Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java-Album (1854)

Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)

Clear Shadows (1867)

The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery (1889)

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

Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895)

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

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

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

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

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

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

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

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

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

Indian Sign Talk (1893)

Punctuation Personified (1824)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

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