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Hunter Dukes is managing editor of The Public Domain Review and Cabinet.
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
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The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)
Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)
“On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)