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In 1849, enslaved American Henry Brown boxed himself up and mailed himself to a state where slavery was illegal. He left the box a free man.

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Elizabeth Blackwell earned an M.D. from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York in 1849, becoming the first female Doctor in the U.S.!




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2021-01-24

ART APPRECIATION!
A Summer Afternoon, 1849, By Asher B. Durand

“Water - a thoroughly underrated drink.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

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2020-12-10

Tal día como hoy de 1849, murió Edgar Allan Poe.

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2020-10-07

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Study of a Dog, 1849, David Cox https://t.co/jns1TO0VN3

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2020-10-01

Birds in the park: Iconographie ornithologique : nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux, by MAP DesMurs et al, 1845-1849, BHL/Smithsonian.......https://t.co/VqCZ7XUNOl

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2020-09-01

Natural history and the park; Centurie zoologique, ou, Choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus, by PR Lesson and JG Pretre, 1974-1849, BHL/Smithsonian......https://t.co/pF0p3v9TST

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2020-08-09

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Stormy sea at night, 1849, Óleo sobre lienzo

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2020-06-09

On this day in 1849, rec'd Patent

Did you know he was the ONLY US Prez to hold a patent? Learn more about his invention in new THE SUPERLATIVE A. LINCOLN!
This book is a 2020 selection!

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2020-05-23

13 mars 1790: naissance de Mary Ann Elisa Birch, dite Elisa de Lamartine, peintre, sculptrice.
➡️Madame de Lamartine, 1849, par Jean-Léon Gérôme
➡️Marie Louise Julie de Lamartine.

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2020-03-13

Looking for a picture for my blog to substitute for the burning of the in 1849, I actually found an article in the Illustrated News with THREE illustrations and a brief history of the theater! Fetch my fainting couch, darling! I may swoon!

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2020-02-17

Mt Egmont, from the Sugar Loaf Islands, Taranake 1849, Charles Heaphy, Alexander Turnbull Library https://t.co/XOsiDrCjhX (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2019-12-04

L'une de mes peintures préférées, par Ivan Aïvazovski (1886). Elle représente la parade navale de la flotte russe de la mer Noire en 1849, devant le tsar Nicolas Ier, accompagné de son fils, le tsarévitch Alexandre, de l’amiral Lazarev et des vice-amiraux Kornilov et Nakhimov...

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2019-10-30

Le 7 octobre 1849, il y a tout juste 170 ans, Edgar Allan Poe disparaissait à Baltimore. Pour rendre hommage à un de mes écrivains préférés, j’ai choisi cette belle édition de « The Raven », magnifiquement illustrée par Gustave Doré. Dans : https://t.co/tEn6tDm4yF

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2019-10-07

Today in 1849, the immortal Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore. He was just 40 years old. Tune into at 8:20a for a special musical tribute. (Illustration by the great )

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2019-10-07

A Summer Afternoon, 1849, Asher B. Durand

“Water - a thoroughly underrated drink.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

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2019-05-14

Psyche opening the door into Cupid's garden, by John William Waterhouse. The great painter was born in Rome on 6 April 1849, during the Roman Republic short period.

📸 by libriquadriluoghi via IG

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2019-04-06

Gerhard Peter Frantz Munthe (19 July 1849, Elverum, Hedmark – 15 January 1929) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator.

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2018-11-26

Basket of Flowers 1848-1849,
Eugène

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2018-08-23

in 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting US President to have his photograph taken (the photographer was Mathew Brady).

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