I've been thinking about drugs names. I don't think I'm alone in my occasional scrutiny of these mysterious, often ridiculous...

Artist unknown Rack Picture for Dr. Nones , 1879  Art Institute of Chicago William Michael Harnett [1848-1892] The Letter Rack The Fa...

Mott Street at Canal, c 1905 Mott Street at Canal, 2013 c.1940 Not my most elegant post, perhaps, but it makes up with ...

Iceland greys 19th century Dufour et Cie Psyche grisaille wallpaper panel. the paper trail Farrow and Ball paint chips ...

White silk, or probably beaver, hat, c 1848, from iphotocentral   Below, how did the top hat sink so low?   Lincoln in his stovep...

  I mages from Liber Chronicarum, or Book of Chronicles, better known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in both Latin and Germ...