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A U.K. Researcher Has Unearthed the Original 19th-Century Photo Featured on an Iconic Led Zeppelin Album Cover

news.artnet.com A U.K. Researcher Has Unearthed the Original 19th-Century Photo Featured on an Iconic Led Zeppelin Album Cover | Artnet News

A researcher in Wiltshire, U.K. has uncovered the original source of the image on the cover of the 1971 record, Led Zeppelin IV.

The image was found in an album of photographs taken by Ernest Howard Farmer. ... The man Farmer photographed has also been identified as Lot Long (1823–93), who was a widower residing in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere, when the image was taken.

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Look at that thick removed! Bundle of sticks

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- I see what you did there
  
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- I always understood that the bundle had to be loosely bound.
  
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As someone who has owned this album since about 5 years after it came out, I don't think I would have gotten any further than "That looks somewhat familiar."

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That's a giant 19th century [redacted] on that dudes back.

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- Does it still need to be redacted when you are using it in an entirely proper and unmalicious way?
  
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  Apparently so! We can't hurt the gay bundle of sticks feelings. The F word might be too harsh. Please be open minded and inclusive!
  
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Look at the size of that fag!

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