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The Old, Old, Old Man

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780

Charles Butler's the Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 Edition)

As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte

"The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person"

Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind's Katzensymphonie (1868)

Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s)

A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia, Ostrich in Ancient, Modern Times (1926)

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

José Guadalupe Posada's Engravings of Unusual Births (Ca. 1880–1910)

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888)

Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder's Twelve Proverbs (1558)

Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (Ca. 425–1100)

The Human Alphabet

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

The color and color-patterns of moths and butterflies (1897)

Designing the Sublime Boullée and Ledoux's Architectural Revolution

Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919)

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