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Ancient lands portrayed by an art in its infancy.(Scene)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20010112
Author:Silver, Joanne

Nearly a century and a half ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes gushed about the thrill of being home in Boston and gazing through a stereoscope at photographic images of faraway places: "I creep over the vast features of Rameses, on the face of his rockhewn Nubian temple," he wrote. "I pace the length of three Titanic stones of the walls of Baalbec. I walk the streets of once buried cities. I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles to the ford of the Jordan, and leave my outward frame in the armchair at my table, while in spirit I am looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of ...

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