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P. T. Barnum's Travelling Museum with some angry animals and one of a kind musical band. Pictures are from 19th century company Clay, Cosack & Co. Buffalo Lithographers & Engravers.
Franklin's lost expedition
1. The Erebus and the Terror in the ice, Pierre Eugene Grandsire, 1860.
2. Man Proposes, God Disposes, Edwin Landseer, 1864.
The Happy Times and the Sad Times
Austrian artist Wally Fialkowska, old postcards from ca. 1912.
1.Draugen (Draugr), Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen, 1895.
2.The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea, Danish artist Thorvald Niss, n.d.
The souls of those who die at sea are doomed to become a Draugen, the reanimated corpse.
King Kong, 1933. Concept art by Mario Larrinaga and Byron Crabbe.
"On a mysterious and dangerous island, a film producer captures a giant ape and brings him back to New York in the hopes of capitalizing on his prize."
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The Crystal Palace and Gardens with Dinosaurs and Human Visitors, English artist George Baxter, 1854. Dinosaurs were originally designed by natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. https://t.co/q9WoC4hxB7
Beneath the Waves; or, The Cruise of the Electric Conqueror, American writer Emerson Bell (Gilbert Patten), Street & Smith Publications, 1894.