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A 1851 chromolithograph of a <n>Histioteuthis bonelliana</n> by artist <n>Jean Baptiste Vérany</n>.

The Voyage of Life: Childhood

A design from the book <n>Hamonshū</n> by Japanese artist <n>Mori Yuzan</n>, published in 1903.

The <n>Legs Akimbo exercise</n> from the 1917 book <n>Physical Training for Business Men</n>. Photo by <n>A. B. Phelan</n>.

A diagram from <n>James Sowerby</n>'s 1809 book, <n>A New Elucidation of Colours</n>.

<n>Plate 3 from An Essay on Light and Shade</n> (1805), a watercolour and etching by <n>Mary Gartside</n>.

<n>Farbenkugel</n> (Color Sphere), an 1810 illustration by German Romantic painter <n>Philipp Otto Runge</n>.

Cover illustration by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> for <n>Old French Fairy Tales</n> (1920) by <n>Sophie, comtesse de Ségur</n>.

An 1870 engraving by <n>Hildibrand</n> from an illustration by <n>Émile-Antoine Bayard</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s novel 'Around the Moon'.

An illustration used as a profile picture by the London-based band <n>Working Men's Club</n>.

Plate XXVI by <n>Thomas Wright</n> from his 1750 book <n>An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe</n>.

A diagram from <n>Sim D. Kehoe</n>'s "<n>The Indian Club Exercise</n>" (1866).

An illustration by <n>Kay Nielsen</n> for the book <n>East of the Sun and West of the Moon</n>, 1914.

Plate VII from <n>Thomas Wright</n>'s 1750 book, <n>An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe</n>.

18th-century tarot cards from <n>Etteilla</n>'s "<n>Livre de Thot</n>", engraved by <n>Pierre-François Basan</n>.

A woodcut by <n>Agnes Giberne</n> from *<n>The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars</n>* (1898).

<n>South Vietnamese troops</n> in the <n>Mekong Delta</n> during the <n>Vietnam War</n>, 1961.

Illustration by <n>Edmund Dulac</n> for a 1915 edition of Shakespeare's <n>The Tempest</n>.

Digital collage by artist <n>Madi</n> titled '<n>Opportunity always finds me</n>'.

<n>Around the Projectile</n>, an 1870 illustration by <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s 'Around the Moon'.