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    Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
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    Design & Typography

    Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

    Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography, Fashion

    Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)

    Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s *391* Review (1917–1924)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)

    Christoph Jamnitzer’s *Neuw Grotteßken Buch* (1610)
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    Design & Typography

    Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

    Anton Seder’s *The Animal in Decorative Art* (1896)
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    Animals & Beasts, Design & Typography

    Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

    Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
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    Drugs, Design & Typography, Food

    Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

    “Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
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    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    “Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

    *The Little Journal of Rejects* (1896)
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    Design & Typography, Humour & Satire, Music & Arts

    The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)

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

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

    Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ *Passio Verbigenae* (ca. 1580)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints
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    Design & Typography

    Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

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

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

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)
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    Design & Typography

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

    *Specimens of Fancy Turning* (1869)
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    Design & Typography

    Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

    *Punctuation Personified* (1824)
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    Design & Typography, Communication

    Punctuation Personified (1824)

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

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

    Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883)
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    Design & Typography

    Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883)

    *Shadows from the Walls of Death* (1874)
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    Design & Typography, Science & Medicine, Death

    Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)