#OnThisDay in 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa race massacre:

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Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwo...

The Cloud, one of the many lovely illustrations by Robert Anning Bell for a 1902 edition of Shelley poems. More here:

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Poems of Shelley Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell (1902)

Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93). More from the series here:

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William Blake’s *The Gates of Paradise* (1787-93)

Angels emerge from avian eggs and a figure climbs a ladder to the moon, in Blake's unique take on the emblems tradition.

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! Here's a kind turtle helping a monkey out with a ride, from the Lights of Canopus, a 19th-century Persian version of an ancient Indian collection of animal fables. More here:

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Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

Exquisite illustrations from a 19th-century Persian version of an ancient Indian collection of animal fables called the Panchatantra.

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fell for one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century when he became convinced that the "fairy photographs" taken by two girls from Yorkshire in the 1920s were real. Mary Losure explores: https://buff.ly/11byRMg #AprilFools

Michalina Janoszanka, Wiosna (Spring), ca. 1920s. One of several paintings made directly on glass by the Polish artist. More of her work in our latest post:

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Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

Overlooked kaleidoscopic images of nature painted directly onto glass.

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Painting on glass by the Polish artist Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) who perhaps better known for her role on the other side of the canvas, as...

Celebrate #WorldBookDay with a look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://buff.ly/36aQW24

This unique self-portrait, also known as “view from the left eye”, is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (famous for his work on supersonic fluid mechanics), who was born #onthisday in 1838. Read more about the image here: https://buff.ly/38AEKc5 #OTD

France in the year 2000, as envisaged in 1899. Some tech is wonderfully prescient: we've versions of Zoom, a vacuum cleaner, drone deliveries. Other visions less so, particularly those anticipating a life beneath the waves, of underwater croquet + whale buses...

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Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000

Future visions of everyday life in the year 2000, from a series of French fin-de-siècle postcards.

125 photographs of life in Palestine before the British Mandate, ca. 1896–1919:

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Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)

Stereographs depicting daily life in Palestine before the British Mandate.