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Early illustration of 17th-century London's coffeehouse culture
Saturday February 8, 2025. 03:21 PM , from BoingBoing
Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 and was reproduced in William Harrison Ukers' book All About Coffee (1922). What I love about this image is that despite it being from a completely different era, the scene could easily be from today (minus the old clothes and hair-dos). — Read the rest
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