These images of the LA Alligator Farm depict a level of casual proximity unthinkable today.
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These images of the LA Alligator Farm depict a level of casual proximity unthinkable today.
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An early guide to communicating in the language now known as Plains Indian Sign Language.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/indian-sign-talk
Those who sipped or sniffed ether and chloroform in the 19th century experienced a range of effects from these repurposed anaesthetics, including preternatural mental clarity, psychological hauntings, and slippages of space and time. Mike Jay explores how the powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain — psychonauts who opened the door to an invisible dimension of mind and suffered Promethean consequences.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dreams
Taking a child on a tour through punctuation, Mr. Stops introduces him to a cast of literal “characters”: admiring exclamation marks and militaristic semicolons.
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In these images, Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods.
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A collection of more than 60 sundial inscriptions, exploring various themes relating to the passing of time.
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From cabbage green to course meal, medieval manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and consistencies when describing urine. Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy: how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body's liquid excretions.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled-waters
In this “personal guidance” film, Phil the shy guy learns a valuable lesson: to fit in, you need to “think about the other guy”.
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In these illustrations, Emerson's words are interpreted literally, repurposed for cheeky, teasing, and toothless ends.
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A sprawling eighty-page poem about teeth, written by an eminent dentist, with fifty pages of erudite endnotes.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dentologia