Category: Images

The Gentleman’s Magazine of 1738 provides an actual map of the Garden of Eden.

Check out the Gorgon! Honestly, it looks friendlier than I’d imagined.

Since we’re supposed to get a tropical storm here in Boston this weekend and it’s pouring out right now (Thursday noontime, US EST), I went looking for a ‘tropical storm’ image for our pick this week. Before I could find one, though, I came across a [Collection of medical and magical treatises] from somewhere in the fifteenth century and decided this was definitely worth a highlight.

Check out the cover of this manuscript notebook filled by James Rush during a lecture by his father, Benjamin Rush, sometime in the early nineteenth century.

Cover of an 1877 advertising pamphlet for Boyer’s Carmelite Melissa Cordial. Click on the image below to see the full item!

The cover of an advertisement booklet for the Maison de Santé de Picpus in Paris; there’s no date in the metadata for the item but it has a late nineteenth century look to me.

This one’s from Dr Miles’ candy book (1900), full of great suggestions if you’re feeling sugar-deprived this year and have some time on your hands!

It’s the month for bones, yes? Well, all months are for bones, really, but this is particularly the month for bones. These are from John Gordon’s 1818 Engravings of the skeleton of the human body.