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@pdimagearchive.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 5:02 PM

Portrait of Richard Owen (ca. 1880s).

Source: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1459d7ae-b2e0-4924-b63b-ecb02afbcffb

#paleontology #portrait #victorianscience #photography #art #publicdomain

Portrait of a man with distinctive facial features and aged appearance wearing formal attire.
@bakerstreetholmes.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 4:14 PM

From the cabinet:a woodcut of Pepper's Ghost, 1863: a pane of glass anda hidden lamp cast a spectre among the living,and crowds swore they saw a ghost,though no glass was visible. What is a ghost but a trick of light played upon the believing eye? #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

An 1865 wood-engraving from Le Monde Illustre of Professor John Henry Pepper's stage illusion at the Royal Polytechnic Institution: a spectral white-shrouded figure appears before a startled man, its image cast through a glass screen by a lamp hidden below the stage.
@bakerstreetholmes.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 1:05 PM

From the cabinet: a zoetrope strip, c.1860 - a dog printed twelve times, each frame a still. Spun in the slotted drum they blur into one motion: a moving picture before film. Horner's wheel of life, 1834, made an eye-trick of a toy. #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

A Victorian zoetrope strip from about 1860, showing a dog perched on its hind legs catching a ball in a sequence of still frames.
@bakerstreetholmes.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 4:06 PM

From the cabinet: Babbage's Difference Engine, 1832 — an engine of brass and cog to cast error-free tables, never finished in its maker's lifetime. The one part completed still turns by candlelight. What a century might have done. #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

A period engraving of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine: rows of toothed brass wheels, cogged shafts and a delicate mechanical frame, drawn at a slight three-quarter angle upon a blank page; grayscale reproduction of the public-domain 1864 plate.