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    Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
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    Love & Lust, Music & Arts

    Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

    Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

    Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
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    Animals & Beasts, Music & Arts, Natural World

    Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Sport & Exercise

    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

    “How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
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    Customs & Culture

    “How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

    The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
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    Natural World, Politics

    The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s *Book of Monsters* (1914)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)

    Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for *Nos Invisibles* (1907)
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    Death, Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)

    Looking Backward: Images of *Rückenfiguren* (ca. 1497–1925)
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    Landscapes, Music & Arts

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

    Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Drugs, Natural World, Religion, Myth & Legend

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

    Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)
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    Architecture, Customs & Culture, Landscapes, People

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

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
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    Design & Typography, Natural World, Music & Arts, War

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

    The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
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    Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)

    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
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    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911

    Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)
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    Travel & Exploration, Customs & Culture

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

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

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

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

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

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
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    War, Geometry & Diagrams

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

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

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

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
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    Politics, War, Religion, Myth & Legend

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

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

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

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
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    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)