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# Library of Congress

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Check out these images of 19th century Ireland
Poorhouses and midnight mass: What Christmas was like in 1901 Ireland
U2's Joshua Tree album to be preserved in US Library of Congress
Mardi Gras in New Orleans a century ago was still a wild party
In photos: Archive tourist snaps from Egypt
In pictures: archive photos of Cuba's Havana from the early 1900s
In colour: America through World War II
In pictures: New York City street scenes from the early 1900s