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Rose Mackenberg’s deceptive activism

Discover how a New York private investigator became part of Houdini’s mission to expose the fraudulent mediums making money from their vulnerable, grieving clients.

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The current that kills

In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.

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How homesickness inspires art

Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.

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Graphic battles in pharmacy

James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.

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  • 'Zymine' peptonising tubes - Fairchild / Fairchild Bros. & Foster (Inc) New York.
  • The ship of fools / trans. Alexander Barclay.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners are sitting at benches eating and reading as a man at the top of the room watches over them. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamay.
  • New York City: firemen march through the street carrying torches. Wood engraving.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in chains are working with hammers breaking stones on the side of the roadway, a guard in a jacket and trousers with a cane is watching over them from under a tree. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • Medical Life, Volume XXXIX, 1932.
  • Senora Pastrana, a bearded woman. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
  • Senora Pastrana, a bearded woman. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
  • The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
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