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Mark Twain looking out the window of the octagonal study in which he did all his writing during summers at Quarry Farm.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College, Elmira, NY.

Reading room at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library.
Photo credit: © New York Public Library Archives, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard (now the TCL Chinese Theatre), a frequent site of movie premieres like those in Nathanael West's novel Day of the Locust, was inspired not by authentic Chinese temple architecture, but by popular, contemporary, Chinese-influenced Chippendale design featured in photos the architects clipped from Connoisseur magazine.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

What's Left of Big Foot's Band. Group of Miniconjou Lakota Sioux, 1891.
Photo credit: John C. H. Grabill, Deadwood, SD; courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
Crowded neighborhood of Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side in 1907.
Photo credit: Photo by Jacob Riis, Underwood & Underwood; courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
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