Disparaged images from Why My Photographs Are Bad by Charles Maus Taylor (1902).
(via krissywilson)
Plate left folded through digitization, excluding key information about the conflict (?) at hand.
The frontispiece to Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, on Discovery by John Rickman (1781). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 27, 2007.
The resting hand.
From p.27 of The Irish Historical Library by William Nicholson and and Edward Lhuyd (1724). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized August 2, 2005.
Newspaper clipping about Harriet Tubman, hand-dated 1897.
From the front matter of Harriet: The Moses of Her People by Sarah H. Bradford (1897).