Bookplates

The University of Notre Dame has a bookplate registry. Link…

Mug Shots

Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937. Link…

Hellenica

All things Greek, including information about Aitna tetradrachm, the world's most valuable coin. Link…

Digital de Canarias

All things Canary Islands. Link…

Bearded Man on a Cloud

''Imagines veteris ac Novi Testamenti' [direct link to 48.4Mb PDF] is just one of the many illustrated bibles that The University of London has in its extensive collection. Link…

Native Peoples of Siberia

Part of the Meeting of Frontiers collection. Link…

Railway Telecomms

Yes, that's right. It's all about railway telephones. 30 years of experience. Well done, Sam. Link…

Queer things about Egypt

"Egyptians have a habit of sleeping with their mouths open. Under an arch by the Beit-el-Kadi at Cairo, I came upon a seller of magenta-coloured celluloid bracelets sleeping, with her head thrown back over the stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall. Her mouth was like a black tunnel—you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate, gums or linings—they were so thickly coated with crawling flies. It was large enough to take in a short snake like Cleopatra's asp, quite comfortably."
Sixty-five intimate pictures of country life in Upper Egypt by Douglas Sladen (1911). Link… [link updated 8 July 2008]