Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t
Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist ...
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This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion
Across 27 pages, author J.H. Brown laid out how readers could summon spooky images by staring at one of the book’s 16 illustrations of “specters ... witchcraft—is once more prevalent in this 19th ...
Publishers Weekly6d
Robert Lacey Revisits Classic Nursery Rhymes
The enduring power of nursery rhymes is that they bring children into contact with the realities of human emotion. And the ...
Smithsonian Magazine24d
Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art
During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats ... courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political ...
National Catholic Register12d
The Pop-Culture Icon of Joan of Arc Is No Match to the Catholic Saint
While secular art projects around the saint are flourishing in the U.S., it is worth remembering that nothing in her work can ...
'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...
U.S. News & World Report6d
National Museum of American Illustration
And the National Museum of American Illustration has one of the largest ... as the museum is housed in the stately 19th-century Vernon Court mansion. According to several recent visitors, the ...
In 1973 a library book was checked out. 51 years later it’s finally been returned
As Kathy Penny sifted through the returned books of the bin, she noticed a book with a trim that was a little more dusty than ...
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London’s Outernet – a must-see free experience at the heart of London
The Butterfly Trail is located at the Outernet’s Now building on Tottenham Court Road, London, and provides an immersive, ...
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Terra Incognita (2002)
Terra Incognita is a multi-plane cut out animation made from photocopies of 19th century illustrations made during the race to the poles and drawings by Eric Leiser. For the puppet performance it ...
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Woman fighting with a man, accusing him of murder, Victorian, 19th Century style. 1890s from Catissou by Jules Claretie stock illustration...
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