The Spinning Sow (1673)

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)

Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection

The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

Chirologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand (1644)

Rainbows in Art

The Human Alphabet

Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904)

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

Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)

Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

The Rowing-Bath (1916)

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)