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Pilchard seine boat, Cornwall County Fisheries Exhibition, Truro, Cornwall. July to August 1893

Pilchard seine boat on the River Kenwyn at Back Quay in Truro, with Samuel Brokenshire carriage factory in the background. A number of carts and carriages are parked on the quay, with a number of onlookers who are possibly workers from the factory. The coach builder, Samuel Brokenshire (also a shoeing smith) is recorded in Kelly's Directory, 1889, at Back Quay, Royal Hotel Yard, Truro. The main Fisheries Exhibition site was a field at the top of Lemon Street and the exhibition ran from 25th July 1893 for a month. Number 11 in a series of glass lantern slides recording the Fisheries Exhibition. Photographer: Unknown

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Optical Department. ca. 1932, Alexandria, Louisiana, USA, SCHNACK'S OPTICAL DEPARTMENT. A complete and entirely separate department devoted exclusively to an optical service second to none. SCHNACK'S OPTICAL DEPARTMENT is in charge of Dr. Lacy Bordelon, a graduate of two optical colleges, whose entire time and thought is given to this important department. SCHNACK'S OPTICAL DEPARTMENT offers you a guaranteed eye examination given under the most sanitary conditions possible with the most modern and scientific instruments in the hands of an expert college graduate of optometry. Prompt service, reasonable prices, personal attention, privacy, - all combine to make SCHNACK'S the perfect optical service

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Nadar Elevating Photography to Art. After a work by Honore Daumier from the French magazine Le Boulevard, May 25, 1863. Nadar was the pseudonym of French photographer Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, 1820 - 1910. Amongst his many accomplishments as a photographer, Nadar was the first person to take aerial photographs; Illustration

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