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Wikipedia editor and amateur singer with a day job as a systems admin. Recently focused on adding images and references to biographical articles and doing Spanish-English translations for Women in Red.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 20h
Tennyson's Heroines VIII. – Lynette by Amédée Forestier
Black and white drawing of a woman in a hooded cloak holding a riding whip
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 2d
Admiral Henry Keppel and Queen Alexandra
Black and white photo of an older man in a short cap holding hands with a woman in a hat and veil.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 4d
Odol mouthwash ad from The Sketch, January 20, 1904
Black and white drawing of a hand holding a small curved-neck bottle labeled Odol
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 5d
The Humourist at the Pantomime: Studies in Expression by Frank Reynolds
Drawing of a woman and two men in formal dress peering down from a balcony
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 6d
Muriel Duncombe, Viscountess Helmsley, photographed by Alice Hughes

Also, for comparison, how it looked in Google Books when I started.
Black and white photo of a woman Photo of a woman covered with rainbow moiré
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 12d
Pauline Chase in The School Girl
Black and white photo of a woman in Edwardian dress with a parasol in front of a city background
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 14d
Lady Hermione Grimston photographed by Alice Hughes for The Sketch in 1904
Black and white photo of a woman
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 15d
James White Cloud (fourth from right) with his wife Louise, son Louie, and family
Black and white group photo of a Native American extended family. James White Cloud is wearing a necklace of bear claws.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 15d
Madeleine Germaine Aaron, poet and writer for The Wichita Eagle
Black and white photo of a woman holding a letter and standing over a table with a huge pile of letters on it
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 16d
Dr. Emma Selkin Aronson, circa 1918
"Dr. Aronson's right leg was amputated in 1950 as the result of a thrombosis, but she had a special chair built and continued in practice at the New York Infirmary[...] Until she was 62, Dr. Aronson had served as chief of gynecology at Bronx hospital.
Black and white photo of a woman
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 17d
Neurologist and pathologist Dr. Mary Angela Spink

One of the first women graduates of Indiana University, she served as president of Fletcher Sanitarium and was a frequent visitor to Teddy Roosevelt's White House
Black and white photo of a woman
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 18d
Cartoon by Charles Harrison from The Sketch, November 4, 1903
"Penny 'addock, please; and father says, will you wrap it up in a newspaper wot supports Mr. Chamberlain."
A girl in Edwardian dress talking to a fishmonger
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 19d
Graves of William Tecumseh Sherman, his wife Eleanor, and son William Jr., who died of typhoid at age 9, at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis
An American flag and a row of four tall graves A grave marker with crossed flags A cross-shaped grave marker A grave marker with crossed rifles and a drum, marked "Our little sergeant, Willie"
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 21d
I think that's buried in Mexico City.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 21d
Decorations on the grave of William S. Burroughs at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis
Gravestone with a notepad, plush raccoon or lemur or something, several pens, a couple of dollar bills, a rubber wristband, seashell, coins, and what might be a small kerosene lamp
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 22d
Graves of Charles and Ray Eames at Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis
A low gray gravestone with a stylized black dove design in the center
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 24d
Grave of Tennessee Williams at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis

Turns out Ernie Ford isn't buried in the state you'd expect either.
An upright pinkish gravestone with some pebbles and flowers at its base
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 25d
Actress Sybil Arundale and friend
Photo of a woman with a...terrier of some sort I think.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 26d
Cinderella by R. C. Carter
Drawing of a girl kneeling on a cut-stone floor in front of a wall with a projection of a richly dressed woman and man walking into a ball with two attendants bowing
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 27d
Well, babies, don't you panic.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 28d
Bill McClintock is at it again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTk...
Van Summer - "I'll Wait for Bad Girls"
YouTube video by Bill McClintock
www.youtube.com
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · 28d
Resignation by Clifford Roger Fleming Williams
Drawing of a man and woman sitting on a country fence, with the man's arm around the woman and two bicycles in the foreground, one upturned
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · Sep 29
December 1903 ads for Plasmon and St Ivel Christmas plum puddings
Ads with "PLASMON: The Food Enricher" and "St. Ivel Gold Medal. Christmas Plum Puddings". Drawing of a plum pudding with a small adult figure standing on top and two children at its base.
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · Sep 29
Wright's Coal Tar Soap ad from The Sketch, December 16, 1903
Drawing of a snowy scene with a girl in a winter coat and hands in a muff. "Wright's Coal Tar Soap. Keeps the skin soft and smooth even in the hard winter months. The nursery soap. Protects from all infectious diseases."
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Nick Number @nicknumber.bsky.social · Sep 28
Motoring in Normandy: A Story Without Words by Georges Redon