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Leap! / detail photograph of drawing & engraving by M. Haider1894 in Century Magazine
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/464145009/
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Jaunty / photograph of vintage illustration “Schnitzel was smiling to himself”by Frederic Dorr Steele (1873-1944)  from “The Spy” by Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) - Century Magazine, 1905
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/464137586/
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Thwap / photograph of an engraving from “A History of the Rod” by Rev. William M. Cooper / 1896
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/4792828401/
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Scowler / photograph of a vintage engraving of Hablot Knight Browne aka Phiz (1815-1882) - British illustrator of Charles Dickens’ works - Engraved by David Nichols (1829-1911) from a drawing by Hablot’s son Walter Browne & published in Century Magazine, November, 1892
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/4748296037/
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Jurist Portrait / photograph of a vintage engraving of Theodore E. Denker, 27, A shipping clerk for the wholesale clothing firm of H. H. King.  / He was a jurist in the “Anarchy Trial” or “Haymarket Affair”  in Chicago, Illinois, 30 September, 1886 / “The People vs. August Spies, et al.”“—THEODORE E. DENKER, Woodlawn; was born in Wisconsin; 27 years of age; shipping clerk for H. H. King & Co. He was examined on the fourth day of the trial. He admitted that he had heard of the Haymarket affair and that he had expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendants of the murder charged, which he still entertained; that he believed what he had read and heard upon the subject, and that he thought that the opinion was such as would prevent him from rendering an impartial verdict. He was therefore challenged for cause.”
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/3852396935/
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J.A. MacGahan & F.D. Millet / photograph of an engraving by P. Aitken of a photograph by J. Pascal Sébah (1823-1886), Constantinople 1892 / —Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1844-1878) & Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912) were News Correspondents of the ‘Daily News’ in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78.  “Mr. MacGahan had previously served as a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian and Carlist wars and had investigated the ‘Bulgarian Atrocities’. “More on them here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Davis_Millethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Januarius_MacGahanhttp://gary.saretzky.com/photohistory/sebah/index.html
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Flat Foot Floozie with the Floy Floy / well not really, but for some reason that’s the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this engraving with this poor girls’ feet  :D—-The actual title is “Acadian Girl” - an 1879 engraving by Allen C. Redwood for “The Acadians of Louisiana” by R. L. Daniels—The title that sprang to mind was the 1938 song written by Slim Gaillard and made popular by Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers among others.  The word Floozie was changed to Floogie to allow radio play, but “floy floy” managed to sneak by - being slang for Venereal Disease  :D  All of America at one time sang along happily to the “Flat footed whore with the Clap” / that still makes me giggleGo here to hear it if you don’t know it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFVeJ4wHWdQ
my photograph originally posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/4699841882/
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Nathaniel Prentice Banks / my photograph of an engraving by H. Velton of a photograph by Matthew B. Brady (1822-1896) - printed with Century Magazine 1887Nathaniel Prentice Banks (1816-1894)
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/3842797968
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Jambes / photograph of the 1886 engraving by H. Folf of the lower half of  “La Force Guerrière” or “Military Courage” 1876 by M. Paul Dubois (1829-1905) at the tomb of Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière in the Cathedral of Nantesfrom “French Contemporary Sculptures” by William C. Brownell 1886/There’s apparently a bronze reproduction of this in the Mount Vernon neighborhood, Baltimore, Maryland
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/3839931694/
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The Western End of Cheyne Walk / photograph of a vintage engraving - from “Old Chelsea” by Benjamin Ellis Martin / Engraving by Joseph Pennell 1886
Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/3839931462/
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