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Drawing and etching by Thomas Rowlandson, from The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1809–1812) which follows the good doctor’s adventures about the countryside in search of the perfect scenery. More in our latest post: https://t.co/u3OUFZa9ID

Drawn by a Hopi man named White-Bear in 1903, these are kachinas. Popular in Hopi and Pueblo culture, a kachina is a spirit or personification of a thing in the real world, anything from a revered ancestor to a quality or concept. More here: https://t.co/7sI66vFXGm

"Impression Figure" by Margaret Watts Hughes, ca. 1900. Made using her "eidophone" which converted her voice vibrations into images.

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A few of the stunning glass-plate transparencies depicting life in Japan collected in Yokohama during the years 1908–1918 by Herbert Geddes, a manager for a Canadian import-export company. More here (and also some prints for sale) — https://t.co/qjtwNrQgaW

Illustrations showing movement of air through various rooms, from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds.

Available, with others in the series, as a print here: https://t.co/iY4alhKgCg

Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 124 years ago #onthisday

More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits & Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873) https://t.co/OfpmCTiqoA #otd

Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865.

One of the many images of #auroraborealis collected in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”, looking at how this otherworldly phenomenon has been depicted over the centuries: https://t.co/ZlJAMmqPMR

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo #onthisday in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: https://t.co/4SjvDybz2i #otd

In Japanese the circular guard above the handle of a sword is known as a "tsuba", and they became important symbols for samurai in medieval and early modern Japan. Browse images of a wonderful collection from 1916 here: https://t.co/PUbDBD2LWf

Engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet from an anonymous Chinese drawing, featured in Edme Billardon-Sauvigny's Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780).

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