Heaven and how to get there.

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Johann Ulrich Kraus (German, 1655–1719) 

Hell, n.d.

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“The roller bandage.” Atlas of first-aid treatment. 1911. 

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Conclusion.

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'Firearms, as you please.' Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, by William T. Hornaday. Published 1891, ex copy of Woburn Public Library.

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1930s.

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Tobacco field in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

1940s.

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A cat sunning himself in Rangoon, Burma. 1980s.

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1860s.

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… "But maybe you have (seen a hawk make a kill): maybe you've glanced out of the window and seen there, on the lawn, a bloody great hawk murdering a pigeon, or a blackbird, or a magpie, and it looks the hugest, most impressive piece of wildness you have ever seen, like someone's tipped a snow leopard into your kitchen and you find it eating the cat."

Helen Macdonald, ‘H is for Hawk’

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“Don’t be nervous.”  From an ad for Carter’s Little Nerve Pills, c. 1890.

[paintingses]

A Moonlit Walk (detail) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

oil on board, 1882

[bearparade]

Bookshelf.

[natgeofound]

A fortune teller displays her cards in Jemaa el Fna square in Marrakesh, Morocco, June 1971.Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic

[vintagepales]

Wagner’s painting in the window of Romi Gallery, Paris, 1948 by  Robert Doisneau

[howtowhistle]

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Study of Flowers, 1720.

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Maxfield Parrish, The Blue Fountain (Study for Reveries), ca,1925

[whattheendoftheworldlookedlike]

Warsaw, Poland, 1946.