The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath

The Burning Stable (1896)

Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

Arcimboldo-esque Composite Portraits of Trades (ca. 1800)

The Spinning Sow (1673)

Scenes from Rip Van Winkle (1903)

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)

The Wise Boys: or, The Entertaining Histories of Fred Forethought, Matt Merrythought, Luke Lovebook and Ben Bee (ca. 1842)

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? (1863)

John McCormack - Recordings: 1911-1940

Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

Maniac Chase (1904)

Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)

A Journey Round my Room (1871 edition)

Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble (1921)

Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

Francesco Tamagno sings Verdi’s Otello, Death Scene (1903)

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

Despotism (1946)

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)