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Images of Children

Many magazines, papers and books from the Victorian period contain some of the most beautiful depictions of children involved in all kinds of activities. Images of dazzling rosy-cheeked children were used to entire parents into buying company producats. Since a lot of the buyers were parents, they were attracted to the advertisements featuring children.

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