Images Dated 8th December 2011

Naval battle between the British and French, 1790s

British ship "Brunswick" in battle with French navy off the coast of Brittany, late 1700s.
Printed color halftone reproduction of an illustration

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Sinking of the Titanic

Titanic's stern in the air as the ship sinks in the North Atlantic, 1912.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration from eyewitness reports

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Deacon Giles's Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s

"Bringing back the rum," temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

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