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Arnold Genthe’s Cats : Women Posing With ‘Buzzer’ From A Century Ago

Arnold Genthe’s Cats : Women Posing With ‘Buzzer’ From A Century Ago

It is told that at the age of four, when I was taken by the nurse to look at my newly arrived brother Hugo, I seriously remarked, ‘I’d like a little kitten better. ...
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Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Donald Baxter MacMillan's fabulous photos of the Artic Sun ...
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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

It was Gysin who invented cut-ups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician Ian Sommerville, using techniques Burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments. ...
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Buy Prints Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

"I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that ...
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Richard and Cherry Kearton – Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers, Baby Birds And One Stuffed Ox

Richard and Cherry Kearton – Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers, Baby Birds And One Stuffed Ox

At a time when hunting was fashionable and nature conservation was in its infancy, the brothers recognised the need to respect wildlife and to capture it through photography rather than by hunting down trophies ...
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The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

Belgian scientist Léon Becker and French artist Fortuné Méaulle enlist insects to teach us our A to Z ...
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Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard was a publisher and spy for the British crown who never left the Netherlands and drew surreal Indian Ocean fish ...
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The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographed by Arnold Genthe, George R. Lawrence, and others, the photos reveal the vast extent of the devastation and the scale of the military relief effort. They also sometimes show the breakdown of civil order, as in photographs of soldiers looting during the fires. ...
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Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. ...
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Revisiting the French Werewolf Epidemic and the Beast of Gévaudan

Revisiting the French Werewolf Epidemic and the Beast of Gévaudan

The period between roughly 1520 and 1630 saw “France’s version of Europe’s witch trials and executions, but with werewolves ...
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An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

A scarce police equipment catalogue featuring numerous illustrations of weaponry and equipment, and doubling as a policeman’s ‘how-to’ guide. ...
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Poetic Treasury of Life

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Poetic Treasury of Life

“Did you ever know that a flower, once withered and freshened again, becomes an immortal flower, – that is, that it rises again?” – Emily Dickinson ...
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