Step into Dorothy Lathrop’s dreamscapes – haunting 100-year-old illustrations of fairy-poems by the woman who became the first to win the Caldecott Medal, the Nobel Prize of illustration.

Beautiful and terrifying century-old illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Irish stained glass and book artist Harry Clarke, whose work influenced the Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and French Symbolism movements. Available as beautiful and terrifying prints. 

The visionary artist Aubrey Beardsley was born on this day in 1872. He died at only 25, having revolutionized both gender identity and the graphic arts with his groundbreaking illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s Salome. 

For Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday, William Gottlieb’s gorgeous photos of jazz greats

“Road Trips” by New Yorker artist Adrian Tomine, from New York Drawings. 

“Everything has its testing point in the eye, and the eye is an organ that eventually involves the whole personality, and as much of the world as can be got into it.”

Flannery O'Connor’s cartoons

In Paris – utterly lovely series of drawings by Lisbon-based illustrator Lapo.

Anaïs Nin would approve.

Pair with Paris vs. New York.`

When Charles Addams illustrated Mother Goose – a little-known and darkly delightful 1967 gem.

Stunning, artful, surprising: Vintage black-and-white photos of NASA facilities

Absolutely amazing black-and-white photos of vintage NASA facilities from the 1920s-1950s.

Cold War Wonderland – remarkable photos of the East/West divide.

The Girls of Atomic City – the untold story of the women behind the bomb.

Painters on Brooklyn Bridge, 1910-1914. The bridge was the engineering miracle of its time, its story equal parts unlikely and iconic.

Radiolab points to this priceless photo of Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife inside a tetrahedreal kite – a move most certainly not listed in the era’s guide to kissing. If this isn’t love, what is?

Happy birthday, chronophotography pioneer Étienne-Jules Marey!