A Dreamer in Paris

Book published in 1904 which you can see here

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Egyptian birds : for the most part seen in the Nile Valley

Book can be viewed here

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Photos by Marion Post Wolcott

Interesting collection found in the Library of Congress with no restrictions on publication. Most of the photos document the situation of farm labourers in the 1930s. 

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California : the land of the sun (1914) by Sutton Palmer

This book can be found here in all its glory

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Hiroshige Andō 1797-1858

A collection of 392 artworks can be seen  in the  Library of Congress' Digital Collection

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The history of little Jane and little Charles

Published around 1851 and you can read it here

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Boats by William Henry Jackson

Nine men on sailing boat            

Bangkok - three women on small boat in the Menam River

     Rice boat on the Irrawaddy heading for Rangoon 

 Calcutta - thatch-roofed boat in foreground; bathers and cows in background   

Woman poleing [sic] small boat

 Fast river passenger boat with brigantine ship in background, China 

All these photographs are by William Henry Jackson and can be found on the Library of Congress' website

                

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