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Berlin, Neues Museum, Egyptian statue in the middle of the rubble, 17.11.1949.

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1st December 1936: The ruins of the Egyptian Hall at the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in Sydenham, south London, destroyed by a fire.

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Crystal Palace on fire, London, 30 November 1936. [Photograph by Edward G Malindine].

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Destroyed Mshatta façade in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 1948.

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Market gate of Miletus in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, after 1945

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Burnt-out staircase of the Neues Museum, Berlin, after 1945

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Sally Clark poses with two lions she bagged on the Serengetti Plains in 1928. The Clarks were collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History.

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The band--"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast". 
Hand-colored photographic print on stereo card (stereograph, albumen) [Photo by Eugene Haines].

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Marseille - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (postcard, dated 1916)

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William Temple Hornaday (center), chief taxidermist at the United States National Museum (now the Smithsonian Institute) from 1882 to 1890, works on an exhibit in the museum’s laboratory (circa 1880).

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