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Cylinder printing press, 1800s

Hoe printing press, showing type locked on the bed and overlays fixed on the cylinder; ink rollers on far right, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Royal Society endorsement of a lens-grinder, 1600s

Optician's advertisement illustrated with Archimedes at a telescope, London, 1694.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 17th-century illustration

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Cotton wharf in Charleston SC, 1870s

Black stevedores loading bales on the cotton wharf in Charleston, South Carolina, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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