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The realistic jungle menagerie, circus poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1897

Torajirō Kasai: Wedding of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Kujō Sadako, 1900

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth. The realistic jungle menagerie, as seen in the great...

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Wedding of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Kujō Sadako. The Crown Prince and the Princess at...

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The Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Florida, 1900

Mosa, Mohave girl, by Edward S. Curtis, 1903

The Royal Poinciana Hotel (the postcard misspells it as "Ponciana") was a Gilded Age hotel...

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Original title: "Mosa – Mohave". Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Mohave (Mojave)...

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Helen Lee Worthing, Ziegfeld girl, by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1920

Female trapeze acrobats at circus, ca. 1890

Ziegfeld Girl Helen Lee Worthing, three-quarter length portrait, seated, right profile, nude, with...

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Female acrobats on trapezes at circus. Hand-colored lithograph by the Copyright by the...

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South face from the dike, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1895

Monks' cloister, abbaye de Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1895

From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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East face, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1895

Knights' hall, la Merveille, abbaye de Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1895

From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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North-east face, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1895

The abbaye from the ramparts, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1895

From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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Olga, Elizabeth, & Marina, daughters of Prince and Princess of Greece, ca. 1910

Gentry Bros. Circus, Miss Louise Hilton, the greatest rider the world has ever known, performing arts poster, ca. 1920

From the George Grantham Bain Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More Bain News photos |...

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Gentry Bros. Circus. Miss Louise Hilton, the greatest rider the world has ever known. Circus poster...

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Mt. Fox and Mt. Dawson with Dawson's Glacier from Asulkan Pass, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, 1902

Rubber tree in the U.S. barracks, Key West, Florida, 1900

From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards...

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From the Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More postcards from the...

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Brightest London is best reached by Underground, subway poster, 1924

John Vachon: Ak-sar-ben toll bridge between Iowa and Nebraska, 1938

Brightest London is best reached by Underground. Advertising poster by Horace Taylor for the London...

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Ak-sar-ben toll bridge at Omaha between Iowa and Nebraska. Photograph by John Vachon for the Farm...

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