Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874)

Landscapes of the Western Front, 1914–1918

Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)

Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

Flatfish Camouflage Experiments (1911)

Swedish House-Gymnastics (1913)

Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)

Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

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

The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas

Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)

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

The Rowing-Bath (1916)

Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)

Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)

The Legs of the Opera (ca. 1862)

Shakespeare in Art

Images from The Champion Text Book on Embalming (1897)

Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865)

Lewis Hine’s Composite Photographs of Child Labourers (1913)