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Science history bookseller writer--visual culture--naive surreal--information display--books & illustration--formal+outsider logic+image
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Ptak Science Books: Daily Dose of Dr. Odd--Future of Air Travel, ca. 1900
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Daily Dose: futuristic air travel, ca. 1900. #aviation #future http://t.co/O44xzgkB
A Picture Book Without Pictures
lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/a-picture-book-without-pictures/Doc Watson dies at 89; guitarist and singer
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Great, great loss of a national treasure: Doc Watson. LA Times. http://t.co/k6Goy7Hb #bluegrass #oldtime
Image) Moorish Science Temple of America, led by Prophet Noble Drew.
digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?c=&d=&e=w&f=&imageID=1168423&imgs=20&k=...[And next, the brownies gathered round a stereopticon machine that cast its rays upon a screen] - ID: 1704741 - NYPL Digital Gallery
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Children's book illus for science/Brownies #microscope #stereopticon 1890 or so. #histsci http://t.co/H9owaeQo
Image) Guided by Minerva, Mercury delivers science around the world... 1836 #histsci
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(Image) Guided by Minerva, Mercury delivers science around the world... 1836 #histsci http://t.co/5AbeKh4a
Cigarette card for Sputnik, 1957/8. Education via Big Tobacco!
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Players cig cards: Australian machine guns, 1920's-'30's. #Gun #AUstralia http://t.co/yFTVSfiu
"Quarters Clean Guns" - ID: 1136794 - NYPL Digital Gallery
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Unusual post-card like image of cleaning 10-inch naval gun, ca. 1940
Ptak Science Books: Photography of the Quick and the "Still": Trouvelot's Sparks and Stars, ca. 1890
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Photos of the Quick and the Still/Stars & Sparks, 1880's. Trouvelot. #astronomy #histsci http://t.co/IYgIr6dB
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