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A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photo of the Russian Revolution (1917).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York City (1911).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photograph of Tolstoy (1908).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing Lewis Hine's famous photograph of a girl in an North Carolina mill (1908).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photograph of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a photograph of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk (1903).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a portrait of Queen Victoria taken on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee (1897).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing one of the first x-rays ever taken (1869).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous portrait of Geronimo (1884).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull (1885).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a well-known photo of Karl Marx (1875).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photo of the completion of the transcontinental railroad (1869).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photograph of Ulysses S. Grant (1864).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous portrait of Robert E. Lee.

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing Mathew Brady's famous photo of the dead at the Battle of Antietam (1862).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken on the eve of the Civil War.

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing a famous photograph by Robert Howlett of a British industrialist (1857).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing Fenton's famous photo of a battlefield in the Crimean War (1855).

A video in the "Mechanical Icon" series discussing one of the first photographs ever taken.

This video introduces "Mechanical Icon," a collection of video essays discussing iconic historical photographs.