The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland
The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland (1855), written by botanist Thomas Moore with color engravings by Henry Bradbury, provided fern enthusiasts not only with …
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The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland (1855), written by botanist Thomas Moore with color engravings by Henry Bradbury, provided fern enthusiasts not only with …
Parlor magic, easy-to-learn illusions performed for a small crowd, became a popular form of entertainment during the nineteenth century. This type of performance usually involved …
One of the most impressive and unusual maps made of an American city in the nineteenth century was Richard J. Compton and Camille N. Dry’s …
French illustrator Gustave Doré was one of the most successful book artists of the nineteenth century, known for his illustrated editions of popular works like …
Even though it only lasted about twenty minutes, the Great Cyclone of May 27, 1896 was the single deadliest event in St. Louis history. The …
The Anatomy of Humane Bodies (1698) by the English surgeon and anatomist William Cowper (1666–1709) is one of the most visually striking and controversial medical books …
Special Collections owns two first edition copies of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, a narrative that summarizes Grant’s life as a series of extreme …
Satirical cartoons by the prolific nineteenth-century British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank often circulated in popular periodicals, where he would ridicule all aspects of …
METAscripta is a large-scale digital humanities project of the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library (VFL) in the Department of …
Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, published by John Heywood of Manchester in 1773, is a collection of caricatures and poems by “Tom Bobbin” – …