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Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), directed by Max Reinhardt.

Photo by Autumn de Wilde

“Young African American Woman, Half-Length Portrait, Facing Right, With Left Hand Under Chin,” from a collection of photographs of African Americans living in Georgia compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Via the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

Illustration by Kimberly Denson.

Illustration by Zdzisław Witwicki for the 1960 Polish children’s book Z Przygód Krasnala Hałabały (“The Adventures of Hatabaty the Dwarf”), via Hippopotamus Collection.

Antonia Ordóñez (left) and Guadalupe Juarez-Ordóñez sitting on a half-moon prop for novelty photos at the Santa Monica Pier, 1920. Via Of Another Fashion.

Disneyland entrance, March 1959, photographer unknown. Via Daveland.

Source unknown.

Anjelica Huston, via The Impossible Cool.

Photo of Ann Schaufus by Clive Arrowsmith, for UK Vogue, November 1970.

Adapted from of a 1939 collage by Herbert Bayer. Reviser unknown.

“Crust of the Earth as Related to Zoology,” from Principles of Zoölogy (1848) by Louis Agassiz and Augustus Addison Gould, reprinted in Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution; via Brain Pickings.

Effie Moore & Troupe photographed by Addison Scurlock, via Black History Album.

Quartz crystal; source unknown.

The Peacock Skirt by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894.

Galaxie wallpaper by Rose Cumming, in her own home circa 1929, via Design Crisis.

Drawing by Kimberly Denson.

Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face by Barbara Kruger.

Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak, and Cornelia Thaw as Dracula’s brides in Dracula (1931), directed by Tod Browning.

Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), directed by Max Reinhardt.

Old Faithful by Kelly O’Connor.

Naturalia, Artificialia, photographer unknown, via Melbournearts.com.au.

Winter Birds by Kenojuak Ashevak, 1975; via 50 Watts.

Lara Stone by Josh Olins for Vogue Netherlands, May 2012.

Collage by rest less, via Boule de Neige.

Via Black History Album.

“Plein Soleil,” children’s-book illustration by Antoine Guilloppé.

“Chart of the Heavens Showing the Stars Visible on any Night Throughout the Year,” from Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas by W. Nitzschke, circa 1870. Via the Linda Hall Library.

Chorus girls in the revue Wien lacht wieder, Stadttheater, Vienna, 1929.

Illustration for Astrology magazine by Virgil Finlay, circa 1950s; via 50 Watts.

Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston at the Folies-Bergère, Paris, 1926. Via Wikipedia Commons.