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Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryôgoku Bridge in Edo

Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku Bridge in Edo (Edo Ryogokubashi yusuzumi no kei), Japan, late 18th-early 19th century. People promenading on the bank of the Sumida River in what is now Tokyo. Note archery booth at bottom left

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Swan-Upping on the Thames, from Brentford Ait, 1844. Creator: Unknown

Swan-Upping on the Thames, from Brentford Ait, 1844. Annual event in which mute swans on the River Thames in west London are rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released. The procedure is carried out by members of the the London guilds. In the Thames, at present, the greatest number of swans belong to the Queen, and the Companies of Vintners and Dyers own the next largest proportion; but the birds are far less numerous than they used to be. They are marked upon the upper mandible with a knife or other sharp instrument. The "Swan-upping", or "Swan-hopping", as it is vulgarly termed, is the catching and taking up the swans to mark the cygnets, and renew that on the old birds, if obliterated, in the presence of the royal swan herdsman...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V

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Philadephia, from Below the New South-Street-Bridge, 1874. Creator: Alfred Harral

Philadephia, from Below the New South-Street-Bridge, 1874. Cargo boats on the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. the largest vessels..., their tapering masts and graceful yards presenting a picture which, in a bright, sunny day, might have won the admiration and employed the pencil of Turner. The scene at this point is usually a busy one. Noisy steam-tugs, light sail-boats, scows, canal-boats, and other kinds of craft, crowd the stream, and impart that life and vivacity peculiar to the water-front of a flourishing commercial city'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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