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Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)
Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
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“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)
A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
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Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
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“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage
Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social distinction, and sexual transgression, finding…
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Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)
Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.
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Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)
Selections from the long-running British journal on historical peculiarities, from the whereabouts of Mary Queen of Scot’s severed head to the identity of Charles I's hooded executioner.
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Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)
Diagrams from a now-lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
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Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds
Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fallon explores this “lost world” novel…
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The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some dozen countries.
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Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art
Artworks from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.