A collection of rare photos features men of the late 1800s in surprisingly intimate embraces

March 5, 2017 Posted By: Leave a comment
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c. 1880s

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 2008, Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell passed away, bequeathing a trove of curios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mitchell was an obsessive collector of historical ephemera, from quotidian trade catalogs of wallpapers and plumbing supplies to

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