Figure 3 “Douglass in Cedar Hill Library.” Courtesy of Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, National Park Service More

Figure 1 Helen Keller reads a raised-print book (Perkins Library, 1894). Description: Keller, fourteen years old, holds a large book on her lap with her right hand and reads with her left. Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind Archives More

Figure 6 Cover of the first volume of the Frank Reade Library (1892). From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside More

Figure 1 Georgia Plate, “Slaves and Free Negroes.” Library of Congress More

Figure 4 Prefatory pictures from Daisy , Pussy Meow , and Pussy Black-Face . Original texts housed at New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library, respectively. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Libary More

Figure 1 “Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine More

Figure 2 National Plate, “Proportion of Freemen and Slaves Among American Negroes.” Library of Congress More

Figure 2 An image of the Newark Steam Man, apparently submitted with the patent. From the New York Public Library More

Figure 1 “Black Valley Railroad” broadside (c. 1860). Made available by the New York Public Library. More

Figure 2 Detail of “Map 1.” From John Snow’s ( 1855 ) On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia More

Figure 2 Clarissa Chapman Armstrong, “Titihuta” (Nuku Hiva, 1833). Image courtesy of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library More

Figure 3 Clarissa Chapman Armstrong, “Bartimeus” (Wailuku, Maui, 1847). Image courtesy of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library More

Figure 6 “Booker T. Washington,” one of Meow’s kittens. Image from Chapter XXVIII. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library More

Figure 2 Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The One Arm and One Leg Soldier,” United States, s.n., not before 1865. Source: the American Antiquarian Society. “The One-Arm Soldier,” United States, s.n., circa 1870. Source: the Harvard Medical Library Rare Books More

Figure 1 “Map 1.” John Snow’s ( 1855 ) famous cholera map in On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia More

Figure 7 Carver’s illustration of the communication made by his Dakota guide on a tree. © British Library Board (Add. MS 8950 f169r) More