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Divers at Work Near a Wreck
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"I had To Crawl Around and Over it"
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At the Top of St. Paul's, New York
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"Then my Partner Stood on my Shoulders"
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"Sometimes in Hard Places You have to Throw Your Nooses Around the Shaft"
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Picture of the Falling Steeple, Photographed just after the Dynamite Exploded. The Falling Section was 35 Feet in Length and Weighed 35 Tons
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Looking from the Ground Upward at St. Paul's Spire, Broadway, New York City
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Gilding a Church Cross, Above New York City
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How the Steeple-Climber Goes up a Flagpole
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Portrait of a Diver. Drawn from Life
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"The Diver's Helmet Showed like the Back of a Big Turtle"
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Diver Standing on Sunken Coal Barge
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The Men at Work with the Air-Pump
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"I Stayed Down until that Chain was Under the Shaft"
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The Man who Attends to the Diver's Signals
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A Diver at Work on a Steamboat's Propeller
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The Author going Down in a Diver's Suit
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The Author after his First Dive. The Face-Plate has been Unscrewed from the Helmet
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"Balloon-Cloth by Hundreds of Yards"
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"Fields that Look like an Eskimo Village"
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"A Pair of Great Wings made of Feathers and Silk—which, alas! would Never Fly"
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Professor Myers in his "Skycycle"
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How the Earth Looks when Viewed from a Height of One Mile. (Photographed from a Balloon.)
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Mme. Carlotta Steering a Balloon by Tipping the Foot-Board
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"In Spite of all their Skill these Indians Found Themselves Presently Lifted into the Air, Canoes and all"
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Mme. Carlotta Calls for Assistance from Another Balloonist Three Miles Away
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A Balloon-Picnic at the AËronauts' Home
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"Stevens Came Down once with a Parachute Two Miles out in the Atlantic Ocean—and was Promptly Rescued"
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The Rescue of the "Oregon's" Passengers
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A Pilot-Boat Riding out a Storm

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