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    Through the Magnifying Glass: *The Cheese Mites* (1903)
    Film / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)

    Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
    Books / 
    Natural World, Cities

    Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)

    The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
    Images / 
    Emotion & Expression, Fashion, Love & Lust

    The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

    The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s *Kreuzigung* (1920)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

    Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s *A Book of Marionettes* (1920)
    Books / 
    Music & Arts

    Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)

    Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s *Peruvian Art in the School* (1926)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)

    Bernard Sleigh’s *Anciente Mappe of Fairyland* (ca. 1920 edition)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Maps, Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts, Travel & Exploration, Wisdom, Education

    Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

    Nikolai Agnivtsev’s *Little Screw* (1925)
    Books / 
    Politics

    Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)

    Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
    Images / 
    Love & Lust, Music & Arts

    Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

    Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

    Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: *The Cameraman’s Revenge* (1912)
    Film / 
    Animals & Beasts, Love & Lust, Technology

    Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

    Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
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    Animals & Beasts, Music & Arts, Natural World

    Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

    *Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times* (1926)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Sport & Exercise

    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

    Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s *Nanook of the North* (1922)
    Film / 
    Customs & Culture, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the ‘Other’

    Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

    Happy Together: *The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales* (1921)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)

    Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s *391* Review (1917–1924)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)

    “How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture

    “How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)

    Karel Čapek’s *Letters from England* (1925)
    Books / 
    Travel & Exploration

    Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)
    Images / 
    Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

    Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s *Les Malheurs des immortels* (1922)
    Books / 
    Music & Arts

    Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)

    The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
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    Natural World, Politics

    The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

    *The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity* (1901 edition)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Love & Lust

    The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

    Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ *Lonesome* (1928)
    Film / 
    Love & Lust

    Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)