The Wise Boys: or, The Entertaining Histories of Fred Forethought, Matt Merrythought, Luke Lovebook and Ben Bee (ca. 1842)

Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

The Confidence-Man (1857)

The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas

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

Hypnotism Posters (ca. 1900)

Sketches in Bedlam (1823)

The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)

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

Portraits of Imprisoned Modoc Warriors (1873)

Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants

At the Moving Picture Ball (1920)

Queen Victoria’s Teenage Diaries (1912)

Japanese Depictions of North Americans (1860s)

The Art of Dreams

Illustrations from a Teenage Holiday Journal (1821)

America, a Personification (ca. 1590)

Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces (1906)

A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585)

Beards of Time

The New York World’s Fair, 1939-40

Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance (1922)

Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)

Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)