And to the below someone replied the above: 

contribution to the meme-verse

Bucharest as depicted in very detailed illustrations in the London Illustrated News.

1853 http://cdn.anonfiles.com/1331849463246.pdf

1854 http://cdn.anonfiles.com/1331849558317.pdf (bottom of the page)

1866 http://cdn.anonfiles.com/1331850036471.pdf

About the London Illustrated News here. 

Photography, as a direct aid to the wood engraver, began to be used after Scott Archer’s collodion process had been.published in 1851. Hitherto, daguerreotypes had been traced and pencilled on the wood-block, but usually the printed results lacked photographic realism. The collodion process yielded a photographic image of an artist’s drawing on the surface of the box-wood and thus the engraver could do his work without the delay and expense of having a pencilled drawing made on the wood. Some of the engravings published in the ILN of the Great Exhibition of 1851; and of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham during 1853-54, have a very “photographic” appearance. Photography “on the wood” continued to be used until the end of the ‘eighties when the halftone and line processes came into general use for the rapid production of illustrations.

as a long-time book sniveller and subsequent book/author avoider, I feel avenged…but only slightly. 

hat.shoes.circa 1988.

Wikander, Ulla, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis. 1995. Protecting women: labor legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

The year was 1952.

maybe this is the place where my commitment to liberalism comes to hide. i’d argue against it, but then again…why do it on a sunday.

and now for a little cotillon