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Noah's Ark Miniature Play Set - Marx Toys (c. 1965)

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“Leaving aside the sombre magnificence of the building, the British Museum embodies so much of the quintessence of Britishness: reverence for the past, scholarship, disregard for the property rights of anyone foreign…. And at the heart of it, famously accommodating beneath its dome, free of charge, writers as diverse as Carlyle, Marx and Wilde, the British Museum Reading Room.”

Maude Adams as Napoleon ll in L'Aiglon (1901-02)

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Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo (1884)

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From the collection of Susan Higginbotham, shared with permission.

The Landowner's Secret (HarperCollins) by Sonya Heaney.

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Photos circa 1898

Photographed by John R. Parsons, 1865, London.

Vintage Seance Spiritualism Photo

Persian cat, circa 1880.

Mme. G.F. Murray (Montreal, QC). William Notman & Son. 1886.

Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899.

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