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    Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s release of more than 30k images of public domain works
    Images / 
    Music & Arts

    Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s release of more than 30k images of public domain works

    The Library of the Future: A Vision of 1983 from 1883
    Books / 
    The Future

    The Library of the Future: A Vision of 1983 from 1883

    The Tomb and the Telephone Box: Soane’s Mausoleum (1816)
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    Design & Typography, Architecture

    The Tomb and the Telephone Box: Soane’s Mausoleum (1816)

    Paterson’s Roads (1826 edition)
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    Maps, Travel & Exploration

    Paterson’s Roads (1826 edition)

    Schneider Von Groot’s Christmas Dream (1885)
    Books / 
    Drugs

    Schneider Von Groot’s Christmas Dream (1885)

    Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)
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    Ghosts & Occult

    Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)

    Nineteenth-Century Textspeak
    Books / 
    Communication

    Nineteenth-Century Textspeak

    The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (1825)
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    Ghosts & Occult

    The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (1825)

    Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)

    Pepys’s Ghost (1899)
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    Humour & Satire

    Pepys’s Ghost (1899)

    Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

    The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)
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    Travel & Exploration, Death

    The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)

    Bon-Mots of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (1897)
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    Humour & Satire

    Bon-Mots of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (1897)

    Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73)
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    Design & Typography, Architecture, Music & Arts

    Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73)

    Scrapbook of Hand-Coloured Juvenile Woodcut Emblems
    Books / 
    Wisdom

    Scrapbook of Hand-Coloured Juvenile Woodcut Emblems

    Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony
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    Love & Lust

    Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

    1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (1870)
    Books / 
    The Future

    1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (1870)

    British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Ghosts & Occult

    British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)

    Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library
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    Landscapes, Music & Arts

    Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library

    The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)
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    Ghosts & Occult

    The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)

    Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World

    Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

    E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Strange Stories
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Stories, Ghosts & Occult

    E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Strange Stories

    The Philosophy of Beards (1854)
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    Fashion, Customs & Culture

    The Philosophy of Beards (1854)

    First recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1909)
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    Customs & Culture

    First recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1909)