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[Avawelles]

Miniatures were small painted portraits. It would be like exchanging photographs today.

[splitbrain → Avawelles]

Ah that makes sense! Thank you.

[firebones → splitbrain]

19th century Snapchat, then?

(All the more reason to read old newspapers: to see what social constructs are timeless (and therefore possibly more fundamentally sound).