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A late-medieval cluster brooch with letters spelling 'Amor,' 1450s.

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2019-11-01

Alongside our exhibition we also have a gallery filled with seascapes and river views:

This is 'Le Petit Pont' by Charles Meryon

Meryon was a well known French etcher and produced a series of images of Paris in the 1850s.

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2019-10-30

The Alfred E. Smith Houses were built in the early 1950s. They replaced an entire neighborhood (considered slums) that housed my immigrant ancestors a century before. The area now known as “Two Bridges” in the Lower East Side of Manhattan had no bridges back then.

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2019-10-25

Join us tomorrow for a workshop where you will learn how to create your own fashion illustrations like these by Anna Lowe, a Belfast based fashion illustrator who worked in the 1940s & 50s. You will be guided by professional illustrators from
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2019-10-18

Pietro Donzelli. Delta del Po, 50s.

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2019-10-01

🦊 A different style and unique I made for a friend. My inspiration was the 80s as I’m feeling it’s really making a comeback in society, which I’m totally all for in the I’m trying to capture lately of the 80s, 60s, and 50s.

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2019-09-19

Liscard Road, Liscard, Wallasey, Wirral - 1950s. Photo via Jim Walker on FB.

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2019-09-17

Ledra Street, Nicosia, Cyprus in the 1950s. The capital's principal shopping street. https://t.co/AKNis5kvdz

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2019-09-13

We're after a glorious bank holiday, but worry not, here's our brilliant to continue that holiday feeling with. Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín, follows a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 50s.

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2019-08-27

Southern Pacific 4-8-4 (GS-4) has train the southbound (eastbound) "San Joaquin Daylight" (San Francisco - Los Angeles via the San Joaquin Division), awaits departure from Oakland's East Bay Pier/Ferry Slip (also known as the "Mole"), c/early 1950s. Guy Dunscomb photo.

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2019-08-23

1959, Hawai'i becomes 50th US state, but 's connection dates to 1898 US annexation of Hawaiian Islands, when responsibility for relations was assigned to Interior. Most Hawaiian artifacts in 's collection, like this pandanus fan, are from 1930-50s.

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2019-08-21

Jazzpunk is a cyberpunk game that takes place in an alternate reality 1950s. One very important design goal for me was to find a way to convey kind of "1950s cyberspace" that rejected the tropes that were cemented and have hung around since Tron was released in 1982 --

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2019-08-18

In 1859, an aurora borealis was so large it was visible in Cuba. Painter Frederic Edwin Church witnessed it in New York and painted a depiction. Check out the ’s podcast to learn how the aurora borealis impacted the 1850s. https://t.co/X08f96qPWN (Image: SAAM)

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2019-08-16

Orient-Express, 1950s.

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2019-08-15

Lovely.

This is the 1950s. Wing-tank special built by Lt Col Edward Richer USAF, England, this vehicle was composed of a Ford Anglia chassis, Chevrolet and Austin parts and T33 tanks.

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2019-08-03

Bride and wedding dress of the 1950s.

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2019-07-30

OTD in 2013, we place a plaque marking the former home of the legendary San Remo Cafe, hangout for from the 1920s and the Beats & literati from the 1950s. More: https://t.co/GF9sfkZg9n, https://t.co/Au9tyU3dN6, https://t.co/Z6aAlEEVVP, https://t.co/RXLzSBiuid

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2019-07-30

Famed paleontologist Richard Owen misidentified Lonchodraco as Pterodactylus in the 1850s. https://t.co/EBenp8H2Pt

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2019-07-21