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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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With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

In 1955, Emma Gatewood of Ohio, the first woman to complete the hike, did so on her second try. She was 67 years old, a mother of 11, and a grandmother of many more. ...
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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...
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Capturing the Present in the Lush Polaroids of Celebrated Cinematographer Robby Müller

Capturing the Present in the Lush Polaroids of Celebrated Cinematographer Robby Müller

  Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller (1940-2018) was a "master of light". Whilst working with Wim ...
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Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Chun discovered a species so terrifying, he called it Vampyrotheuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell,” just one of the many creatures he found, then dissected, labeled, and named. ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Seeing wonder in the small - looking at the 'German Darwin's' world of wonder ...
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Satirical Illustrations From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race – 1851

Satirical Illustrations From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race – 1851

A lively collection of lithographs lampooning men and women of the gilded age ...
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Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

  For the DOCUMERICA Project (1971-1977), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired around ...
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