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    Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)
    Images / 
    Travel & Exploration, Customs & Culture

    Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

    *Books Fatal to Their Authors* (1895)
    Books / 
    Death, Customs & Culture

    Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895)

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster
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    Customs & Culture

    Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

    Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)
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    Death, Fashion

    Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

    Charles H. Bennett’s *Shadows* (ca. 1856)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

    *A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words* (1860)
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    Customs & Culture, Communication

    A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

    *A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns* (1837)
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    Natural World, Music & Arts

    A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

    George Washington Williams’ *History of the Negro Race in America* (1882–83)
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    Customs & Culture, War

    George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)
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    Design & Typography

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

    Hokusai’s *Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China* (1836)
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    War, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

    The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
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    Customs & Culture

    The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

    *Specimens of Fancy Turning* (1869)
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    Design & Typography

    Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

    *The Comic Natural History of the Human Race* (1851)
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    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

    Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of *Utsuro-bune*
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    Colonialism & the 'Other', Technology, Strange Phenomena

    Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
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    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    *Indian Sign Talk* (1893)
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    Customs & Culture, Communication

    Indian Sign Talk (1893)

    *Punctuation Personified* (1824)
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    Design & Typography, Communication

    Punctuation Personified (1824)

    Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

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

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

    *Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth* (1833)
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    Science & Medicine

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

    Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)
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    Customs & Culture

    Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

    *Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship* (1890)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

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

    “March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)
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    Humour & Satire, Politics, Technology

    “March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)