Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I read that the person in the wheel was often blind. It was one way for them to make a living.

[–] Wigners_friend@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what happened when they weren't blind? Did people just do shifts when blind?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Just get a hot poker and fix the problem