Images Dated 26th February 2019

Three Brothers Mountain in Yosemite National Park at Sunrise Reflected in the Merced

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See Saw Margery Daw - Victorian nursery rhyme illustration

Margery Daw sitting on a seesaw holding a bag of coins, which she has acquired through selling her mattress to a man who, for some reason, is wearing several hats. The nursery rhyme calls her a dirty slut and it should be explained that slut did not always have the current meaning of a sexually promiscuous woman - it used to mean a woman who was slovenly, lazy, didn't do housework, or who was untidy in appearance. So Margery Daw has sold her bed, not her body.
"See Saw Margery Daw - Sold her bed and lay upon straw - Wasn't she a dirty slut - To sell her bed and lie in he dirt."
From "Nursery Rhymes - Ridicula Rediviva" illustrated by J.E. Rogers, with chromolith printing by R. Clay Sons & Taylor and published in London in 1876 by Macmillan and Co

Royal Carriage

19th March 1953: The intricate decoration on the State Coach that will take the Queen to Westminster Abbey for the coronation. The coach has been painstakingly restored, retiled and prepared for the great occaision. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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