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

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: *A Book of Sundial Mottoes* (1903)
    Books / 
    Death, Design & Typography, Wisdom

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

    *Shy Guy* (1947)
    Film / 
    Customs & Culture, Wisdom

    Shy Guy (1947)

    Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)
    Images / 
    Architecture, Landscapes

    Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)

    *Atlas of the Munsell Color System* (1915)
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    Science & Medicine

    Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915)

    Downhill from Here: *The Slant Book* (1910)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire

    Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)

    Many-Colored Misdirection: *Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom* (1909)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
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    Customs & Culture, People, Politics

    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)

    James Ensor, *The Deadly Sins* (ca. 1904)
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    Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)

    Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Natural World

    Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)

    The Book of Bread (1903)
    Books / 
    Food

    The Book of Bread (1903)

    *Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales* (1922)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1922)

    A Bestiary of Loss
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    Animals & Beasts, Death, Natural World

    A Bestiary of Loss

    The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
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    Music & Arts, Emotion & Expression

    The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)

    Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s *Medusae of the World* (1910)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Natural World

    Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910)

    Playing Indian: *Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island* (1903)
    Audio / 
    Customs & Culture, People

    Playing Indian: Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island (1903)

    Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s *Preliminary List* (1900)
    Books / 
    People, Music & Arts

    Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s Preliminary List (1900)

    “Mother Will Be Pleased”: *How It Feels to Be Run Over* (1900)
    Film / 
    Death, Technology

    “Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

    The Turns of the *Turnverein*: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)
    Images / 
    Sport & Exercise, Politics

    The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)

    The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)
    Books / 
    Natural World, Science & Medicine

    The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)

    Howard Pyle's *The Mermaid* (1910)
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Howard Pyle's The Mermaid (1910)

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
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    Customs & Culture, Politics, Science & Medicine

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

    *It Started with Muybridge* (1964)
    Film / 
    Technology, War

    It Started with Muybridge (1964)