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Landmarks and places photographed before the world recognised them — dated, sourced and captioned.
The permit was for twenty years. Gustave Eiffel saved his tower by making it too useful to dismantle — and the construction photographs show a structure that was never meant to last.
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Before it stood in New York Harbor, the statue filled a workshop off the rue de Chazelles — a hand the size of a room, a head that tourists paid to walk into.
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