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

Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)

Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000

Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript

Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library

The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage

Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)

Selection from Wellcome Library’s release of 100k openly licensed images

The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million

Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)

Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)

Robert Cornelius’ Self-Portrait: The First Ever “Selfie” (1839)

Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)

Wear Celluloid Collars and Cuffs (ca.1870)

Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land

Ernst Haeckel’s Radiolaria (1862)

Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)

A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program

The Belly of a Horse (1820)