This Won't Hurt A Bit

Medical Caricatures from 1736-1932 at Lowcountry Digital Library. Other than the fact that the guy has gout, I'd say the second illustration here is just for the risqué.

American History

Most of these pictures are from the April 2007 - Graphics in Nineteenth-Century America issue of Common Place. There are some great articles too. I found the site whilst researching this question at Ask Metafilter.

Russian Uniforms

No, really this time.










Another set from the Russian State Library. Representation of uniform coats of the Russian Imperial forces, as shown by images of 88 people, illuminated. (1793). Jakob von Lude.

Penny Postcards

This site has some unusual postcards.

Russian People

Now that my RSS feed has exposed me through an aberrant keystroke: Here is the first post from the Russian State Library.







Peoples of Russia: Sketches in pencil and pen. (1894). Drawings in pen and pencil by L. L. Balyakin. From the Russian State Library.

Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

Two scenes from the panorama:



A life and times of Garibaldi plus a fabulous panorama at Brown University. From the site:

'Moving' panoramas displayed one scene at a time. Attached to rollers, the paintings could be unrolled slowly as a narrator described each vignette to the audience. Markers attached to the paintings would serve as guides for the persons cranking the piece as well as the narrator. An interval would have been announced upon reaching the end of side one, in order for the staff to turn the panorama around for displaying the second side.

This sounds fabulous.

Carry On Urania

Little known fact: There are 15,000+ covers posted at MondoUrania. 15 of them feature people (and an unidentified ape) being carried. Careful clicking around there if you're at work - there are a lot of naked and bikini-clad women in space.