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Frontispiece to Fridtjof Nansen's *In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times*, 1911.
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‘Group at Ballard Park on August 14, 1898’ by Theresa Babb (1898)
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Group at Ballard Park on August 14, 1898: Mary Knight, Fannie Fuller, Marian Goodwin, Alice Merriam, & Grace Parker
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A victim of the Air Loom’s influencing rays, perhaps Matthews himself: a detail from James Tilly Matthews’ illustration of the Air Loom featured in John Haslam’s <em>Illustrations of Madness</em> (1810).
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‘Amduscias’ by Louis le Breton from Dictionnaire infernal (1863)
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Amduscias, from the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy's <em>Dictionnaire infernal</em>.
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A SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO GHETTO MOTHER AND CHILD WHO LIVE IN NEARBY LOW INCOME HOUSING. THEY ARE PART OF THE 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE OF THEIR RACE WHO MAKE UP OVER ONE THIRD OF CHICAGO’S POPULATION CHICAGO AREA CENSUS FIGURES SHOW A SIGNIFICANT GAP IN ECONOMIC SECURITY BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES. OF...
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‘Plate 90, Cystoidea’ by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
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Plate from Ernst Haeckel's visually dazzling <em>Kunstformen der Natur</em>, the Art Forms of Nature, published in 1904. With the assistance of Jena artist-lithographer Adolf Giltsch, Haeckel produced one hundred plates depicting the forms of animal life, mainly marine animals. With this book...
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‘Goethe Colour Chart’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1810)
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Colour chart from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's groundbreaking <em>Theory of Colours</em> (Zur Farbenlehre) in which he espouses his views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. Translated into English in 1840 the book became incredibly influential amongst artists,...
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