Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

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)