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| 1861 |
| | Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War | |
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| 1866 |
| | US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front | |
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| 1875 |
| | US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers | |
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| 1885 |
| | The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career | |
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| 1886 |
| | The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour | |
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| 1890 |
| | In How the Other Half Lives David Riis alerts middle-class New Yorkers to the appalling slum conditions in lower Manhattan | |
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| 1902 |
| | Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement | |
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| 1905 |
| | The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London | |
| | Jacob and the Angel Epstein, 1941 Tate Britain
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| 1905 |
| | US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York | |
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| 1907 |
| | US cartoonist Bud Fisher creates Mutt and Jeff for the San Francisco Chronicle, in the world's first daily comic strip | |
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