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(Botanical: Maurándia semperflorens) — Pancrace Bessa (French, 1772–1846), artist — 1836
Botanical illustration
 Woodblock Print — Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, Japanese, 1797–1858
Japanese woodblock prints
 Storm at Sea — Thorvald Simeon Niss — 1901
Storms at sea
 Views of the whole Mir space station — NASA / JSC — 1996-09-24
Vintage NASA photographs
 The lunar surface — NASA / JSC — 2022-12-05
The Moon
 Map of Palestine — Nicolaes van Geelkercken — 1621
Old maps
 Alfons Mucha. Art Nouveau from Prague — anonymous — before 1984-03-13
Art nouveau posters
 Anatomical drawing — Anonymous, French, 18th century — 18th century
Anatomical drawings
 Mountain Landscape — Attributed to Joos de Momper, II (Flemish, 1564–1635) — 1600/25
Mountain landscapes
 Portrait of a Woman — Richard Cosway — 1790s
Portraits of women
 Swedish birds — Jan Brandes — 1790-02-13
Bird illustrations
 Flowers in a Vase — Dutch — c. 1750
Flower still lifes
 Torso of Apollo — c. 100–200 CE
Ancient sculpture
 Young Woman in an Interior — Jacobus Vrel — c. 1660
Dutch Golden Age painting
 Onychocrinus ramulosus Lyon & Casseday
Fossils & paleontology
 View of the harbor of Menton with moored sailing ships — Henry Pauw van Wieldrecht — c. 1886 - c. 1896
Harbors & ships
 October Morning — Frank A. Bicknell, born Augusta, ME 1866-died Essex, CT 1943 — ca. 1910
Impressionist paintings
 Cat — 664–30 B.C.
Cats in art
 K2-138 6 Planets Artwork (Artist's Illustration) — NASA / JPL — 2019-01-07
Astronomical illustrations
 A street scene at Vieuxfort, St. Lucia — Algernon Edward Aspinall — c. 1900 - c. 1906
Early photography
 Allies Day, May 1917 — Childe Hassam — 1917
World War I
 Normandy Invasion on Omaha Beach — U.S. Army Signal Corps — 1944
World War II
 "Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange — Lange, Dorothea — 1936
The Great Depression
 Orville Wright flying at Fort Meyer [i.e. Myer], Va. — 1909-01-01
Early aviation
 Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand — Gardner, Alexander — 1862
The American Civil War
 Nuclear explosion mushroom cloud rises and disperses — Wilding Picture Productions, Inc. — 1955
The atomic age
 Historiated Initial (O) Excised from an Antiphonary: The Donor, Gorus Fucci, Kneels before Christ — c. 1300–1350
Medieval art
 Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Sphinx, Pyramids of Gezeeh — Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885), artist; F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, London, published by; David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864), artist — 1846
Ancient Egypt
 Saint George — German 15th Century — c. 1460/1470
Medieval design assets