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    The Human Alphabet
    Images / 
    Design & Typography

    The Human Alphabet

    The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
    Film / 
    Ghosts & Occult

    The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

    Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts

    Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904)

    Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)
    Books / 
    Ghosts & Occult

    Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)

    Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)
    Images / 
    People

    Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)

    The Splash of a Drop (1895)
    Books / 
    Science & Medicine, Geometry & Diagrams

    The Splash of a Drop (1895)

    Finnish Opera Singer Eino Rautavaara (1905–9)
    Audio

    Finnish Opera Singer Eino Rautavaara (1905–9)

    Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography, Geometry & Diagrams

    Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
    Books / 
    Religion, Myth & Legend, Ghosts & Occult

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)

    Opium Destruction, San Francisco (1914)
    Film / 
    Crime & Law, Drugs

    Opium Destruction, San Francisco (1914)

    Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

    Blue-Sky Thinking: *The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight* (1877)
    Books / 
    Science & Medicine, Design & Typography

    Blue-Sky Thinking: The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight (1877)

    The Rowing-Bath (1916)
    Images / 
    Technology

    The Rowing-Bath (1916)

    Silent Night (1912)
    Audio

    Silent Night (1912)

    Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)
    Books / 
    Communication, Crime & Law

    Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)

    Phenakistoscopes (1833)
    Images / 
    Technology

    Phenakistoscopes (1833)

    The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909)
    Books / 
    Food

    The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909)

    Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)

    Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)
    Images / 
    War, Humour & Satire

    Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

    The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Death

    The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

    The Over-Incubated Baby (1901)
    Film / 
    Technology

    The Over-Incubated Baby (1901)

    Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)
    Images / 
    Religion, Myth & Legend

    Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)

    With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825
    Books / 
    Travel & Exploration

    With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825

    The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams
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    Science & Medicine, Religion, Myth & Legend, Ghosts & Occult

    The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams