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The Brazilian imperial family

From João VI’s court in Rio to Pedro I, Pedro II and Princess Isabel — then the split into the Vassouras and Petrópolis branches of Orléans-Braganza, with Pedro Henrique’s thirteen children.

50 people · 8 generations

Old family pictures, with the faces named. Point at a face to see who it is, or open a person to follow them to the tree.

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Scan a photograph from the shoebox — a wedding, a Sunday on the porch, the grandparents young — and name the people in it. Each face becomes a door to that person on the tree.

Isabel de Bragança

1846–1921

Woman

Imperial princess and three-time regent. Signed the Lei Áurea abolishing slavery in 1888.

Papers

Lei Áurea, 13 May 1888 Paper