1860s

“But are not all facts. Dreams as soon as we put them behind us.’’ Emily Dickinson, daguerrotype, c. 1847

BoWo Studio, Human Cartography: Herman Melville / New York / Paper Cut Map (2017) > (Writers On Their Hometowns). Not Kenesaw high-arching,...

Julius Kirschner, Blind Children Studying the Globe, 1914 "In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut...

L'Education sentimentale, Gustave Flaubert, 1869 . “Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such...

Inge Morath, Winter carnival procession, Bad Gastein, Austria, 1955 “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense....

Edouard Manet, The Balcony, 1869 ...

Heinrich Bunting, Map of Europe shaped as a virgin, 1582 Sebastian Munster, Europe, 1570 Sebastian Munster, Europe...

Victor Guidalevitch - An Alley of Trees in Sunlight Josef Breitenbach, Sunrise from my Window, 1951...

Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1849 . “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings,...

My dear Ina, Though I don’t give birthday presents, still I may write a birthday letter. I came to your...