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The Actor Arashi Ryuzo II as Hachijo, Wet Nurse of Taira no Kiyomori, in Act Three of

The Actor Arashi Ryuzo II as Hachijo, Wet Nurse of Taira no Kiyomori, in Act Three of the Play Gempei Hashira-goyomi (Pillar Calendar of the Genji and Heike Clans), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1795, c. 1795

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Verdunois at the Gare de l'Est Station, 1915/17. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen

Verdunois at the Gare de l'Est Station, 1915/17

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Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance"), 1864/65. Creator: S. C

Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance"), 1864/65. [Portrait of Sojourner Truth, born Isabella "Belle" Baumfree (c. 1797-1883), African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in upstate New York, but escaped with her infant daughter in 1826. She copyrighted her own image, allowing the activist who had herself once been sold as property, to profit from the sale of her photograph. Here she holds a piece of knitting. The printed caption alludes to one of photography's early slogans: "Secure the shadow [the photograph] ere the substance [body] fade"]. Albumen print

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