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Singer France Gall on a Katakura Silk Porta Cycle, 1965
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CYCLES PEUGEOT, 1931. ROGER PÉROT (1908-1976).
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Dans la Bibliothèque
Auguste Toulmouche
oil on canvas, 1872
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Entrance of the 1900 Paris World Exhibition
French vintage postcard
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1900-1909 Bodice, skirt and petticoat by unknown maker
taffeta, net, bead
(Goldstein Museum of Design)
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City Palace complex, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
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July, 1922 American dancer Margaret Severn, photo by Maurice Goldberg. From Flower Child Conscious Fashion, FB.
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Statue (stucco) of the seated Buddha, from a stupa at the now-destroyed site of Hadda, Afghanistan. The statue is in the Gandhara style, blending Hellenistic and South Asian influences. Artist unknown; ca. 300 AD/CE. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA. Photo credit: Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Modern Painting with Sun Rays, 1967
Oil and magna on canvas
48 1/8 × 68 in. (122.3 × 172.7 cm)
Smithsonian Institution
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Queen Adelaide (Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen)
Artist: William Beechey (English, 1753–1839)
Date: c. 1831
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline; 13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV. Adelaide was the daughter of George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is named after her.
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City Palace complex, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
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In Shetland they start knitting early: Little Chrissie Cheyne with cat. J. Peterson, 1930s.
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