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  The Industrial revolution begins and leans towards the destruction of the natural environment.
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  Karl Bodmer used the Fox River in Indiana as inspiration for this painting to show how nature was untouched.
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  William Trost Richards painted this shoreline image to romanticize the ocean on the east coast of New Jersey, near Atlantic City.
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  Tom Uttech painted this image of a bear cub watching nature and the chaos that has evolved from industrialization.