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Turns out Toronto, like many other nineteenth-century cities, had its own Crystal Palace. Built in 1858; here it is depicted in 1871.
I like that the tradition of drastically overselling dodgy Seabury Quinn stories with insane covers has continued now for almost a century.
An elegant edition of Andrew Lang's The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897). Neat scan by National Library NZ.
A rare bird for #FossilFriday: Kurt Regschek's 'Urvogel (Archäopteryx)' (ca. 1955). Unfortunately for the select group of palaeontology-surrealism connoisseurs, this painting seems to have been auctioned off with little info.
The covers to the short-lived 1930s pulp Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror had a really great aesthetic of uncanny incompetence.
I read in a letter of 02.03.25 from the @NHM_Library that Lord Leverhulme commissioned the landscape gardeners Pulhams to build large models of prehistoric animals in a park in Liverpool. NHM advised Alice B. Woodward to contact Pulhams. Any Liverpudlians know if this existed?
Last call for my talk today on nineteenth-century paranormal palaeontology, the sign-up link to which can be found below. Virtual doors open at 16:15 GMT. https://t.co/aD3vK67OjI
At 16:15 GMT on Wednesday 28th April I'll be talking to @19thCLincoln about 'Literature and Borderline Geoscience: The Case of Paranormal Palaeontology in the Late Nineteenth Century'. Sign up for the free event at https://t.co/XdaAW1iGsm