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That camera was like a magnet for boys 😁. Most of the adults just ignored it. Youngsters on the vanguard of new technology, then as now 🙂
 
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Must have been a considerable amount of horse and cow dung on the streets in those days. Imagine the smell.
 
There was one boy that appeared 4 separate times! He must have wanted to be famous. 😉
 
The Eucharistic Congress in London in 1908

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Crowds outside Westminster Cathedral in London during the 1908 International Eucharistic Congress

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Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, the papal legate to the 1908 International Eucharistic Congress in London.

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Why would they have the Eucharistic Congress in London in that day and age, I wonder?
 
I always found Kaiser Wilhelm II to be a bit of a tragic figure.

It’s so crazy that 4 years later almost all of these nations would be at war with each other. I thought Tsar Nicolas II was present for Edward’s funeral as well? Someday I intend to read Barbara Tuchman’s book The Proud Tower about the world 30yrs before the war.
 
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A navy chaplain gives the last rights to a dying soldier with bullets landing all around on the streets of Puerto Cabello. In the background is a sign for the Butcher Shop, or the slaughterhouse. This was during a short lived rebellion in Venezuela in 1962.
 
Workmen in the London Underground removing a concrete wall during construction of the Central line extension to Bank c 1912.

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May 10, 1869: The ceremony marking a major step in the completion of the transcontinental railroad. A Union Pacific locomotive on the right and a Central Pacific locomotive on the left come together at the famous Golden Spike location in Utah, joining the United States from coast to coast by rail. This year is the 150th anniversary.

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That was a momentous occasion for our country (or so I’ve read in history books).
 
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain - Britain’s declaration of war on Germany , 3rd September 1939

 
Members of the Sisters of Mercy in front of their convent at Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, in 1956, just before they left to come to California to serve as teachers in our Catholic schools.

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Daguerreotype of Ulfeldts Plads in Copenhagen, Denmark, taken by Peter Faber, the poet and telegraphy specialist. Dated July 1840, it is said to be Denmark’s first photograph.

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Literally the blind leading the blind .

Soldiers blinded in WW1 .

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A statue, of seven blinded First World War soldiers has been placed outside Manchester Piccadilly Station in the north of England as a memorial to the injured of that conflict.

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Oldest known photograph of Rasputin

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Grigory Rasputin with Romanov family.

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Rural Indian family outside of their hut in the 1880s

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Some old photos of saints .

St Therese

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St Pius X on his deathbed

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St Maximilian Kolbe

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St Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia,

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St Damien before leprosy

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St Damien after leprosy

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