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		thedougd on Oct 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (... Neat. When I look at old pictures like the one in the article, I wonder, is it foggy, smokey, or just an artifact of the photograph?

smegger001 on Oct 19, 2021 [–]

In this case possibly all three. in Victorian England you probably had lots of coal smoke produced by everything form home heating & cooking wide spread rail travel, to powering every industry, being England fog is very likely, and the photography technology was fairly primitive. so all of the above

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