A few illustrations from William Elliot Griffis’ Korean Fairy Tales (1922). Read the whole book, and see more of its images, here:
Rare sighting of the Nantucket Sea-Serpent in 1937 ... quickly revealed to be a publicity stunt by ambitious puppeteer Tony Sarg. Despite the hoax working a treat, Sarg would subsequently struggle to compete in the ruthless puppeteer market: http://buff.ly/1JHAAkZ image
Illustrations of various strains of pollen in extreme magnification, as featured in Ueber den Pollen (1837), a book by St. Petersburg based German pharmacist and chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche: image
"Friendship books" were the #Facebook of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: #FriendshipDay
"Having accidentally tasted the dragon's blood, Siegfried becomes able to understand the language of the birds which tells him of Brünnhilde, the fair maiden who sleeps on a fire-encircled rock..." As pictured in The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913): image
Happy birthday Beatrix Potter, born #onthisday in 1866. Here she is as teenager with her pet mouse Xarifa. More in our essay on her life by the late Frank Delaney: #otd image
Beautiful illustrations of iron interacting with rocks, from the publication of a paper, "On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata", delivered by the botanist and geologist George Maw to the Geological Society on April 22nd 1868:
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: image
Photographs of sea stars, collected during the Siboga Expedition around Indonesia, 1899–1900. More here: