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Bell Piano with Ivory Keys
A photograph showing a detail of a Canadian Bell piano with ivory and ebony keys.
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Transporting Ivory, French Congo
A c. 1902 photograph showing Africans transporting ivory in French Congo.
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Ivory Trading Station, French Congo
A late-19th-century photograph of an ivory trading station (factory) in French Congo.
Private Collection.
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19th-Century Ivory Traders, East Africa,
An 1880s photograph of ivory traders in East Africa.
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Portrait of Sultan Mahmud II
Portrait of Sultan Mahmud II, oil on canvas painting by Athanasios Karantz(ou)las, c. 1850. A reformer, Sultan Mahmud II implemented numerous changes to the Ottoman state, which among many included the disbandment of...
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Portrait of Ali Pasha of Yanina
Portrait of Ali Pasha of Yanina, oil on canvas painting by Spyridon Ventouras, 1818. Ali Pasha served as the governor of Ottoman controlled Yanina (western Rumelia) and excercised a high level of autonomy separate...
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Lithograph of Miloš Obrenović
Miloš Obrenović, lithograph by unknown artist, included in Konstantin N. Nenadović's The life and works of the great Đorđe Petrović Kara-Đorđe, p.539, 1903. Prince of Serbia and a leading figure of Serbian nationalism...
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Ten Famous Aesop's Fables and Their Lessons - Foundational Moral Tales from the Ancient Hellenic World
An infographic of Aesop's Fables. For over two millennia, the fables have remained among the most influential moral tales in world literature. Traditionally dated...
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The Julio-Claudian Dynasty, The Rise of Imperial Rome - From Augustus to Nero - Rome's First Imperial Family
The Julio-Claudian dynasty (27 BCE–68 CE) oversaw the establishment and consolidation of the Roman Empire following the political crises and civil wars that...
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Map of the Taifa Kingdoms of Iberia, 1031–1086 - Al-Andalus between Córdoba and the Almoravids
The first taifa period followed the collapse of Umayyad authority in al-Andalus. The Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba (756–929) had become the Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031...
