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    A Hall of Mirrors: *Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, In Alchymia* (1615) Anthropomorphic Maps of Europe at War (1870/1914)
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    Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Livres
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    Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for *Nos Invisibles* (1907)Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)
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    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)
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    Bryn Mawr College Library
    Bryn Mawr College LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
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    Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)James Sowerby’s *British Mineralogy* (1802–17)
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    George Méliès Collection
    George Méliès CollectionOn the Web / On PDR

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    Baron Munchausen’s Dream (1911)Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)The Man With The Rubber Head (1902)The Monster (1903)
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    Library of the University of Seville
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    Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
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    Minneapolis Institute of Art
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    An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s *The Sudarium of Saint Veronica* (1649)
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    Hi-Res Images from the Apollo MissionsApollo 11 Onboard Recordings (1969)Space Colony Art from the 1970s
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    National Digital Library of Poland
    National Digital Library of PolandOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Coronation of King Ladislaus of Poland (1633)A Catalogue of Polish Bishops
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    Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
    Netherlands Institute for Sound and VisionOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Somersault Man (1923)Dutch Fashion Reel (1969)
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    ORKA - Open Repository Kassel
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    The Comet Book (1587)Flowers of the Sky
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    Penn Libraries
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    Erbario: a 15th-century Herbal from Northern Italy
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    Prelinger Archives
    Prelinger ArchivesOn the Web / On PDR

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    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake*Shy Guy* (1947)The Human Voice (1921)The Private Life of a Cat (ca. 1945)
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    Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
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    Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)
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    Royal College of Surgeons of England
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    Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating ScotomataCharles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)
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    The Royal Society
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    Speculations of the Changes, Likely to be Discovered in the Earth and Moon, by Their Respective Inhabitants (ca. 1666)Account of an Extraordinary Fireball Bursting at Sea (1749)Experiments and Observations in a Heated Room (1774)The Man Who Recovered the Use of His Tongue, after Four Years Dumb, by means of a Frightful Dream (1747)
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    Science History Institute
    Science History InstituteOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)
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    SLUB
    SLUBOn the Web / On PDR

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    A Book of Stone: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776)“I Reunite Architecture and Perspective”: Hirschvogel’s *Geometria* (1543)Angles of Reconnaissance: *Novum Instrumentum Geometricum* (1607)
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    Stanford University Libraries
    Stanford University LibrariesOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Celestial Atlas of Andreas Cellarius (1660)Maps Showing California as an Island
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    Technische Universität Braunschweig
    Technische Universität BraunschweigOn the Web / On PDR

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    Tom Seidmann-Freud’s *Book of Hare Stories* (1924)
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    Tekniska Museet
    Tekniska MuseetOn the Web / On PDR

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    Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
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    Universal City Studios
    Universal City StudiosOn the Web / On PDR

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    First Year Anniversary of the Berlin Wall (1962)Live footage of King Alexander’s Assassination (1934)The Hindenburg Explodes (1937)WW2 U.S. Soldier Drag Show (1942)
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    University of Houston Digital Library
    University of Houston Digital LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    Universitätsbibliothek HeidelbergOn the Web / On PDR

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    Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922)The Telephonoscope (1879)
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    US National Library of Medicine
    US National Library of MedicineOn the Web / On PDR

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    *Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth* (1833)Law and Ordure: *Scatalogic Rites of All Nations* (1891)*A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee* (1792)*Shadows from the Walls of Death* (1874)
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    Wellcome Collection
    Wellcome CollectionOn the Web / On PDR

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    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)Luigi Cornaro’s *Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life* (1722 edition)Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s *Occult Chemistry* (1908)*Pantographia*: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
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    Zentralbibliothek Zürich
    Zentralbibliothek ZürichOn the Web / On PDR

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    Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century GermanyCelestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561
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    American Museum of Natural History Library
    American Museum of Natural History LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon *Prachtwerk* (1906)
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    Amherst College
    Amherst CollegeOn the Web / On PDR

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    Orra White Hitchcock’s Scientific Illustrations for the Classroom (1828–40)
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    Art Institute Chicago
    Art Institute ChicagoOn the Web / On PDR

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    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)Of Chickens, Eggs, and Cannonballs: Roger Fenton’s Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)
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    Botanicus
    BotanicusOn the Web / On PDR

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    First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)Plates from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807)Nehemiah Grew’s *Anatomy of Plants* (1680)
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art
    The Cleveland Museum of ArtOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Human Pyramids of Juste De Juste (ca. 1540)Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s release of more than 30k images of public domain works
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    Davison Art Center
    Davison Art CenterOn the Web / On PDR

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    Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints
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    Department of Energy Digital Archive
    Department of Energy Digital ArchiveOn the Web / On PDR

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    Operation Doorstep (1953)
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    Ernst Mayer Library
    Ernst Mayer LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-VillezImages from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
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    Fedflix
    FedflixOn the Web / On PDR

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    *It Started with Muybridge* (1964)
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    Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
    Geographicus Rare Antique MapsOn the Web / On PDR

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    Maps from Geographicus
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    Lloyd Library and Museum
    Lloyd Library and MuseumOn the Web / On PDR

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    Lithographs from M. E. Descourtilz’s *Atlas des Champignons* (1827)
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    Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Los Angeles County Museum of ArtOn the Web / On PDR

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    Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s *À Edgar Poe* (1882)Greek Masquerade (1771)Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript
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    The Metropolitan Museum
    The Metropolitan MuseumOn the Web / On PDR

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    Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints*Clear Shadows* (1867)Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
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    Missouri Botanical Garden
    Missouri Botanical GardenOn the Web / On PDR

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    William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)Plates from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807)Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693)
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    MKG Collection Online
    MKG Collection OnlineOn the Web / On PDR

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    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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    Musea Brugge
    Musea BruggeOn the Web / On PDR

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    James Ensor, *The Deadly Sins* (ca. 1904)
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    National Diet Library of Japan
    National Diet Library of JapanOn the Web / On PDR

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    Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
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    National Gallery of Denmark
    National Gallery of DenmarkOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)
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    New York Public Library
    New York Public LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork PrintsThe Afterimage of Death: *Dr. Berkeley's Discovery* (1889)A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
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    Princeton University Library
    Princeton University LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Knowledge by the Pound: *The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread* (1768)Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)
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    RawPixel
    RawPixelOn the Web / On PDR

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    Urania’s Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens (circa 1825)Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73)
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    Rijksmuseum
    RijksmuseumOn the Web / On PDR

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    Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)Christoph Jamnitzer’s *Neuw Grotteßken Buch* (1610)Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ *Lapponia* (1682)Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
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    The Segundo de Chomón Collection
    The Segundo de Chomón CollectionOn PDR

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    The Frog (1908)The Magic Roses (1906)
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    Toronto Public Library
    Toronto Public LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920
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    U.S. National Archives
    U.S. National ArchivesOn the Web / On PDR

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    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
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    UCLA Digital Library
    UCLA Digital LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Bob’s Electrical Theatre (1906)Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)
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    UK National Archives
    UK National ArchivesOn the Web / On PDR

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    Coughs, Sneezes, and Jet-Propelled Germs: Two Public Service Films by Richard Massingham (1945)The Map That Changed the Middle East (1916)Coughs and Sneezes (1945)
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    United States Naval Observatory
    United States Naval ObservatoryOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Hyginus Star Atlas (1482)The Celestial Atlas of Flamsteed (1795)Transit of Venus (1882)
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    University of Tübingen
    University of TübingenOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)
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    US National Gallery of Art
    US National Gallery of ArtOn the Web / On PDR

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    Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork PrintsManhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936) John Singleton Copley’s *Watson and the Shark* (1778)Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s *Bizzarie di Varie Figure* (1624)
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    The Walters Art Museum
    The Walters Art MuseumOn the Web / On PDR

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    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)Cosmography Manuscript (12th Century)Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)
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    Yale Center for British Art
    Yale Center for British ArtOn the Web / On PDR

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    William Blake’s *The Gates of Paradise* (1787-93)Shakespeare in ArtA Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585)
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    Yale University Art Gallery
    Yale University Art GalleryOn PDR

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    Filippo Morghen’s Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)
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    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    *The Little Journal of Rejects* (1896)Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)Visualizing History: The Polish SystemThe American Woods
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    Brown University Library
    Brown University LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911Albert Millican’s *Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter* (1891)
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    California Digital Library
    California Digital LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s *Thirty Years a Detective* (1884)Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s *Weird Islands* (1921)*Books Fatal to Their Authors* (1895)Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s *Christmas Garland* (1912)
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    Columbia University Libraries
    Columbia University LibrariesOn the Web / On PDR

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    700 Years of Dante’s *Divine Comedy* in ArtVisualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating ScotomataSpecimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)
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    Digital Maryland
    Digital MarylandOn the Web / On PDR

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    Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920
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    George A. Smathers Libraries
    George A. Smathers LibrariesOn the Web / On PDR

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    Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)
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    The Getty
    The GettyOn the Web / On PDR

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    *Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs* (1869)Anton Seder’s *The Animal in Decorative Art* (1896)Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (1883)Phantom Bouquets: Two Books on the Art of Skeleton Leaves (1864)
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    Harry Ransom Center
    Harry Ransom CenterOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)
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    Harvard University
    Harvard UniversityOn the Web / On PDR

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    Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s *Briefe and True Report* (1590)Charles H. Bennett’s *Shadows* (ca. 1856)C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s *Nature* (ca. 1837–39)*The Procession of the Months* (ca. 1889)
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    The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
    The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan LibrariesOn the Web / On PDR

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    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? (1863)
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    Library of Congress
    Library of CongressOn the Web / On PDR

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    “Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s *Impending Revolution* (1872)A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
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    MBLWHOI Library
    MBLWHOI LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s *Medusae of the World* (1910)The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909�–11)Flatfish Camouflage Experiments (1911)
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    National Library of the Netherlands
    National Library of the NetherlandsOn the Web / On PDR

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    Der Naturen Bloeme: The Flower of Nature (ca. 1350)Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)
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    Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
    Österreichische NationalbibliothekOn the Web / On PDR

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    Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Philadelphia Museum of ArtOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)*Specimens of Fancy Turning* (1869)Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)
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    Princeton Theological Seminary Library
    Princeton Theological Seminary LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    *Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship* (1890)Through the Eye to the Heart: *Bible Symbols* (1908 edition)The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue Between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive (1900 edition)The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into Englishe Metre (1584)
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    Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
    Smithsonian Libraries and ArchivesOn the Web / On PDR

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    Edwin D. Babbitt’s *Principles of Light and Color* (1878)*Antiquities of Mexico* (1831–48)A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s *Book of Monsters* (1914)“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
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    U.S. Geological Survey Library
    U.S. Geological Survey LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Illustrations from The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)
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    University of Connecticut Libraries
    University of Connecticut LibrariesOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884)A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)Illustrated initials from a German fairytale book (1919 edition)
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    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Library of the Future: A Vision of 1983 from 1883A Journey Round my Room (1871 edition)The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)
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    University of Rochester
    University of RochesterOn the Web / On PDR

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    First Edition Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” (1852)
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    University of Wisconsin–Madison
    University of Wisconsin–MadisonOn the Web / On PDR

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    Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)
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    US Army Corps of Engineers
    US Army Corps of EngineersOn the Web / On PDR

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    Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
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    US National Agricultural Library
    US National Agricultural LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes (1848)
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    Villanova Digital Library
    Villanova Digital LibraryOn the Web / On PDR

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    Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)
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    Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
    Bibliothèque municipale de LyonOn the Web / On PDR

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    The Games and Pleasures of Childhood (1657)
    Digital RightsMarked “public domain” with attribution request
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    Brooklyn Museum
    Brooklyn MuseumOn the Web / On PDR

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