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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 10 hours ago (14 children)

Is that Y-shaped tree trunk meant to be there? It seems to me like it's just getting in the way of the press operating

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It supports the beam to allow more or less pressure to be applied to the press, I think.

... I think. I'm not, uh, very mechanically inclined.

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