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Damayanti, Lost in Her Thoughts, While Everyone else Sleeps, folio from an unidentified Nala­Damayanti, ca. 1785. Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, included in Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts—The Kronos Collections

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Ray Eames holding Dot Pattern fabric, Library of Congress

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Gallery at the Newark Public Library, c. 1910

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Safronova Antoneena Federovna, Odessa Food Trust box and cover, ca. 1922. Printed paper on board

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 

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Hannah Höch’s poster promoting the Frühlings-Messe Der Kunstgewerbe Gruppe, Berlin, 1925 (via Christies)

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Fingers crossed that this will someday escape the clutches of private ownership...

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Linnea’s Haircut from Linnea Hendrickson, c. 1950s.

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Nikolai Sokolov, “Spa Hotel in Matsesta,” 1928-29. Course project for the architecture department at Vkhutemas. From the archives of the Щусев State Museum of Architechture, via Togda Zine.

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Celebrating one hundred years of Duchamp’s readymade at MoMA

[thebrassierefactory]

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Grete Sterne, Advertisement for Bostanjoglo No. 7, Russian cigarettes, c. 1928

[furtho]

Cover of Ogonyok magazine, USSR, 1939 (via togdazine)

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archimaps: The telegram office for newspaper Die Zeit, Vienna

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Diane Arbus, Clouds on Screen at a Drive-in-Movie, NJ, 1960

[nemfrog]

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nemfrog: Lichtburg movie theater, Berlin. Advertising outdoors. April 1931.

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The Shangri-Las

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[rings-of-slattern]

cavetocanvas: La Combe I - Ellsworth Kelly, 1950

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William Morris reliquary

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

This is a locket with Morris’s hair, set into a wooden case. The front of the case is covered ingold plate, and the whole was designed by Robert Catterson-Smith and probably constructed by Charles James Fox. The verse inscribed on the back was written by Morris’s friend and publisher F. S. Ellis. I used this gorgeous piece for the cover of my recent book on Victorian era relics and ephemera: Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture.