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A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
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A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.

Edward Matthew Ward

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: E M Ward July 4th 1848

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