Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)
Cheat sheet to help police clerks put into practice Bertillon’s method for classifying and archiving the images of repeat offenders….more
Photographs
Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)
The wonderful imagery documenting Alexander Graham Bell’s experiments with tetrahedral kites….more
The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas
A series of extraordinary group portraits, made between 1915 and 1921, comprised of thousands of servicemen and staff from various US military camps arranged into p…more
Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)
The Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments Cast in Composition and Wood Fibre for Woodwork-Furniture features samples of wood carvings offered by the Decorators …more
Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)
Collection of stellated and uniform polyhedra belonging to Max Brückner , a German geometer….more