This thread is of images depicting the Biblical creation myth to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Drawn by Konrad Schlapperitzin in 1455.

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Images of human anatomy engraved by Arnauld-Eloi Gautier-Dagoty and published in 1773. Plates 1, 3, 4, and 5 are shown below

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A 1460 map of Europe, Africa, and Asia by Nicolaus Germanus based on Ptolemy's work. medievalsky

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Art posters advertising books (1895-1911)

1. An Ambitious Man - Ella Wilcox
2. The Book of the Ocean - Ernest Ingersoll
3. A Boy of the First Empire - Elbridge Brooks
4. Bismarck The Man and the Statesman - Bismarck and A.J. Butler

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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky photographed the Russian Empire using a 3-image color photography system

1. Alim Khan, emir of Bukhara, in 1911
2. Petrozavodsk church in 1915
3. Chapan-Ata Mountain, mosque on top
4. Women in Georgian holiday attire

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Photographs of Halloween in New York taken between 1974 and 1978

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Watercolor drawing of Indian elephants made between 1780-1858

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