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“Black children play outside the Ida B. Wells homes, one of Chicago’s oldest housing...” (1973–4) by John H. White, from Documerica.

Source: @usnatarchives.bsky.social

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#chicago #documerica #children #documentary #play #art

Photograph by John H. White for Documerica

December 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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The Baths of Apollo at Versailles (1870).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8e283ccd-ed17-40a3-94ac-a7100b4767f7

#grottoes #fountains #gardens #grotesques #nature #artifice #caves #stereoscopes #foliage #design #sculpture #art #publicdomain

December 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Part of the Funeral Procession (1821) by Mary Browne, from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/43e32067-0f8a-415a-81fb-bd9d7d6bb8da

#diaries #france #french #mourning #processions #rituals #art

December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Medusae of the World: Plate 27, Volume 1 (1910) by A. G. Mayer, from Medusae of the World.

Source: MBLWHOI Library / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/807ef1f5-a5dc-4a4c-a205-c8f7883edac1

#anatomy #zoology #jellyfish #marine #medusae #art #publicdomain

December 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Will Dixon, “Malinda; Come Down to Me” (1905).

Source: Duke University Libraries

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/77d5b0e5-3f83-4a4e-b491-65ea7ff74ecd

#moon #night #african-american #music #blackface #romance #design #banjos #art #publicdomain

December 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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“The Frenchman Palissy wanted to make nice china.” (1873) by Japanese Department of Education.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9263648a-514a-4897-911e-fa4fca011014

#fire #chairs #axes #art #publicdomain

December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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“A true Projection of the System of the known Comets, all in just Proportion and Position to the Orbits of Saturn and Jupiter.” (1750) by Thomas Wright, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

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illustration from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe

December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Illustration by Raoul-Auger Feuillet , from Choregraphie (1701).

Source: @bpl.boston.gov‬ / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ff0d857d-840c-49df-9766-4e1a77291be8

#music #notation #dance #calligraphy #choreography #ballet #dancing #movement #art

December 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Illustration by William Baillie-Grohman, from Sport in Art (1913).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c82e4521-5942-4660-baff-23e736bed0a2

#hunting #dogs #animals #archery #falconry #medieval #death #games #art #publicdomain

illustration of hunting from Baillie-Grohman's iconography

December 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Illustration by Anton Schöner, from Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906).

Source: American Museum of Natural History Library / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/52dce6bc-bc5c-4796-adfe-46ec4deb256e

#breeding #birds #pigeons #evolution #art

December 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Illustration by Christian von Mechel, from Stufe vom Frosch zum Apoll (ca. 1785).

Source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/aba218e5-87e1-4804-a172-9dc4c0d4e5fa

#apollo #portraiture #portraits #morphing #sequential #aesthetics #physiognomy #art #publicdomain

stage from Lavater's frog to Apollo sequence

December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Picnic (ca. 1910).

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/05a0ca6a-4c9e-41cc-93a8-117ea7325ae4

#family #stereographs #nature #israel #dining #stereoscopes #jerusalem #fields #cooking #picnics #palestine #art #publicdomain

December 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Illustration by Benjamin Betts, from Geometrical Psychology, or, The Science of Representation an Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887).

Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/897d884a-3700-40d5-a838-f275fa954604

#consciousness

December 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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Tsuba made of iron with a crayfish in high relief; gold details. (1916) by Georg Oeder, from Japanische Stichblätter und Schwertzieraten.

Source: @bpl.boston.gov‬ / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b9a78ba2-0a87-45de-b2ff-d201df8bb905

#lobsters #japan #samurai #swords #metalwork

December 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Great Barrier Reef Echinoderms (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia.

Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5d14f28e-79f6-4809-9d38-36012f90dd9c

#biodiversity #fish #invertebrates

December 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).

Source: National Library of the Netherlands

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/09bc662b-9cdc-416f-abd5-ec3cfe38c279

#animals #rabbits #bestiary #cooking #art #publicdomain

manuscript illustration from jacob van maerlant der naturen bloeme

December 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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[Jack London in 1904] (1921) by Charmian London, from The Book of Jack London
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Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b8e8bf6f-75ff-4943-a607-2320398e7721

#reincarnation #hallucination #art #publicdomain

December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Dragonfly, Pear, Carnation, and Insect. (1561–1596) by Joris Hoefnagel, Georg Bocskay, from Mira calligraphiae monumenta.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a870edd8-996c-4ed3-8c24-e538a42a44e2

#dragonflies #insects #manuscripts

December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Illustration by Kumataro Ito, from Notes and Description of Specimens Collected on the Philippine Expedition of the Steamer Albatross (ca. 1908).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b2cd308d-e17e-4862-b4bb-dcdc0fc4e4bf

#aquatic