1914
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Painters on the Cables: Eugene de Salignac’s 1914 View of the Brooklyn Bridge
On October 7, 1914, municipal photographer Eugene de Salignac captured painters suspended without safety harnesses high above New York City on the steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The Mechanical Heartbeat: Inside New York’s Pneumatic Mail Terminal in 1914
In this 1914 photograph, workers stand amidst the heavy iron machinery of New York’s pneumatic mail terminal, where steel canisters were propelled through a vast subterranean network to bypass the city’s congested streets.
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The Global Imbalance: Imperial Populations in 1914
A comparative look at the demographic scale of the German and British empires on the eve of the First World War, as captured by historical records from 1914.