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| 1841 | Central America | Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854) and John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) publish Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. | 1848 | North America - USA Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Straw-hatted gold miner, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada, | Start of the Gold Rush with the vast movements of migrants leading to the establishment of California in 1850. | 1851 | Europe - Great Britain | The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations at Hyde Park in London promoted by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. Louis Jules Duboscq exhibits a Brewster stereograph viewer and it attracts the attention of Queen Victoria. | 1852 | North America - USA | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is published. | 1853 | North America - USA | New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations | 1854 | Asia - Japan Eliphalet Brown, 1856, Eliphalet M. Brown Jr. shooting Daguerreotypes in Okinawa, Lithograph, detail, Private collection of Rob Oechsle, | Japan is opened to outside influences through the actions of Commodore Matthew Perry and his naval expeditions. | 1854 | North America - USA | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods. | 1859 | Europe - Great Britain Unidentified photographer, n.d., Charles Darwin, Albumen print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, | Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species |