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William Henry Jackson  The Tower of Babel ca. 1880 Albumen silver print 54.0 x 42.5 cm. 1981.2248.0017

Distichopora gracilis. Hydrocorals of the North Pacific Ocean. 1938.

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~ Figure Emerging from a Waterlily. Culture: Maya Medium: Ceramic, pigment Place Found: Campeche, Mexico Date: 600-900 Period: Late Classic Period

Anatomy of the sense of smell. Bilderbuch für Kinder. 1802. 

Ernst Haeckel - A monograph of the British fossil corals - 1850 - via Internet Archive

Henry Vuibert, Les anaglyphes géométriques, Vuibert, Paris, ca. 1912 (on the way of @artspotting, via The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection)

Frank R. Paul. Science Fiction. 1939.

Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio had text by Howard Jones and illustrations by N. E. Jones, Genevieve Jones, and Eliza Jane Shulze. It was self published in Circleville, Ohio by subscription  from July 1879 to December 1886.

See more illustrations in the Museum exhibition Opulent Oceans.

William Cheselden, engraving showing the diseased part of a human skull, from “Osteographia, or the anatomy of the bones” (1733) 

Lily Elsie in The Merry Widow - beginning as a child star in the 1890s, Elsie built her reputation in several successful Edwardian musical comedies before her great success in The Merry Widow, opening in 1907. Afterwards, she starred in several more successful operettas and musicals. Admired for her beauty and charm on stage, Elsie became one of the most photographed women of Edwardian times.

1967 Vol. 5, No. 10

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