Atlas
These pages of mine are only some of many to be lost in on the web. Allow me to share with you some exceptional, interesting, or otherwise fascinating pages and reads that you may wish to explore, beyond the bounds of my domain.
Art, Manuscripts
Amsterdam Pipe Museum Collection
Approaching the divine, Il Gesù, Rome
Between Amsterdam and Asia, a Dutch East India Company ship
Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr
Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: Twenty Years that Changed the World of Art
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
Early Arabic Printing: Movable Type & Lithography
Fashioning luxury from a coconut
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art
Graphic design in educational television
Hiding the divine in a medieval Madonna
How A Black Man Was Immortalized In The Raft Of The Medusa
If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
The landscape remade, Thiebaud's Ponds and Streams
The Medieval Bestiary — animals in the middle ages
Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology
NASA Graphics Standards Manual
Natural Interactions in the Book as Art and Making Knowledge
Nature as Refuge: Gong Xian's Eight Views of Landscape
The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera
La plante et ses applications ornementales
Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children's Books, 1917-1953
Sacred geometry in a Renaissance ceiling from Spain
Saintly violence? Santiago in the Americas
In Search of True Color: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed Images
Splendor solis; alchemical treatises of Solomon Trismosin
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921)
Tesserae as time machine: 5th and 13th century mosaics in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Clothing, Dress
All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume
Artful Nature: Fashion and Theatricality 1770-1830
The Blackwork Embroidery Archives
Body and Clothes: an Illustrated History of Costume
The Ceaseless Century: Three Hundred Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume
The Cut of Men's Clothes 1600-1900
Costume: Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical
Fashioning the bourgeoisie: a history of clothing in the nineteenth century
Global trade and an 18th-century Anishinaabe outfit
How Did Victorian Ladies Stay Warm in Winter?
Indian clothing before Cortés: Mesoamerican costumes from the codices
Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands
An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing & wigmaking
Javanese batik designs from metal stamps
Keeping Track of Time: Georgian Watch Chains, Equipages, Fobs, and Chatelaines
A knotted puzzle buried for a millennium
The Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Archives
La marinière — le style de marin
Mansoojat Foundation Museum of Arabian Costume
Marriage apron (itjogolo or ijogolo)
Pacific patterns: understanding bark cloth
Theatre and fashion: Oscar Wilde to the suffragettes
Undertaking the Making: LACMA Costume and Textiles Pattern Project
Eating, Food
A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year
Apicius' Cookery and Dining in Ancient Rome
Burger Invasion: The History of McDonald's and Disney
The book of Jewish food — an odyssey from Samarkand to New York
Foods that Will Win the War and How to Cook Them
How This Socialist Sausage Changed the World
The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
The Real Story Behind Fanta's Nazi German Origins
The Rise and Fall of White Bread
Without a Source for Salt, This Tribe Created a Delicious Substitute
Languages, Speaking
Can You Experience an Emotion If You Don't Have a Word for It?
Language is Everywhere: The Linguistics of Biology, Culture, and Society across Time and Space
Listening, Music
Architecture as a Mnemonic Device: Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music
Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery
How Ravel Writes for Orchestra
Rhapsody in Blue: How Gershwin Broke the Mold
The Piano Trio: Why I Love It (& Why It's Difficult)
Plays Well with Others: Duets in Instrumental Treatises
Preaching to the Choir: American Jazz and Cold War Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
Medicine, Plagues, Bodies
The celebrity physician and the plague
Death around the world in ten objects
How Big Pharma is Extending the Pandemic
Medical Astrology: Science, Art, and Influence in early-modern Europe
Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response
Nature, The World
'Forest gardens’ show how Native land stewardship can outdo nature
How the waters off Catalina became a DDT dumping ground
Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest
Natural History Museum of Rotterdam's Mollusk Database
The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit
The woman who will help keep seaweed-eating sheep on an Orkney beach
Society, History, and Tradition
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum online collection
Below the Surface — The archaeological finds of the North / Southline
To Build an 18th-Century Ship, Shipwrights Had to Remaster a Lost Craft
Brienne Collection — A Postal Treasure Trove
Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
The Downfall of Henry Ford's Secret Country in Brazil
The history of ink, including its etymology, chemistry, and bibliography
Line Goes Up — The Problem with NFTs
National Museum of American History online collection
New Bedford Whaling Museum online collection
Objects and Stories at the Railway Museum
The Oral History of the Yavapai
Orbis: the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
The Origins of Metaphysics - How Parmenides was the First and Last Prophet of the One Being
The Politics of Colonial Translation: On the Narrative of the Ainu as a 'Vanishing Ethnicity'
Precedents So Scrawl'd and Blurr'd: Readers' Marks in Law Books
Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain
Stories, Media, Fiction
Alexander, the Servant, & the Water of Life
The Book of Wonderful Characters
Deep Backgrounds: Landscapes of Labor in All the President’s Men
Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny
Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space
"Moby Dick" d'après le roman de Herman Melville
The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love
A Year Later, I Still Can't Stop Thinking About Disco Elysium
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo
Wikipedia
Long-time nuclear waste warning messages
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker