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Hutchinson Family Singers, 1845. Creator: Unknown

Hutchinson Family Singers, 1845. The original members of the Hutchinson Family Singers were thirteen of the sixteen children of Jesse and Mary Hutchinson of Milford, New Hampshire. The eleven sons and two daughters made their singing debut in the late 1830s and at first sang sentimental, patriotic tunes celebrating the virtues of rural life. In 1842, however, they began to associate closely with the abolitionists, and soon their repertory of songs championed such reformist causes as temperance, women's rights, and above all, the abolition of slavery. Both praised and vilified by the press and public, America's first group of social protest folk singers performed throughout the country for more than fifty years

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They sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver , (mid-late

They "sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver", (mid-late 19th century). Biblical scene, from Genesis 37: 28: Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. Joseph is sold to the Ishmaelites by his own brothers. Engraving after a work of the 18th century

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Mysterious affair in Beziers, 1930. Creator: Unknown

Mysterious affair in Beziers, 1930. La Mysterieuse Affaire De Beziers'. Dr Laget, accused of attempting to poison his sister, is brought face-to-face with her. Pierre Laget, a dentist in Beziers in southern France, was accused of poisoning both his first and second wives with arsenic, and of attempting to poison his sister Marie-Louise. He was found guilty and condemned to death, but was pardoned by the president, Paul Doumer, and exiled to Cayenne. He committed suicide in 1944, by swallowing poison. Front cover of "Le Petit Journal Illustre". [France, 9 March 1930]

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