Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

Clear Shadows (1867)

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

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

The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

The Works of Mars (1671)

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)