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    Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s *Weird Islands* (1921)
    Books / 
    Stories, Travel & Exploration

    Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)

    Edith Wharton’s *Italian Villas and their Gardens* (1904)
    Books / 
    Landscapes, Design & Typography

    Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography, Natural World, Music & Arts, War

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

    Tom Seidmann-Freud’s *Book of Hare Stories* (1924)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Stories, Wisdom

    Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

    The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)

    I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: *Animated Putty* (1911)
    Film

    I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)

    Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s *Millions of Cats* (1928)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts

    Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)

    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
    Images / 
    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911

    As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in *Steamboat Willie* (1928)
    Film / 
    Animals & Beasts, Humour & Satire

    As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)

    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)

    The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography

    The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s *Christmas Garland* (1912)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

    Coney Island at Night (1905)
    Film / 
    Architecture, Technology

    Coney Island at Night (1905)

    Modernity in the Rainforest: *Man and his Desire* (1917)
    Books / 
    Music & Arts, Natural World, Travel & Exploration

    Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
    Images / 
    War, Geometry & Diagrams

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

    A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

    Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)
    Images / 
    Architecture, Landscapes

    Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
    Images / 
    Politics, War, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)
    Books / 
    Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

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

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

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
    Books / 
    Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
    Film / 
    Emotion & Expression, Music & Arts

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
    Books / 
    Stories, Death

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake