From India to the Planet Mars (1900)

Cyanotypes of British Algae by Anna Atkins (1843)

Portraits of Imprisoned Modoc Warriors (1873)

How to use the Dial Telephone (1927)

Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History

Cossack Fairy Tales (1916)

The Telephonoscope (1879)

Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

The Key of Hell: an 18th-Century Manual on Black Magic

Apollinaire’s Calligrammes (1918)

Harry Kellar’s Show Posters

Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865)

The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1910)

The First Circus (1921)

Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)

Hi-Res Images from the Apollo Missions

Illustrations from an Italian Book of Proverbs (1718)

Seeing London (1918)

Gynecological Gymnastics from Outer Space (1895)

The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838

“Interruptions” performed by Tom Woottwell (1909)

Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica

Footage of the Twin Towers Being Built (1976)

Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants