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Children climb and play on a large bronze statue of Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland, surrounded by oversized mushrooms in Central Park, New York City.

Illustration by Sir John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

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A Mad Tea Party. Alice meets the March Hare and Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" (1865) by English illustrator and satirical artist Sir John Tenniel.

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