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Signs put up by American troops at Tarawa, c. 1943
Signs put up by American troops at Tarawa, c. 1943
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Antanas SutkusAfter Shopping, 2. Vilnius, Lithuania, 1971
Antanas SutkusAfter Shopping, 2. Vilnius, Lithuania, 1971
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Don McCullinOn a hill a priest hears soldiers’...
Don McCullinOn a hill a priest hears soldiers’ confessions, Da Nang, Vietnam, 1969.
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Margin doodle of a goat playing the violin, Glosses to...
Margin doodle of a goat playing the violin, Glosses to Aristotle’s Physical treatises, c. 1300
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John Lydgate“Arms of Bury,” Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and...
John Lydgate“Arms of Bury,” Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, 1434-1439
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Arnold GentheChinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906Library of...
Arnold GentheChinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906Library of Congress
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“The dandelions at the base of the telephone pole. Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they were pretty. But grown-ups say, Miss Dunion keeps her yard so nice. Not a dandelion...
View Article"No matter, for the sadness was at her center, the desolated center where the...
“No matter, for the sadness was at her center, the desolated center where the self that was no self made its home. Sad as it was that she did not know where her children were buried or what they looked...
View Article"They had become an occasional mutter – like the interior sounds a woman...
“They had become an occasional mutter – like the interior sounds a woman makes when she believes she is alone and unobserved at her work: a sth when she misses the needle’s eye; a soft moan when she...
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Josep Tapiró i Baró“The Marabout” / “The Darcawi Holy Man from...
Josep Tapiró i Baró“The Marabout” / “The Darcawi Holy Man from Marrakesh,” c. 1890
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Ivan Aivazovsky“Azure Grotto, Naples,” 1841
Ivan Aivazovsky“Azure Grotto, Naples,” 1841
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Thomas Girtin“Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire,” 1801
Thomas Girtin“Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire,” 1801
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Georges de La Tour“Magdalene with Two Flames,” “The Repentant...
Georges de La Tour“Magdalene with Two Flames,” “The Repentant Magdalen,” “Magdalene with the Smoking Flame,” c. 1635-1640
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Franz Stuck“Male Study (A Bad Conscience),” 1896
Franz Stuck“Male Study (A Bad Conscience),” 1896
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Charity Grigsby lives in a tumbledown shanty about nine miles...
Ms. Grigsby's Home Charity Grigsby, Livingston, AlabamaCharity Grigsby lives in a tumbledown shanty about nine miles from Livingston on the old Epes road. She was sewing on a quilt when I arrived;...
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