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

Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)

Robert Cornelius’ Self-Portrait: The First Ever “Selfie” (1839)

Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)

The Sketchbooks of Jacques-Louis David

Photographs of Auto Polo (ca. 1912)

The Coronation of King Ladislaus of Poland (1633)

Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)

A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program

The First Tour de France (1903)

The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)

Conversations with Lord Byron (1824)

17th century Ethiopian Manuscript: The Miracles of the Archangel Michael

Lantern Slides of Norway (ca. 1910)

Bifurcated Girls: Vanity Fair Special Issue (1903)

Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)

The World Turned Upside Down (18th century)

Phrenology Diagrams from Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)

Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)

Medical Imagery of the 15th Century

Double Exposures

Illustrations from The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)

Decayed Daguerreotypes

Diary Days from Christmas Past