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    “Зимний пейзаж, на лыжной прогулке в горах Заилийского Ала-Тау.” (“Winter landscape, on a ski trip in the Zailiyskiy Ala-Tau mountains.”)

    Photo postcard printed by Foto “Dinamo” in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, 1956. Photograph by I. Budnevicha (И. Будневича).

    From my personal collection.

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    Press photograph showing Engelbert Dollfuß playing with building blocks with his children Rudolf and Eva, printed in 1934 by Ernst Gersdorff (Vienna) following the chancellor’s assassination.

    The reverse of the photo reads:

    “Telephot - Wiener Bureau - EGV. / Bundeskanzler Dr. Dollfuss ermordet. / Unser Bild zeigt: Bundeskanzler Dr. Dollfuss beim Baukastenspiel mit seinen Kindern Eva und Rudolfi.”

    From my personal collection.

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    Postage stamp depicting Český Ráj (Czechoslovakia, now Czechia), issued 1936.

    Designed by Karel Vik, engraved by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Seizinger.

    Found on the ground in Bucharest in 2025.

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    Illustration depicting St. Benedict’s meeting with Totila, King of the Goths, from a 1444 manuscript in the collection of Schottenstift (Vienna).

    Scanned from a greeting card.

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    Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan (1902–1980)

    Selected illustrations for Sholem Aleichem’s The Bewitched Tailor (דער פֿאַרקישעפֿטער שנײַדער) (Leningrad, 1957)

    Museum of Modern Art

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    Happy 130th Birthday, Ernst Jünger!
    A picture of him strolling through Wilflingen.

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    Portrait of Bernhard Pez (Austrian, b. Ybbs 1683 – d. Melk 1735)

    Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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    Mac Constantinescu (Romanian, 1900–1979)

    Maquette for a postage stamp advertising the 1930 general census, to be engraved by Petre Grant.

    Muzeul Național de Istorie a României

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    Ladislav Treskoň (b. Petrovice (Bytča) 1900 – d. Prague 1923)

    “Ženský akt” (“Female nude”), undated

    Galéria mesta Bratislavy

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    Schluckbildchen (lit. “little swallowable pictures”), Mariazell, Austria, ca. 1930

    Schluckbildchen were small pieces of paper printed with images of the Virgin Mary, which were consecrated in a church. They were part of the ‘spiritual medicine cabinet’ and were intended to protect and cure people and animals from illness. Swallowable images were added to food or feed. By 1930, conventional medicines were already known; however, some people still preferred to rely on God’s protection.”

    Volkskundemuseum Wien

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    Áron Márton (1896–1980), photographed ca. 1930

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    Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)

    “Nach vorne gebeugter Akt” (“Nude bending forwards”), 1917

    Auktionshaus im Kinsky

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    Jozef Hanula (Slovak, 1863–1944)

    “Šuhaj” (“Swain”), sketch ca. 1920-1930

    Slovenská národná galéria

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    Terracotta figure depicting a Macedonian boy in a chlamys (cloak), boots and a kausia (Macedonian cap), Athens, ca. 300 BC

    British Museum / Marie-Lan Nguyen

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    Ludwig Derleth (1870–1948)

    “Der Gottesfreund”, Seraphinische Hochzeit (Salzburg: Otto Müller Verlag, 1939)