Haha
2017

Desert of the Real

Isobel Lord

“The erosive work of streams.”  Elementary physiography. 1910. 

Eartha Kitt

Istanbul, c. 1949

Often or Not, 2017

“The luminous marine snail, Palnaxis viratus, from Hachijo Island, Japan.” The luminescence of biological systems. 1955. 

Nemfrog Matters

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Nemfrog creates new content. Every day I go through digital piles of overlooked books, extinct magazines and unremembered 19th and early 20th century science journals, page after page, cover to cover, in search of images that are too good to leave forgotten and unseen any longer. The great majority of what you see on this blog been discovered and rescued by Nemfrog.

Not just a blog. An archive. Posts on Nemfrog contain links back their source. This lets users dive deeper in the original material, sometimes to understand the context, sometimes to search for other images, sometimes to back up scholarly work. All this sourcing I do takes effort and time. It’s work.

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Midnight sun at Lake Luossajärvi. Kiruna, Lappland, Sweden. Original postcard, tinted. 1940-1959. Swedish National Heritage Board.

“Portrait de femme de la Renaissance” by Lucien Victor Guirand de Scévola, 19th century