
William K.L. Dickson
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.
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Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
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Annie Oakley (1894)
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Caicedo (with Pole) (1894)
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Men Boxing (1891)
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Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing (1898)
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Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1898)
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The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (1898)
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Blacksmithing Scene (1893)
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His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (1898)
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Buffalo Bill (1894)
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Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)
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Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (1898)
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Bucking Broncho (1894)
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Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)
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Horse Shoeing (1893)
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Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (1898)
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A Hand Shake (1892)
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Dickson Greeting (1891)
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The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Fencing (1892)
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Hadj Cheriff (1894)
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Les Parisiennes (1897)
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Duncan Smoking (1891)
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Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
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Buffalo Dance (1894)
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Annabelle Sun Dance (1894)
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Sandow: The Strong Man (1894)
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Carmencita (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (1898)
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Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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Butterfly Dances (2007)
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King John (1899)
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Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
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Newark Athlete (1891)
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The Barber Shop (1894)
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Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)
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Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Awakening of Rip (1896)
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The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
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Wrestling (1892)
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The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting of a Detachment of Noble Guards, Commanded by Count Pecci, Followed by a Palatine Guard of Honour, Swiss Guard, Gendarmes and Fire Brigade (1898)
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Rip's Toast (1896)
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Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 (1898)
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Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (1891)
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A Watermelon Feast (1896)
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Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa (1898)
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
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Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (1895)
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Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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Newark athlete. [No. 2] (1891)
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Dance (1894)
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Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)
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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
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The Boxing Cats (1894)
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Mills from the Zaanstreek (1898)
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Bath Scene (1897)
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The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894)
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Sandow (1896)
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
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Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (1891)
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The Cock Fight (1894)
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Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (1899)
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Flower Parade in Haarlem (1899)
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Man on Parallel Bars (1892)
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Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
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Fred Ott Holding a Bird (1894)
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Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
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Fire Rescue Scene (1894)
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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)
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Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
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Maidenhead Junction (1898)
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Band Drill (1894)
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Sound Money Parade (1896)
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Dancing Darkies (1896)
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Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot (1898)
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Monkey and Another, Boxing (1891)
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Has He Hit Me? (1897)
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Ruth Dennis (1894)
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Venice, harbour scene with gondolas (1898)
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Fatima (1897)
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Ten Pickaninnies (1908)
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The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” (1894)
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The Boulevard of Scheveningen (1898)
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Annabelle Dances and Dances (1997)
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Imperial Japanese Dance (1894)
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Nabbed by the Nipper (1902)
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Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
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From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton (1898)
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Rat Killing (1894)
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Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898)
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Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)
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London Fire Brigade, Alarm (1899)
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Dutch Fishing Fleet (1900)
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In a German Bath (1899)
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Rip Van Winkle (1896)
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Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898)
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Trained Bears (1894)
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Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894)
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Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris (1897)
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Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895)
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Chinese Laundry Scene (1894)
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Lasso Thrower (1894)
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Warships at Sunset (1900)
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Chinese Opium Den (1894)
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Mlle. Capitaine (1894)
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English Nell (1900)
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James Grundy, Buck and Wing (1895)
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Mr. Hurry-up (1907)
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Away Aloft (1899)
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Wrestling Match (1894)
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Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (1898)
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In the Friedrichstrasse (1899)
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Indian War Council (1894)
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Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (1901)
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Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900)
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View on Boulevard, New York City (1896)
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An Obstinate Cork (1902)
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Brook Trout Fishing (1900)
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Man Overboard! (1899)
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Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle (1902)
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Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (1901)
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Military Exercise - Aldershot (1898)
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The Grand Canal, Venice (1898)
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Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)
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Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (1898)
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He and She (1898)
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Upside Down Boxers (1899)
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Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (1898)
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Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns (1900)
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French Military School Exercise (1897)
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The Bridge of Sighs, Venice (1898)
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Crissie Sheridan (1897)
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A Bar Room Scene (1894)
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A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies (1897)
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Athlete with Wand (1894)
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Launch of the 'Oceanic' (1899)
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Boxing Match (1894)
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Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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New Blacksmith Shop (1895)
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Annabelle in Flag Dance (1896)
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Highland Dance (1894)
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Fun on a Sand Hill (1899)
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Tram Journey through Southampton (1900)
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Home Life of a Hungarian Family (1897)
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Duel to the Death (1898)
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Changing Guard (Berlin) (1897)
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Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun (1897)
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Mexican Knife Duel (1894)
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The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton (1899)
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Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (1895)
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Funeral Procession of the Misericordia (1898)
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Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (1898)
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From Monte Carlo to Monaco (1899)
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American Falls from Luna Island (1896)
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Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (1899)
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Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899)
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Rats and Terrier No. 2 (1894)
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Place de la Concorde (1897)
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A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby (1895)
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Hard Wash (1896)
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Rats and Weasel (1894)
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Amann, the Great Impersonator (1899)
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The Tarantella, an Italian Dance (1898)
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Firing the Maxim Gun (1897)
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Cock Fight, No. 2 (1894)
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American Falls from Goat Island (1896)
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Capuchin Monks in Vatican City (1898)
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Rats and Terrier No. 3 (1894)
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A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898)
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Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (1898)
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