The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

The Human Alphabet

Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)

Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)

The Music of Light: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Colour Analysis Charts (1902)

16th-Century Ornament Prints

An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)

Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library

The Tibetan Book of Proportions

Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)

Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867)

Illustrated initials from a German fairytale book (1919 edition)

Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements (1885)

Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)

Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920