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The lady and the diver ('Miss
Bernhardt, the Ocean Empress') Film copy negative, anonymous, c. 1880 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
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| A seated woman in ornate Victorian dress poses with serene elegance, while beside her, a deep-sea diver looms like a visitor from another realm. The pairing reads as visual jest—an improbable duet in the spirit of 19th-century fascination with spectacle and the strange. |
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