New Old Time

Schöpf 1792 Testudo graeca turtle journal on Victorian herpetologist's desk with cabinet of curiosities, tortoise shells and copper engraving plates - LeBonJournal

The Shell and the Scalpel: Schöpf’s Naturgeschi...

Johann David Schöpf arrived in North America as a military surgeon during the Revolutionary War and left with the raw material for the most comprehensive study of turtles the world...

The Shell and the Scalpel: Schöpf’s Naturgeschi...

Johann David Schöpf arrived in North America as a military surgeon during the Revolutionary War and left with the raw material for the most comprehensive study of turtles the world...

Gentleman in early 20th century tweed attire holding an early reflex camera pointed at the viewer, with a breathtaking Austrian alpine landscape behind him - LeBonJournal

The Camera and the Poster: How Graphic Art Sold...

In the early twentieth century, advertising artists selling the new portable camera were selling something far more radical: the idea that the ordinary world was worth recording. A look at...

The Camera and the Poster: How Graphic Art Sold...

In the early twentieth century, advertising artists selling the new portable camera were selling something far more radical: the idea that the ordinary world was worth recording. A look at...

Tokyo journal with vintage travel poster cover on a Japanese lacquered table with matcha tea, cherry blossom petals, and Tokyo Tower glowing at sunset through a shoji screen window - LeBonJournal

The City Between Two Worlds: Tokyo and the Art ...

Tokyo is the world’s most paradoxical city — ancient and ultramodern, intimate and overwhelming, traditional and perpetually reinventing itself. A look at how mid-century travel poster artists captured its essential...

The City Between Two Worlds: Tokyo and the Art ...

Tokyo is the world’s most paradoxical city — ancient and ultramodern, intimate and overwhelming, traditional and perpetually reinventing itself. A look at how mid-century travel poster artists captured its essential...

Tea journal with vintage advertising collage cover on the counter of a charming early 20th century tea shop with glass jars of loose-leaf teas, fine porcelain teacups, silver teapots and a three-tiered stand with scones - LeBonJournal

The Cup That Conquered the World: Tea, Empire, ...

Tea has financed empires, defined social rituals, and inspired some of the most beautiful commercial art ever produced. A look at the Golden Age of Tea — from the Victorian...

The Cup That Conquered the World: Tea, Empire, ...

Tea has financed empires, defined social rituals, and inspired some of the most beautiful commercial art ever produced. A look at the Golden Age of Tea — from the Victorian...

Regency scene with pink rhododendron blooms in foreground, young woman in white muslin dress holding a rhododendron branch, and a gentleman on horseback arriving through a misty English parkland - LeBonJournal

The Most Expensive Flower Book Ever Made: Thorn...

Robert John Thornton spent a decade and his entire fortune producing The Temple of Flora — the most ambitious and expensive botanical book of the Georgian era. A look at...

The Most Expensive Flower Book Ever Made: Thorn...

Robert John Thornton spent a decade and his entire fortune producing The Temple of Flora — the most ambitious and expensive botanical book of the Georgian era. A look at...

Edwardian boy with rosy cheeks and brown velvet suit reading at a wooden table, with a lush Cretaceous wetland landscape opening behind him - LeBonJournal

The Ostrich Mimic and the Cocoa Cards: Heinrich...

In 1906, Heinrich Harder painted the prehistoric world for Die Gartenlaube — and his illustrations became the most widely distributed paleoart of the early twentieth century, tucked into packets of...

The Ostrich Mimic and the Cocoa Cards: Heinrich...

In 1906, Heinrich Harder painted the prehistoric world for Die Gartenlaube — and his illustrations became the most widely distributed paleoart of the early twentieth century, tucked into packets of...