Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java-Album (1854)

Clear Shadows (1867)

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

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

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

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

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)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)

Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)

James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)