Dreamers Rise

By mid-afternoon he was driving through a sinuous valley that wove through a range of low, rounded hills. On the summits and slopes the leav...

Artwork by Richard Doyle from The Scouring of the White Horse by Thomas Hughes. These illustrations are not in the copy I have, which is th...

“The illusory emptiness ...” – K The long, low ferry, illuminated only by a single lantern that rattled on its bow, slowly drew into shore, ...

German postage stamps, 1923. The highest denomination here: 20,000,000,000 marks. (That one must have been for Special Delivery.) The first ...

I was already finding the repetitive images in these stamps a little disturbing even before I figured out what they were. The topography in ...

Below are some examples of notgeld (emergency money), issued c.1918-1922 by a number of German cities and other public and private entities...

Some seasonally appropriate images by the printmaker Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957), via the extensive online galleries of the Los Angeles Coun...

The men picked their way gingerly down the side of the ridge, traversing through the snow in broad snowshoes made of hard white ash, steadyi...

Illustrations by Frederick Richardson from L. Frank Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix (1905). The Roly-Rogues live high in the mountains above th...

Some souvenirs from the days before paperback publishing became entirely respectable. The above cover may be the only time the French noveli...