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Hotel No Snoring Poster!

circa 1926: A handwritten sign tacked onto the wall of a grubby hotel room warns the occupant that snoring is forbidden. "Vistors must not snore. Those addicted to night noises can be transferred to floors 12 to 14 on application to check clerk."
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Woman riding champagne bottle at new year art nouveau 1897

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme catala in Catalan, etc. In English it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Epoque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
Original edition from my own archives
Source : Jugend Band 1 - 1897
Fritz Dannenberg ( Munchen )

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Amrican Native People, chromolithograph, published in 1896

Amrican Native People: 1) American Eskimo woman; 2) Greenlandic Eskimo; 3) Aleut; 4) Dakota; 5) Comanche; 6) Ojibwe; 7) Blackfoot; 8) Sioux; 9) Absarokee; 10) Apache; 11) Pawnee; 12) Mestizo; 13) Aztec; 14) Mexican; 15 - 16) Creole; 17) Peruvian; 18) Bolivian; 19) Cambeba; 20) Gaucho; 21) Quitu; 22) Guarani; 23) Pehuenche; 24) Bakairi; 25) Abipon; 26) Inca; 27) Araucanian; 28-29) Aymore; 30) Tehuelche (Aonikenk); 31) Ticuna; 32) Selk'nam. Chromolithograph, published in 1896.