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    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass
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    People, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

    Arcimboldo-esque Composite Portraits of Trades (ca. 1800)
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    People, Technology, Humour & Satire

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

    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Ghosts & Occult

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

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

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

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

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

    A Journey Round my Room (1871 edition)
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    Travel & Exploration

    A Journey Round my Room (1871 edition)

    Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians
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    People

    Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

    Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century
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    Politics, Humour & Satire

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

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

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

    W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
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    Politics, Geometry & Diagrams

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

    The Confidence-Man (1857)
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    People, Stories, Humour & Satire

    The Confidence-Man (1857)

    The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)
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    Science & Medicine, Astronomy & Space

    The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

    Walter Crane’s Painting Book (1889)
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    Music & Arts

    Walter Crane’s Painting Book (1889)

    Rainbows in Art
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    Science & Medicine, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Rainbows in Art

    The Human Alphabet
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    Design & Typography

    The Human Alphabet

    Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)
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    Ghosts & Occult

    Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)

    Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)
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    People

    Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)

    The Splash of a Drop (1895)
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    Science & Medicine, Geometry & Diagrams

    The Splash of a Drop (1895)

    Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)
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    Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

    Blue-Sky Thinking: *The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight* (1877)
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    Science & Medicine, Design & Typography

    Blue-Sky Thinking: The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight (1877)

    Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)
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    Communication, Crime & Law

    Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)

    Phenakistoscopes (1833)
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    Technology

    Phenakistoscopes (1833)

    The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
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    Animals & Beasts, Death

    The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

    With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825
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    Travel & Exploration

    With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825