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Mathew Brady, Delegation of Ute Indians in Washington, D.C., 1880.

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The Attitudes of Lady Hamilton. Francesco Novelli after Pietro Antonio Novelli. After 1791.

“This print shows Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815) performing her famous ‘attitudes’, a series of theatrical mimes and poses in which she represented various figures from classical literature, myth and history.” (via V&A)

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Unknown man, daguerreotype by Robert Cornelius, c. 1839. 

Submitted by 50s60sand70s

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Siberian Bear Hunting Costume.

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 Wedding portrait of Jefferson Davis, age 37„ with his bride, Varina Howell, age 17, in 1845.

Source: New York Public Library, The Pageant of America Collection

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“Mary Simpson, a common prostitute age 10 or 11 year. She has been known as Mrs. Berry for at least two years. She is four months with child.” London, 1871.

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Historiae Naturalis. De Insectis Libri III, 1657

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Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810–1874),  The Trapper’s Bride , 1850 

Joslyn Art Museum

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Timeline of pornography and sexual representation, Oregon trail era, from Joseph Slade's pornography and sexual representation.

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Hunters of Kentucky

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Oregon trail vocabulary – Offal - n. 1. Waste parts, especially of a butchered animal. 2. Refuse; rubbish. [Middle English : of-, off (from Old English, from of; see apo- in Indo-European roots) + fal, fall.] This was also used as a word for pee. “The water, too, disgusting remembrance! There was none, save what we scooped from the puddles, thick and yellow with buffalo offal.”

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Pioneer woman collecting buffalo chips to burn instead of firewood. Sorry about the orientation, no option to turn it on my phone. :(

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Currently reading up on mountain men. Love them. So many horror stories about bears, for example like how bears give you the hug of death and then crush your head in their jaws.