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The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)
4 days ago
Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)
5 days ago
Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)
12 days ago
A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.
Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)
12 days ago
A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype
12 days ago
Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand...
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
25 days ago
The working class undergirds everything in this cartoon of capitalist society.
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)
about 1 month ago
Lantern slide of man battling bug.
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
about 1 month ago
What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn...
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)
about 1 month ago
An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to...
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
about 2 months ago
A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde...
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project
about 2 months ago
The creator of WNYC's Public Song Project on creativity, copyright, and the...