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    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)

    Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)
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    Death, Fashion

    Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

    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)

    *Specimens of Fancy Turning* (1869)
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    Design & Typography

    Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

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

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

    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
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    Customs & Culture, People, Politics

    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)

    Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Natural World, Novelty

    Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)

    The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
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    The Arts, Emotion and Expression

    The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)

    The Turns of the *Turnverein*: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)
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    Sport, Politics

    The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
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    Customs & Culture, Novelty, Politics, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

    Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)
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    Science & Medicine, Strange Phenomena, Technology, Space

    Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)

    Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
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    Science & Medicine, Sport, Victorian, Technology

    Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
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    Customs & Culture, Sport

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

    Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)
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    Customs & Culture, Landscapes, Love, People

    Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)

    Adolf Schmidt’s *Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde* (1890)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890)

    Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897)
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    Natural World, Design & Typography

    Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897)

    Samuel G. Szabó’s Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857)
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    Crime

    Samuel G. Szabó’s Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857)

    Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era
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    Customs & Culture

    Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era

    Of Chickens, Eggs, and Cannonballs: Roger Fenton’s Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)
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    War

    Of Chickens, Eggs, and Cannonballs: Roger Fenton’s Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

    Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations
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    Customs & Culture

    Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations

    Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)
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    Design & Typography

    Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)

    John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America
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    Design & Typography

    John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America

    Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
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    Natural World

    Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)

    August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1893–4)
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    Space

    August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1893–4)

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