-ninth Street, New York, 1892
“When Riis met nine-year-old Katie at the 52nd Street Industrial School, he asked what kind of work she did, and she answered, ‘I scrubs.’ Katie and her three older siblings took their own flat after their mother died and their father remarried. The older children worked in a hammock factory, and Katie kept house. When asked if she would pose for this picture, which appeared in Children of the Poor, Katie ‘got right up … without a question and without a smile.’”
From Jacob Riis (55 Series)
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Skull / Kids Playing with Puppy and Paperdolls - 1800s Metamorphic Postcard for Hindoo 5-Cent Cigar
![liquidnight: Interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County “Old Main” Building, photographer unknown, 1874.
In 1874 the Public Library of Cincinnati took possession of a small building intended to be an opera house. According to John Fleishman, “the parcel at 629 Vine Street was transformed in two stages into a library building that startled America with its cutting edge design. Its vast Main Hall featured five tiers of cast-iron book alcoves that could house over 200,000 volumes.”
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liquidnight: Interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County “Old Main” Building, photographer unknown, 1874.
In 1874 the Public Library of Cincinnati took possession of a small building intended to be an opera house. According to John Fleishman, “the parcel at 629 Vine Street was transformed in two stages into a library building that startled America with its cutting edge design. Its vast Main Hall featured five tiers of cast-iron book alcoves that could house over 200,000 volumes.”
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yeoldefashion: This costume was designed for a fancy dress ball and features rather scandalous harem pants. Worth, 1870.
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