Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)

Made in the Trenches: a WW1 Magazine Created by Soldiers (1916)

Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

John Wanamaker recounts a Leo Tolstoy anecdote (1908)

High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910)

Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)

Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

Little Tich and his Big Boot Dance (1900)

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)

Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century

Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)

The Centaurs, a Fragment (1921)

The Man Who Recovered the Use of His Tongue, after Four Years Dumb, by means of a Frightful Dream (1747)

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The Prophecy of the Popes (15th Century)

A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)

The Physiognomy of Hands (1917)

Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa (1858)

Tesseract (2013)

Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000

The Adventures of Cinderella (ca.1810)