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    The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop
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    Design & Typography, Death

    The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

    The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)
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    Animals & Beasts, Design & Typography, Natural World, Food

    The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

    Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend, Astronomy & Space

    Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

    A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions
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    A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

    W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
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    Politics, Geometry & Diagrams

    W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

    The Human Alphabet
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    Design & Typography

    The Human Alphabet

    Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)
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    Design & Typography, Geometry & Diagrams

    Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)

    Phenakistoscopes (1833)
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    Technology

    Phenakistoscopes (1833)

    Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)
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    Geometry & Diagrams

    Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)

    Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)
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    Design & Typography, Natural World

    Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)

    The Music of Light: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Colour Analysis Charts (1902)
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    Science & Medicine, Music & Arts

    The Music of Light: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Colour Analysis Charts (1902)

    16th-Century Ornament Prints
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    Design & Typography, Architecture

    16th-Century Ornament Prints

    An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)
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    Design & Typography

    An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)

    Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library
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    Maps

    Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library

    The Tibetan Book of Proportions
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend, Geometry & Diagrams

    The Tibetan Book of Proportions

    Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)
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    Design & Typography

    Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)

    Owen Jones’ *Examples of Chinese Ornament* (1867)
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    Design & Typography

    Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867)

    Illustrated initials from a German fairytale book (1919 edition)
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    Design & Typography

    Illustrated initials from a German fairytale book (1919 edition)

    Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements (1885)
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    Science & Medicine, Design & Typography, Death, Humour & Satire

    Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements (1885)

    Images from Japanese Design Magazine *Shin-Bijutsukai* (1902)
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    Design & Typography

    Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)

    Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920
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    Ghosts & Occult

    Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920