Photograph: 1880s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A passenger on the Monongahela Incline, built to transport workers to and from Coal Hill
At one point it had two funicular lines, one for passengers and one for freight. The freight line was demolished but the passenger line still works today after several renovations in its 150 years story.
Like Zaera who lives out of her catalyst , roaming from system to system in search of her prey, without a father to smack her bottom when she needed it?
Photograph: Oh no, the secret is unveiled! A staged depiction of Bluebeard’s wives by John C. Browne (1866)
This was such a popular act that Harper’s Bazaar provided a guide on how the house women could stage the scene with the severed heads of Bluebeard’s wives:
Because they were told NOT TO open the door that they should not open even if they had the key, and they betrayed Bluebeard’s trust and opened the door. Thus Bluebeard had them executed and by the time he marries the protagonist of the story he’s already beheaded seven nosy wives.
The story was written as a children’s tale with two morals in 1699 but it fell off that cathegory by the first half of the 20th century because it’s frankly difficult to write around the fact that he has killed his former wives and the last one is rescued in the nick of time by her brothers.