Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land

Photographs of Auto Polo (ca. 1912)

Animated GIFs: Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908)

Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908)

Come Take a Trip in my Airship (1904)

Animated GIFs: Fleischer’s Bubbles (1922)

Ernst Haeckel’s Radiolaria (1862)

Frederick Whitney’s Blackboard Sketching (1909)

A little wander down the catwalk of time...

The Coronation of King Ladislaus of Poland (1633)

Edison’s backwards bicycle rider (1899)

That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)

Frank Desprez’s “Lasca” read by Harry E. Humphrey (1920)

Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)

The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson (1904)

A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program

Women having tea in Napier, New Zealand (ca.1890)

Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838)

The Belly of a Horse (1820)

The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell, the Tattooed Man (1845)

The Somersault Man (1923)

The First Tour de France (1903)

The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)

Pollen Up Close (1837)