New Old Time

Victorian Naturalist Study — Vuillemin & Emslie Geological Atlas and Specimens

Reading the Earth: Vuillemin, Emslie, and the V...

In 1788, James Hutton looked at a rock face at Siccar Point and discovered deep time. The Victorian geologists and illustrators who followed him — Vuillemin in France, Emslie and...

Reading the Earth: Vuillemin, Emslie, and the V...

In 1788, James Hutton looked at a rock face at Siccar Point and discovered deep time. The Victorian geologists and illustrators who followed him — Vuillemin in France, Emslie and...

1930s ranger desk with WPA national parks posters journal field diary and brass compass celebrating Federal Art Project legacy - LeBonJournal

America’s Best Idea: The WPA Posters and the Ma...

In 1935, the Federal Art Project put artists to work creating posters for the National Park Service. The result was a visual language so powerful it turned geography into mythology...

America’s Best Idea: The WPA Posters and the Ma...

In 1935, the Federal Art Project put artists to work creating posters for the National Park Service. The result was a visual language so powerful it turned geography into mythology...

Cœur et Nerfs: How French Medical Publishing Taught a Nation to See the Human Body

Cœur et Nerfs: How French Medical Publishing Ta...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the house of Larousse and physician Galtier-Boissière set out to make the human body visible to everyone. Through chromolithography and the work of...

Cœur et Nerfs: How French Medical Publishing Ta...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the house of Larousse and physician Galtier-Boissière set out to make the human body visible to everyone. Through chromolithography and the work of...

Mid-19th century New York harbor master desk with Colton 1863 national flags chart signal pennants brass telescope compass and ship logbook - LeBonJournal

The Language of Flags: J. H. Colton’s 1863 Char...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the ability to read a flag was a professional necessity in every port city in the world. J. H. Colton’s National Flags chart of c.1863–1866 was...

The Language of Flags: J. H. Colton’s 1863 Char...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the ability to read a flag was a professional necessity in every port city in the world. J. H. Colton’s National Flags chart of c.1863–1866 was...

Underwater view of a European river with greenish water, freshwater fish swimming among aquatic plants with dappled sunlight filtering from above - LeBonJournal

Cyprinids and Salmonids: The Golden Age of Euro...

In the first decade of the twentieth century, two publications captured the freshwater fish of Europe with chromolithographic precision: Emil Walter's Unsere Süßwasserfische (Stuttgart, 1913) and Our Country's Fishes and...

Cyprinids and Salmonids: The Golden Age of Euro...

In the first decade of the twentieth century, two publications captured the freshwater fish of Europe with chromolithographic precision: Emil Walter's Unsere Süßwasserfische (Stuttgart, 1913) and Our Country's Fishes and...

Provençal artist studio desk with cypress sketches oil paints brushes and handwritten letter celebrating Van Gogh summer of 1889 at Saint-Rémy - LeBonJournal

The Cypresses of Saint-Rémy: Van Gogh, Motion, ...

In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy. What followed was one of the most extraordinary creative periods in the history of art —...

The Cypresses of Saint-Rémy: Van Gogh, Motion, ...

In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy. What followed was one of the most extraordinary creative periods in the history of art —...