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Description: A photomechanical print from the late 19th century, by the Meiji-era photographer and printer Ogawa Kazumasa (1860–1929).

Description: A photomechanical print from the late 19th century, by the Meiji-era photographer and printer Ogawa Kazumasa (1860–1929).

Description: Phoenicophorium seychellarum, now Phoenicophorium borsigianum, commonly known as the thief palm. From the 1878 edition of Les Palmiers Histoire Iconographique by Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem ​(1844 - 1906)​.

Description: Livistona chinensis, the Chinese fan palm or fountain palm. From the 1878 edition of Les Palmiers Histoire Iconographique by Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem ​(1844 - 1906)​.

Description: From Pictorial Monograph of Birds (1885), a collection of woodblock prints by Numata Kashu (1838-1901).

Description: Peacock and Peony illustration from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (1885), a collection of woodblock prints by Numata Kashu (1838-1901).

Description: Edward Penfield (1866-1925) was the father of the American poster movement, an influential designer whose influences included Japanese block prints and Belle Époque poster art.

Description: Eurasian tree sparrow, by Watanabe Seitei (1851–1918), a prominent kacho-ga ('flower and bird paintings') artist. This image comes from Bijutsu Sekai ('World of Art'), an art periodical edited by Seitei that ran from 1890 to 1894. The final issue was dedicated to Seitei's own woodblock prints.

Description: Tree peony, by Watanabe Seitei (1851–1918), a prominent kacho-ga ('flower and bird paintings') artist. This image comes from Bijutsu Sekai ('World of Art'), an art periodical edited by Seitei that ran from 1890 to 1894. The final issue was dedicated to Seitei's own woodblock prints.

Description: Hamers rijwielen (1912) by Dutcher painter and architect Johann Georg van Caspel, known for his Art Nouveau designs for posters, calendars, children's books, etc.

Description: Royal Bengal tiger chromolithograph from Johnson's 1880 Household Book of Nature, by John Karst

Description: From Johnson's Household Book of Nature by John Karst (1880)

Description: Quack on erratic branch (1900 - 1910) by Ohara Koson, a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs.

Description: "Butterfly pochoir pattern in Art Nouveau Oriental style," from 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental" (Samarkand: 20 Color Compositions in the Oriental Style) by E. A. Séguy

Description: Have you ever driven a forklift? It's a real rush, a feeling of power like no other. Or maybe not.

Description: I simply would rather not. I'd rathern't.