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Hunter Dukes is managing editor of The Public Domain Review and Cabinet.
The Art of Swimming (1587)
Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)
Photographs of Auto Polo (ca. 1912)
Frederick Whitney’s Blackboard Sketching (1909)
The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)
Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions (1897)
On the Writing of the Insane (1870)
Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature (1863)
Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867)
The Proper Art of Writing (1655)
I Dub Thee “Fly-Fornication”: Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880)
J. J. Grandville’s Illustrations from The Flowers Personified (1847)
Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī’s Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)
Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000
Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)
Dances in Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation (1701)
Harry Clarke’s Illustrations for Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1919)
Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920
The Diary of a Nobody (1919 edition)
“Knowledge Is Infinite”: Manuscript of Piri Reis’ Book of Seafaring (ca. 17th Century)
Frankenstein (1910)