“Enemy Submarine being fired on. Our Destroyers hunting enemy Submarine.” Annotated sketches by Herbert Hillier drawn during the Battle of Gallipoli, July 9, 1915. [3167x2480]
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2024/03/21 22:11 UTC
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Business correspondence between American slave traders, 1841, transcription in comments [1650 x 973]
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2024/03/20 14:36 UTC
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“Allegory of vanity; men and women looking at the skeletal remains of beauty.” Print by Abraham Allard. [1152x1622]
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2024/03/04 00:01 UTC
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"A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the Humane British and Their Worthy Allies!" War of 1812-era American political cartoon. [7744x5456]
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2024/02/02 19:37 UTC
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"A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled 'mirac'. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345." [1322x1755]
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2024/01/26 22:16 UTC
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"No Substitution." The January/February page from the Antikamnia pharmaceutical company's calendar from 1900. Lithograph by Louis Crusius. [1308x1884]
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2024/01/04 04:01 UTC
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A manuscript page of binary numbers and binary multiplication by Thomas Harriot circa 1605. (Leibniz is often credited with inventing binary numbers even though he was not born until 1646.) [1500 x 2500]
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2023/12/16 12:46 UTC
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Camarão Indians' Letters - 6 letters exchanged between the Potiguara Indians of Brazil in 1645. In it, the authors discuss the Dutch invasion of Brazil and which side their people should take. These letters are the only surviving samples of the Old Tupi language. [4088x2527]
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2023/12/15 06:37 UTC
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U. S. Citizenship Naturalization Record for Henry Kissinger [3521 x 4272]
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2023/11/30 16:33 UTC
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Lee Harvey Oswald's Request to Relinquish U.S. Citizenship and Declaration of Allegiance to the USSR (1959-10-31) [1600 x 2400]
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2023/11/24 03:45 UTC
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"This is a certificate of identity for Dr. Esther E. Leonard. Dr. Leonard served as a contract surgeon during World War I at the U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1 in New York City and at an evacuation hospital in Vichy, France." [4430x4536]
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2023/11/17 23:07 UTC
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Ottoman Fatwa declaring Jihad against the Entente Powers during the First World War (1914-11-14) [1654 x 5074]
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2023/11/15 03:39 UTC
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"Try C.F. Blanke and Co.'s Peaches and Cream Mascott Coffee." Advertising card by Charles Brown, 1888. [3401x5630]
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2023/11/14 23:20 UTC
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Letter from George Washington authorizing Nathaniel Sackett to set up a spy ring, 1777 [1500 x 2250]
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2023/11/03 03:47 UTC
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Balfour Declaration (1917-11-02) [1497 x 2257]
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2023/10/26 04:39 UTC
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"Just out of the trenches, they are glad of a rest." WWI photo in scrapbook with accompanying captions identifying the fates of the soldiers pictured, c. 1917. [2672x3588]
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2023/10/13 22:19 UTC
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Persian-language military manual written c.1830 for the "Fauj-i-Khas," the elite corps of the Sikh Empire. The Fauj-i-Khas were trained along French lines, and the illustrations show European-style uniforms and drilling [1596x1200]
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2023/10/07 18:01 UTC
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Front Page of the Soviet/Russian Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda 66 years ago, two days after the launch of Sputnik (1957-10-06) [732 x 515]
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2023/10/06 20:22 UTC
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Pythagoras (centre) teaches 8 other physicians (Andromachus the Elder, Andromachus the Younger, Heraclides, Philagrius, Proclus, Magnus of Mesa, & Galen). From the Kitab al-Diryaq (Book of Antidotes), an 1198 Arabic medical treatise + collection of tales about these nine Greek physicians. [751x1024]
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2023/09/08 11:16 UTC
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Christoph Haizmann's pact with the Devil, 1669. A poor painter, Haizmann allegedly entered a contract where the Devil would collect his soul in 9 years' time. In 1677, as the pact was coming due, Haizmann experienced demonic possession. After being cured by exorcism, he became a monk. [735x600]
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2023/08/05 06:00 UTC
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"Fifteen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C. Miksch, 1923." [2039x1002]
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2023/07/15 20:28 UTC
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[2365x2364] Can someone tell me how rare this is?
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2023/07/14 18:00 UTC
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Order of procession for the funeral of Governor John Hancock in Boston, Massachusetts, October 1793. [3600x6343]
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2023/06/30 20:54 UTC
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Message from General Dwight Eisenhower requesting that members of Congress visit concentration camps in person in order to witness the atrocities of the Nazis firsthand, 1945, via Presidential Wisdom on Twitter [1284 x 1597]
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2023/06/24 02:02 UTC
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Page from a Persian bestiary depicting a Simurgh. From Maragheh, Iran; Ilkhanate era; 1297-98 or 1299-1300 CE. [730x900]
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2023/06/09 16:41 UTC
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"Transvestite Certificate" issued by the German Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft to Eva Katter (1928-11-23) [1000 x 649]