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   epilsk 
   

   What is the animal in the picture on the front row?

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   Craig ! 
   

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Rush

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   Craig ! 
   

   Epilsk – It’s a lap dog. The cameras at the time required long exposures – people needed to sit still while the shot was taken. The dog clearly couldn’t

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   marthe esteban 2 
   

   wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can you imagine what these people would have thought if they had been told that in a hundred years time the whole world would see the picture, thanks to tecnology. At the time they were just inventing the light! In 1877 electric lights were only used by a few people!
   … they would have certainly asked: what is technology??

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   carmonamedina 
   

   Hi, I’m an admin for a group called School group portrait, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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   Retired at last 
   

   We can’t see what the women are drawing, but I bet it wasn’t a nude such as the men’s class has. http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3018323299/

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   Chee-pow 
   

   Wonderful vintage ladies, nearly unobtainable!