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Tournée du Chat Noir, Steinlen, 1896
Tournée du Chat Noir1896
The Early Bird, McKnight Kauffer, 1918
The Early Bird1918
paper that changed the worldscan to read21 stories
Earthrise, William Anders, Apollo 8, 1968
Earthrise1968
Diagram of the causes of mortality, Florence Nightingale, 1858
Diagram of the causes of mortality1858
Common Sense, Thomas Paine, 1776
Common Sense1776
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1891
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue1891

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  1. Poster: a large black cat with yellow eyes sits upright on a red band, a red ornamental halo behind its head. The lettering reads Prochainement, Tournée du Chat Noir avec Rodolphe Salis.PosterThe black cat of MontmartreSteinlen's 1896 poster for the Chat Noir cabaret gave Montmartre a black cat that still looks out from souvenir shops along the Seine.1896Read the story
  2. Tall yellow poster: a flock of black, white and grey birds, drawn in sharp geometric facets, flies diagonally across the top. Below are the words Soaring to Success! Daily Herald, the Early Bird.PosterA flock of birds for a newspaper's first morningE. McKnight Kauffer's flight of birds announced the relaunch of the Daily Herald in 1919 and became the design he was known for.1918Read the story
  3. Photograph: a half-lit blue and white Earth hangs in black space above the grey, cratered horizon of the Moon.PhotographThe day the Earth roseOn 24 December 1968, orbiting the Moon on Apollo 8, Bill Anders photographed the Earth rising over the lunar horizon.1968Read the story
  4. Two round diagrams made of wedges, one wedge for each month: the larger, on the right, covers April 1854 to March 1855, the smaller, on the left, April 1855 to March 1856. Large pale blue wedges, for deaths from preventable diseases, dwarf the red ones for wounds and the dark ones for other causes. A dotted line joins the two, and a note in script below explains how to read them.DiagramWhat really killed the soldiersFlorence Nightingale's 1858 diagram showed that in the Crimean War far more British soldiers died of preventable disease than of their wounds.1858Read the story
  5. Title page reading Common Sense; addressed to the Inhabitants of America, followed by a list of four subjects, a verse by Thomson and the imprint Philadelphia; printed and sold by R. Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXVI.PamphletPlain words for independencePublished anonymously in Philadelphia in January 1776, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made the case for American independence.1776Read the story
  6. Poster: the dancer La Goulue kicks up white petticoats in the middle of a dance floor, ringed by black silhouettes of the crowd, while the grey figure of Valentin le Désossé in a top hat fills the foreground. Red lettering repeats Moulin Rouge.PosterThe poster that made Lautrec's nameToulouse-Lautrec's first poster, made for the Moulin Rouge in 1891, turned a dance-hall advertisement into the work that made his name known.1891Read the story
  7. A single printed sheet of Latin text in black-letter type, set in two columns of short numbered paragraphs under a two-line heading that begins Amore et studio elucidande veritatis. At the foot is the printed date M.D.Xvij., with 1517 written below it in red ink.BroadsideTheses for a debate that never happenedLuther wrote 95 Latin theses on indulgences for a debate in Wittenberg in 1517. Printers spread them; this Nuremberg sheet is one of very few left.1517Read the story
  8. Painting: inside a huge curved habitat, glass roof panels arch overhead and the land curves up into the distance. Below lie a lake, green hills, pine trees, houses and a plaza where people walk.PaintingA town inside a wheel in spaceDon Davis's 1975 painting for NASA Ames shows the inside of a ring-shaped space settlement designed for 10,000 people.1975Read the story
  9. Poster in red, black and grey on cream: circles and squares joined into a large diagonal cross, with the words Staatliches Bauhaus Ausstellung, Weimar, 1923, and a red band reading Eröffnung verschoben auf 15. Aug, 30. Sept.PosterCircles and squares for the Bauhaus's first showA student's poster of circles and squares announced the first big Bauhaus exhibition in 1923, hung in 120 German railway stations.1923Read the story
  10. Engraved map of the world in two round hemispheres, the Americas on the left and Europe, Africa and Asia on the right, with place names in Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script. A text panel sits above each hemisphere, California is drawn as an island, and three small diagrams of the globe line the bottom.MapThe whole world, printed in IstanbulThe world in two hemispheres, from Kâtip Çelebi's Cihannüma, printed in Istanbul in 1732 by İbrahim Müteferrika, founder of the first Turkish press.1732Read the story
  11. Photograph: a dark field crossed by faint bands of scattered sunlight in pink, green and brown. In the brightest band, on the right, sits one tiny pale speck: the Earth.PhotographHome, from six billion kilometres awayOn 14 February 1990 Voyager 1 looked back from about 6 billion km and caught the Earth as a speck smaller than a pixel, at Carl Sagan's urging.1990Read the story
  12. Square sheet crowded with black lettering in many sizes and directions, crossed by large red letters reading DADA. Among the words: Kleine Dada Soirée, Programma, Haagsche K.K., 1923, Thé van Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters and Huszár.Poster and programmeA programme that would not sit stillRed and black letters running every way: the poster and programme for the Dada tour of the Netherlands in early 1923.1922Read the story
  13. Woodblock print: a huge blue wave, its crest breaking into fingers of white foam, curls over three long, narrow boats whose rowers crouch low, while the small snow-capped cone of Mount Fuji sits in the distance under a pale sky. A title cartouche and the signature are at the top left.Woodblock printThe wave that went around the worldHokusai's Great Wave was a woodblock print of the early 1830s, made by the thousand. It is now the most famous Japanese print in the world.1831Read the story
  14. A single printed sheet headed In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, with the full text below, signed John Hancock, President, attested by Charles Thomson, Secretary, and printed at the foot: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap.BroadsidePrinted overnight: the first DeclarationOn the night of 4 July 1776 John Dunlap printed the Declaration of Independence as a single sheet. Of perhaps 200 copies, 26 are known today.1776Read the story
  15. Photograph: the whole Earth, fully lit, against black space. Africa and Arabia are at the top, Madagascar to the right, white swirls of cloud below and the Antarctic ice cap at the bottom.PhotographThe whole Earth, lit from end to endOn 7 December 1972 the Apollo 17 crew photographed the fully lit Earth on the way to the Moon, from Africa down to the Antarctic ice.1972Read the story
  16. Broadside printed in black on green paper. Under the heading Gran Calavera Eléctrica, a huge skeleton bends over a crowd of skulls and a seated skeleton at a cemetery gate, while an electric tram packed with skeletons rolls past. Below are four columns of verse and, in the corner, a skull wearing a cap.BroadsideDeath takes the electric tramPosada's Gran Calavera Eléctrica mocked Mexico City's new electric trams for the Day of the Dead. Broadsides like it sold for a centavo.1900Read the story
  17. Street map of Soho with Oxford Street along the top. Small black bars along the streets mark deaths, most of them in a few streets near the centre, and a grey patch marks the Craven estate. The title reads Plan shewing the ascertained deaths from cholera in part of the parishes of St James, Westminster, and St Anne, Soho, during the summer and autumn of 1854.MapCounting the dead, street by streetThe 1855 map of cholera deaths in Soho, made for a parish inquiry into the outbreak that John Snow had traced to the Broad Street pump.1855Read the story
  18. Black-and-white photograph of a plaque: two circles with the Earth's western and eastern hemispheres, then the words Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A. D. We came in peace for all mankind, and the signatures of Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Richard Nixon.PlaqueA note left on the MoonThe steel plaque Apollo 11 left on the Moon in July 1969: two hemispheres, four signatures and "We came in peace for all mankind".1969Read the story
  19. Latin title page: Sidereus Nuncius, by Galileo Galilei, patrician of Florence and public mathematician at Padua, telling of observations through a spyglass of the Moon, the fixed stars, the Milky Way and four planets around Jupiter, named the Medicea Sidera. Below, a woodcut emblem, the date M DC X and the line Prostat Francof. in Paltheniano.BookThe little book that opened the skyIn 1610 Galileo published what his telescope showed: a rough Moon, countless stars and four moons of Jupiter. This is the Frankfurt printing.1610Read the story
  20. Poster: against a black ground a red-haired dancer whirls a huge veil of pale yellow and orange silk, one leg kicked up behind her. Orange lettering reads Folies-Bergère at the top and La Loïe Fuller at the bottom.PosterA poster for a dance made of lightJules Chéret's 1893 poster of Loïe Fuller, the American dancer who swirled silk under coloured electric light at the Folies-Bergère.1893Read the story
  21. Map: the round near side of the Moon in patches of grey, pink, red, blue, yellow and green, each a rock unit of a different age, with dark plains such as Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis and Mare Crisium named.MapReading the Moon's history in its faceThe 1971 USGS geologic map of the Moon's near side sorted its plains, craters and mountains by age, drawn from Lunar Orbiter photographs.1971Read the story
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