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First Sino-Japanese War

Pyongyang, 1894: having been turned on, the electric woodcut now illuminates the universe forever

Kiyochika Kobayashi, “Using an Electric Searchlight in the Attack on P’yongyang.” New York Public Library, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/67998290-1edb-0135-81ac-41f5efb05a68. Color restored.

 

* The original suite of woodcuts:

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