Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

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

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)

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

A Journey Round my Room (1871 edition)

Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

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

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)

The Confidence-Man (1857)

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

Walter Crane’s Painting Book (1889)

Rainbows in Art

The Human Alphabet

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

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

The Splash of a Drop (1895)

Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

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

Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825