George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)

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

“Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

Indian Sign Talk (1893)

Shy Guy (1947)

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)

Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)

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

Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher

Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)

The Procession of the Months (ca. 1889)

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

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

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749)

On Sprezzatura: Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1903 edition)

Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era

Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)