Cyanotypes of British Algae by Anna Atkins (1843)

Portraits of Imprisoned Modoc Warriors (1873)

Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History

The Telephonoscope (1879)

Harry Kellar’s Show Posters

Gynecological Gymnastics from Outer Space (1895)

Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants

19th-Century Album of Ottoman Fashion

Chart of the Inner Landscape (1886)

Japanese Depictions of North Americans (1860s)

Reenactment of First Operation under Ether (ca. 1850)

Transference of Thoughts (1885)

The Butter Sculptures of Caroline S. Brooks

The Art of Dreams

Illustrations from a Teenage Holiday Journal (1821)

Photograph Collection of a 19th-Century Sexologist

In Search of the Impossible: The Perfect English Rabbit

53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes (1848)

Photographs of a Falling Cat (1894)

Speech of Satan to his Legions from A System of Elocution (1846)

Beards of Time

“Plantscapes” from Kerner von Marilaun’s Pflanzenleben (1887)

Flowers of the Sky

Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images