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In the midst of all this life, what won’t die is the music

Alice Austen, “New York City, 1897. The organ grinder and his wife.” Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013646372/. Contrast and detail restored.
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Be comforted, Justice Alito. History occasionally sides with the persecuted.



Source: Frederick Burr Opper, Puck 11 May 1881: 178. Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/90707487/. Photoshopped.

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