Clik here to view.
Dr. Julius Neubronner’s Miniature Pigeon Camera
Eight years before the British were to develop the first aerial drones during WW1, Dr Julius Neubronner – personal pharmacist to the Empress of Germany (daughter of Queen Victoria) — was performing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code
Selected pages from Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code for Telegraphic Communication between Chiefs of Police, Sheriffs, Marshals and other Peace Officers of the United States and Canada (1895) -...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Animals on Trial
Murderous pigs sent to the gallows, sparrows prosecuted for chattering in Church, a gang of thieving rats let off on a wholly technical acquittal – welcome to the very strange world of medieval animal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Caruso Sings The Vowels
The great Enrico Caruso taking us through the vowels as shown in Caruso’s Method of Voice Production: the Scientific Culture of the Voice (1922) by Pasqual Mario Marafioti. When he died in 1921 Caruso...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dirty Glut
These details are from Brueghel’s Gluttony made for his Seven Vices series interspersed with images from How to Set the Table by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Manhood, Womanhood, And Their Mutual Interrelations
The following is a selection of illustrations from the extremely bizarre Creative and Sexual Science, or, Manhood, Womanhood, and their Mutual Interrelations (1875) by O.S. Fowler.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Decayed Daguerreotypes
The daguerreotype, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1837, was the first commercially successful photographic process and was popular throughout the mid-19th century. Daguerreotype portraits...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Hasheesh Eater
In 1857 Fitz Hugh Ludlow published his The Hasheesh Eater: being passages from the life of a Pythagorean, an autobiographical book in which he elaborately describes his altered states of consciousness...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The World Turned Upside Down
A series of woodcuts from an 18th century chapbook entitled The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man, Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects. As well as the amusing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tennis with Muybridge
Plates 294 to 299 of Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking collection from 1887 titled Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements, a massive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Picture in Picture
What’s a better subject for art than a majestic wall full of beautiful art? We celebrate the release of TNI Vol. 19: Art with art on art on art on art.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Too Sexy for My Shirts
From anti-bombardment balloon wear to the proto-hipster 16th century mercenaries, we take a stroll down time’s catwalk with the Public Domain Review to celebrate TNI Vol. 20: Off-Brand.
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Witch of the Woodlands
Facsimile of an 18th century chapbook concerning witches from John Ashton’s Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century (1882). Robin the “Cobler,” as punishment for his lecherous ways, is turned into a...
View Article
