January 2012
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Civil War Amputee Tintype Photograph and a Naive... →
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The first amputee of the Civil War was James Edward Hanger, an unfortunate 18-year-old who promptly commenced carving his own replacement leg out of wood scraps. Three months later he was…
“The Victorian period was not only a haunted age; it was also, in every sense of...”
– Ronald Pearsall, The Table-Rappers: The Victorians and the Occult (via musicistheart
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