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“At Work in a Woollen Factory” by Alfred Edward Emslie, depicts several women standing and lined up behind one another in an alternating order. Each one of their workstations is on the other side of the women next to them. They are obviously at work…

This source is from a picture taken from the Battle of the Bulge. The image shows the complete disaster that the battle created. You could see the town that used to exist is completely destroyed and there is not a structure found that is not…

Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by…

The portrait of Frederick II, the Great King of Prussia, was painted by a Swiss portrait artist named Anton Graff in 1781. He was the King of Prussia from 1740-1786. He reformed the military and government, established religious tolerance and granted…

This is an oil on canvas painting called The Conquerors of the Bastille before the Hotel de Ville by a French artist named Delaroche Hippolyte. This painting was created in 1789 when people were on the verge of protests and rebellions of the…

In this picture, it shows a crowd gathered together in Southern Poland holding signs that are pro-Solidarity. Solidarity was a trade union against communism and this picture was one of the many social gatherings to show their support.

In 1842, Lord Anthony Ashley-Copper’s Mines Commission gathered reports from testimonies on the conditions of the mine workers. Among these testimonies include Isabella Read aged 12, who as a coal-bearer carried 100 lbs of coal on her back to support…

This source is a letter sent from an American soldier during World War II, Beal S. Powell, to a woman back in the United States, Lena Lawson. In the letter, Powell, who is stationed in the Philippines, talks about how quickly time has passed and how…