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      <image:caption>Carlisle Public Square, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, looking north-west, circa 1860, zoomable image," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/35804.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Carlisle uniforms; photo: Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration by Charlotte Easterling</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From left to right: Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Edgewood, Pennsylvania; and Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Map: Google Maps</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grand-Pré today, photo: novascotia.ca</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration of Elyse Hilaire by Charlotte Easterling</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Môle-Saint-Nicolas River. Photo: Boukan Guinguette</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mirebalais, Haiti today. Photo: Centre Culturel Spirituel &amp; Traditionel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1: Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia. 2: Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti. 3: Mirebalais, Haiti.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Union Brother - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Illustration of Alan Ellis by Charlotte Easterling</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Union Brother - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Portrait of John L. Lewis. By Paul Thompson - The World's Work: https://archive.org/stream/worldswork43gard#page/454/mode/2up, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30896504</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo: Adirondack Almanack</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map showing the location of Fulton County, Illinois. Map: Google Maps</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Orange, Massachusetts; View from the South Main St. bridge looking north. Image: digitalcommonwealth.org</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo shows a crowd of people at the entrance to a circus tent. On the right, sideshow attractions can be seen. Ca. late 1920s-early 1903s. Photo: fineartstorehouse.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An example of a strongman act: Ivan “The Great” demonstrates his strength by holding a plank with five dancing couples on it. 1924. Photo: rarehistoricalphotos.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration of Dominicus Klimas by Charlotte Easterling</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of the locations in the story, left to right: Nassau, New York (where Dominicus’s father lived); Orange, MA; Athol, MA (where Dominicus’s mother lived); and Nashua, NH. Map: Google Maps.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Salpêtrière in Paris, circa 1670. Image: Wellcome Images</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Pont Neuf in the 1660s. By Unknown author,Jean Petit (d. 1651) (?) - www.wilanow-palac.pl, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20154921</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The journey from Paris to Dieppe would have taken 3-4 days. Map: Google Maps.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Quebec City c1688; image: quebec-cite.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration of Josephine Soulier by Charlotte Easterling</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The interior of Maison Drouin at Ste Famille, built 1730, shows what Josephine and Jacques’s home may have looked like. Photo: S. Girard, bonjourquebec.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A classic rural New France home; photo: Wikimedia (public domain)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A seigneur’s manor, mid 1700’s; image: societies.learnquebec.ca</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The filles du roi disembarked at Quebec City (left) and stayed there until they married. Josephine’s first two husbands lived at Ste Famille, on Île d'Orléans (center). When Josephine married Pierre-Henri, they lived in Rivière-Ouelle (right). Map: Google Maps.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portrait of Landon Baird. Illustration by Charlotte Easterling.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of a Union camp during the Civil War. Photo: warfarehistorynetwork.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo from the Chickamauga Battlefield. Photo: tripadvisor.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ward in the Carver General Hospital, Washington, D.C. Photo: National Archives</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>North Front of the White House at the time of Lincoln's inauguration. Photo: Library of Congress</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>VRC regulation sky blue uniforms (Sergeant Robert Black and Private Herman Beckman of Company F, 8th Veteran Reserve Corps); photo: The Library of Congress, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Surrat. Photo: Mathew Benjamin Brady - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18731589</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gen. John F. Hartranft Reads Warrant Reading the Death Warrant, July 7, 1865. Courtesy Library of Congress</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map showing Athens, OH (top, center), Landon’s home; Chickamauga, GA (bottom), where he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863; and Washington DC (right), where he finished out his service.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MS Gausdal; photo: warsailors.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mesquite Street on September 14, 1919, following the hurricane; photo: Corpus Christi Caller Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>State Senator Harry Hertzberg. Image: By Texas Legislators - http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/mobile/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2433, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65345190</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Galveston in the late 1920s; photo: Galveston Historical Society</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration of Walter DuBois by Charlotte Easterling</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ad for Moody Sanitarium; photo: Texas State Historical Association</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Isley Field, Saipan, 1945; photo: USAAF</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1: Corpus Christi, Texas. 2: Galveston, Texas. 3: San Antonio, Texas (location of the Moody Sanitarium). 4: San Juan, Puerto Rico. 5: Saipan, Mariana Islands. 6: Caracas, Venezuela. 7: Havana, Cuba. The Gausdal was bound for Havana when Walter’s body was disovered. His burial at sea was in the Caribbean.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lincoln County, TN; photo: landwatch.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Washington County, AR; photo: TripAdvisor</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Recreation of the Piasa Thunderbird, first seen in the late 17th century by European explorers near Alton, IL; Photo: Burfalcy/Wiki Commons/CC BY SA 3.0</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration of Evelyn Wallace Waite</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Transcontinental railroad; image: The History Channel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Baker County, OR; photo: landwatch.com</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Location in the story. Top left: Baker County, Oregon; Center top: Washington County, Arkansas. Center bottom: Texarkana, Texas. Top right: Marion, Illinois. Bottom right: Lincoln County, Tennessee.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An example of a girl’s clothing in the 1850s; photo: Pinterest</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1870s fashion plate; image: Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crow Wing historical marker; photo: The Historical Marker Database/Liz Koele, 2021</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Suffragists holding a sign; photo: Lake Agassiz Regional Library</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration of Clara wearing one of the hats made in her shop</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Front Street in Brainerd, MN. Clara’s shop was on this street; photo: Crow Wing County Historical Society</image:caption>
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