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Je m'appelle Léa Marchet, je suis étudiante en graphisme à Paris. J'aime les belles choses comme ceci. Illustrations scientifiques anciennes, des vieux et beaux livres et autres choses imprimées....

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William Henry Jackson  The Tower of Babel ca. 1880 Albumen silver print 54.0 x 42.5 cm. 1981.2248.0017

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Distichopora gracilis. Hydrocorals of the North Pacific Ocean. 1938.

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~ Figure Emerging from a Waterlily. Culture: Maya Medium: Ceramic, pigment Place Found: Campeche, Mexico Date: 600-900 Period: Late Classic Period

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Anatomy of the sense of smell. Bilderbuch für Kinder. 1802. 

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Ernst Haeckel - A monograph of the British fossil corals - 1850 - via Internet Archive

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Henry Vuibert, Les anaglyphes géométriques, Vuibert, Paris, ca. 1912 (on the way of @artspotting, via The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection)

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Frank R. Paul. Science Fiction. 1939.

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It’s rare for the questions posed by seven year olds to result in much, let alone with anything as beautiful and useful as this. But seven year old Genevieve Jones is one of the exceptions. As she held a bird’s nest by her father’s side, she wondered why there were no books for her to figure out what bird species had made it. While Audubon and other naturalists had already created scientific illustrations of birds in the mid-1800s, no one had focused on the nests and eggs of these birds. Long story short—she helped make this book a reality, despite not living to see its completion.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library contains a full digital copy of the two volume set Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio (1886). Additionally, there is more on the fascinating history of this family on our website. To go even deeper, see the 2012 book America’s Other Audubon by Joy M. Kiser. In it she chronicles the Jones family as they created this rare and wonderful work.

Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio had text by Howard Jones and illustrations by N. E. Jones, Genevieve Jones, and Eliza Jane Shulze. It was self published in Circleville, Ohio by subscription  from July 1879 to December 1886.

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German biologist Ernst Haeckel illustrated and described thousands of deep-sea specimens collected during the 1873-1876 H.M.S. Challenger expedition. Haeckel used a microscope to capture the intricate structure of these radiolarians—single-celled marine organisms with glassy (silica) skeletons—for his 1879 work Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger.

See more illustrations in the Museum exhibition Opulent Oceans.

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William Cheselden, engraving showing the diseased part of a human skull, from “Osteographia, or the anatomy of the bones” (1733) 

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Lily Elsie in The Merry Widow - beginning as a child star in the 1890s, Elsie built her reputation in several successful Edwardian musical comedies before her great success in The Merry Widow, opening in 1907. Afterwards, she starred in several more successful operettas and musicals. Admired for her beauty and charm on stage, Elsie became one of the most photographed women of Edwardian times.

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Black Belt

1967 Vol. 5, No. 10

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