This Porcineograph

I am not sure if this is charming or horrific.

The Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., Boston - 1876 - Library of Congress

The Poison Fiend

That is one whacked out Death, and I especially like the pitchforks at the bottom. Lydia Sherman, not someone you would have wanted to marry.

Philadelphia - 1873 - The National Library of Medicine

risk

A jump looks just like a fall.

Niagara Falls

1873

from Niagara Falls Public Library

Preparing for Ascent

They'd captured the beast, but the next step was murky.

Tuillerie Gardens, Paris

1878

The Library of Congress

Plate I

War and information, all of civilization.

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865). Part I. Volume II

1876

from the Villanova University Digital Library

The Lady's Hand

She's huge, as is the promise she makes on our behalf. As a nation, we fail to live up to that promise pretty much daily. But I can't help but feel proud when I see her, even piecemeal, even barely made. For all the racism, all the colonization, all the broken treaties and broken people, there is a flame to be cherished and fed. Not with the blood of another country's civilians. Not with the bones of the working class. No, that flame is the burning hope of millions of people, the hope of a better future, of happy families, of being able to square your shoulders and look anyone in the eye and say, "I'll work with you and you work with me, and together we'll get this done." Maybe those in Washington should take a field trip up to NYC and stand at Lady Liberty's feet. Take a good look at those broken chains, guys, and think of the labor it took to raise that torch. The Chinatown bus is only $35 - I'll buy the first ticket.

Philadelphia, PA

1876

from Philly History

Transit of Venus

"I don't quite see what we shall do it for! It's really only jumping off the world and back again."

"Surely! For example, one might go to the moon."

"And when one got there? What would you find?"

"We should see—Oh! consider the new knowledge."

"Is there air there?"

"There may be."

"It's a fine idea," I said, "but it strikes me as a large order all the same. The moon! I'd much rather try some smaller things first."

Greenwich Park, London, England

1874

from the National Maritime Museum

(dialog from The First Men in the Moon by HG Wells)

T U V

I love the wildness of these drawings. What's up with that crazy dog barking at Tom?

The Absurd ABC by Walter Crane

1874

from Project Gutenberg

La Vision de Fausto

Shut up, it's art. Fancy, fancy art.

Vision of Faust

1878, artist Luis Ricardo Falero

from Secret Lexicon

not so artful dodger

I couldn't make up anything better than the actual backstory: 

George Davey was sentenced to one month's hard labour in Wandsworth Prison in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. He was ten years old.

from National Archives UK

The Boss Lager

Goats? Check! Strongman? Check! Uncle Sam? Check! Beer? Check, check, and check! There is nothing about this to not love.

Advertising poster for Jacob Wirth Restaurant
1877
from Boston Public Library

Patient in a hot head pillow

Were I a religious man, I would get down on my knees and thank my god every time I get sick that I don't live in the 1800s.

Albumen print
1861-1872
from NY Public Library