Images

Colorized portrait of John Wilkes Booth, the 19th century American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865, photograph by J.W. Black and John G. Case.

Portrait of American actor, and future assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth around the peak of his acting career, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks, c. 1862. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution...

Portrait of American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, c. 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Canal with a touristic trajineras, photography by Luis Bartolomé Marcos, Xochimilco in Mexico City, 05 November 2013. Flat-bottomed, vibrantly colored tourist boats known as trajineras pass by a chinampa, a man-made agricultural island...

Man preparing the soil to plant, photograph by Emmanuel Eslava, Mexico, 23 September 2015. A man prepares the land of a chinampa for sowing. The chinampa raised farming technique can be identified by the posts that separate the arable land...

Axolotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. An axolotl, which was described by the accompanying Spanish textual gloss as a meal fit for the nobility. Described...

Cintli, ink on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. A depiction of a maize plant, one of the staple crops of the Aztec peoples of Mexico. The image shows the structural details...

Atlalli, ink on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. A farmer in Mexico cultivates irrigated land. Water has a swirling texture while the land is sparsely decorated with wisps...

Huexotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Book 11, folio 144v, Mexico, 1577. A willow tree, known as huexotl in Nahuatl, grows from a body of curling blue water. Simple...

Pella curse tablet, lead scroll, first half of the 4th century BCE. Writing and dedicating a curse tablet (katadesmos) was an act of practical magic in the Greco-Roman world. Curse tablets were fragmental sheets of lead—or, in rare instances...