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The transept, inside Crystal Palace, Hyde Park. From "Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851." England; 1854. Shelfmark: Cup.652.c.33 volume 2 Page Folio Number: frontispiece
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The transept, inside Crystal Palace, Hyde Park. From "Dickinson's comprehensive...

View of New Lanark. Lithograph; 19th century. New Lanark is a small 18th-century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen (1771-1858) moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism.
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View of New Lanark. Lithograph; 19th century. New Lanark is a small 18th-centu...

Vladimir Krinski: "Ein Tempel der Maschinenanbeter - A Temple of Machine Worshippers". Russia, about 1917. Lithograph.
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Vladimir Krinski: "Ein Tempel der Maschinenanbeter - A Temple of Machine Worship...

A spinning wheel is found in most houses in central and eastern Bhutan where weaving is an important economic activity. H: 41 cm, L:41,5 cm
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A spinning wheel is found in most houses in central and eastern Bhutan where...

Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious sites and works of art, rebuilding has begun in many monasteries and in Potala Palace. Here, singing workers pound the gravel floor of a hall.
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Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religiou...

Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious sites and works of art, rebuilding has begun in many Tibetan monasteries and in Potala Palace. Workers sift gravel, women carry heavy loads of building materials on their backs.
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Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious...

View of the Salzbergtal near Hallstatt. Slope of Niedere Sieg in the foreground. Here the Hallstatt burial site was discovered, which gave the "Hallstatt Period" (9th-5th BCE) its name.
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View of the Salzbergtal near Hallstatt. Slope of Niedere Sieg in...

View from the prehistoric saltmines at Hallstatt, Austria, across the likely site of habitations which have not yet been found.
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View from the prehistoric saltmines at Hallstatt, Austria, across the like...

Site and wall of a Hallstatt blockhouse, discovered after 1846 by Johann Georg Ramsauer, from a collection of 19th century watercolours painted on the site by Isidor Engel in 1878. Ramsauer began the excavations in 1846.
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Site and wall of a Hallstatt blockhouse, discovered after 1846 by Johann Geo...

Corner of a blockhouse in Hallstatt, discovered in 1877 on the bank of the river Sagbach.
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Corner of a blockhouse in Hallstatt, discovered in 1877 on the bank of t...

Heart-shaped marks show how Hallstatt Period miners extracted blocks of salt from rock walls (8th-3rd BCE).
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Heart-shaped marks show how Hallstatt Period miners extracted...

Heart-shaped marks show how Hallstatt Period miners extracted salt from a rock wall (8th-3rd BCE).
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Heart-shaped marks show how Hallstatt Period miners extracted...