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“She beckoned to Veikko” (1922) by Jay Van Everen, from Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive

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#scandinavia #animals #nature #myth #finland #patterns #trees

November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Illustration by Samuel G. Szabó, from Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857).

Source: @metmuseum.org

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#portraiture #character #portraits #mugshots #criminals #identification #faces #crime #art #publicdomain

Samuel G. Szabó’s Rogues, A Study of Characters

November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Facsimile of the Codex Mendoza, ca. 1541–1650 (1831–48) by Agostino Aglio, from Antiquities of Mexico.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b77a3c0a-c2fc-46e0-b2d6-51e90a8777cd

#rowboats #mayans

November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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Everything as a Precaution (17th century) by Nicolas Guerard.

Source: US National Library of Medicine

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/52dfec39-ddcc-44e0-b334-0a7c7fcec23d

#animals #transfusion #portraiture #books #blood #glass #versailles #descartes #lambs #art

November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–60.

Source: Harry Ransom Center

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c3a9fe73-1af2-45bf-83e8-0430fc5eeedc

#collage #religion #nature #blood #christianity #wildlife #art #publicdomain

John Bingley Garland collage from Evelyn Waugh's Blood Book

November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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Illustration by Adolf Schmidt, from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/daf9dc4f-93c1-4256-a1db-6f8c67b1ecfd

#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain

Illustration of diatom from Schmidt's *Atlas*

November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Formosan Funeral (1704) by George Psalmanazar, from An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa
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Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/33c41672-853b-4081-941c-59278edf8be1

#poles #charlatans #formosa #tricksters #decorative #hoaxes

November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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Illustration by Philipp Hainhofer, from Große Stammbuch (1596–1633).

Source: Herzog August Bibliothek

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/03ed0692-a716-4698-b584-8011d5f041a7

#water #societies #fish #nobility #buildings #floral #signatures #friendship #art #publicdomain

November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Priests as Snake Charmers (1850) by John Leech, from The Comic History of Rome
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Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/34cb2738-0080-4f2e-abbd-773400512459

#caricatures #victorian #romans #cartoons #booth #advertising #art #publicdomain

November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Group of Young Women (Late 19th century) by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2b82f0d8-3868-40f2-8851-66bf7625c793

#asia #hairstyle #japan #art #publicdomain

November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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A colony's windows (1970s) by Rick Guidice.

Source: NASA

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1b97e8be-baec-4bea-bc53-2f823ea20dbc

#technology #utopias #architecture #art #publicdomain

November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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A Section, and Segments of a Creation of a double Construction (1750) by Thomas Wright, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2e460df3-a735-46f6-a9b3-f3f91efd6d0b

#diagrams #space #astronomy

illustration from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe

November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Sacrifice to a Sovereign (1780) by Maria Catharina Prestel, Abraham Bloemaert.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f77421ae-4ace-483a-827b-27e3911d1c0b

#printing #aquatint #drawing #architecture #art #publicdomain

November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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From Die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition (1917).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage LibraryInternet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c73b6ba8-4c54-4564-bd29-ef1ca21a9d9a

#collage #marine #biology #sea #oceans #starfish #echinoderms #art #publicdomain

November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Bug (1764–8) by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller, from Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68ac074-5f64-46eb-80e9-5e375494e5ab

#micrography #insects #microscopes #entomology #biology