Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)

Indian Sign Talk (1893)

Punctuation Personified (1824)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

“Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

Shy Guy (1947)

C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)

Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)

Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)

Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)

Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915)

“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)

Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)

Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)

Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)

Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)

Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)