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In Monsters, white contour lines curve around humanoid figures. One figure is leaf shaped, stretching from the print’s top left corner to the bottom right. This leaf resembles a human face, with eyes, eyebrows, and even forehead lines at the top, a…

In The Postman, a seated man and his instrument take up most of the print. His clothes indicate that he is, indeed, a postman, but his identity as a musician comes first here. His instrument appears to be almost the size of his upper body, and it…

Cover of a promotional 78 rpm record, created for the Perry Knitting Company's "Nitey Nite" line of children's sleepwear, features a photograph similar to its print advertising of the time. In the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle a local department…

This excerpt of a Swiss song appeared in a medical study on the phenomenon of nostalgia, usually glossed in English as "homesickness." A researcher named Johannes Hofer had coined the term in his 1688 dissertation, observing that Swiss mercenary…

Somewhat of an outlier among the New Deal Gallery paintings, Morton’s composition follows in a tradition of European genre painting. We see a cozily circumscribed group of four people in traditional clothing, gathered under a pool of light and…