Burying Victims Of The Plague Of London
by Print Collector
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Burying Victims Of The Plague Of London
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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Burying victims of the Plague of London at night in multiple graves, 1665. Two of the men are smoking pipes, partly to combat the stench of the corpses, partly in the hope that tobacco smoke would prevent them becoming infected. (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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January 28th, 2021
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