Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

Coney Island at Night (1905)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)

“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

It Started with Muybridge (1964)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)

Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym

Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)

On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)

The Future Imagined in Albert Robida’s La vie électrique (1890)

Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)

Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)

Octave Uzanne’s “The End of Books” (1894)

Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)

Cryptography: or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)

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

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)