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The backgrounds before 1930 are real period works in the public domain. From 1930 on they're original illustrations, since those decades are mostly still in copyright.

Period images

Original backgrounds

Answer pictures

Pictures of the answers come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences; thanks to every author below.

Answer data

Chart, book, box-office, city, empire and structure lists via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the scholarship it cites. Names: U.S. Social Security Administration. US cities: U.S. Census Bureau. Attention data: Wikimedia Foundation pageviews (CC0) and Wikidata (CC0). Life in another time: curated from the encyclopedia and history references named on each answer.

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