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QuickTime video introduction to website (in order of appearance, left to right):

Berenice Abbott
Henry Street, Looking West from Market Street, November 29, 1935
Silver gelatin print, New York, 1935
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

A[ndrew] J[oseph] Russell
Mormon Family, Great Salt Lake City. 1 Man, 4 Wives
[New York?, 1868—78]
Stereoscopic view, albumen print
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection, Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views

[Adam and Eve]
Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Ecclesiae Gallicanae, cum Calendario [Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Use of the Gallican Church, with Calendar]
Franco-Flemish, late 15th century
NYPL, Spencer Collection

["Miner with his pick"]
U.S.S.R. in Construction. A monthly illustrated magazine published in Russian, English, German and French
Moscow: The State Publishing Union of R.S.F.S.R., 1931
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

Hugh Ferriss
The Metropolis of Tomorrow
New York: Ives Washburn, 1929
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Art and Architecture Department

[Angel locking up the beast]
Apocalypses
England, ca. 1280
NYPL, Spencer Collection

[Portrait of Sir Thomas More]
Thomas More
Utopia
London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1903
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Theodore de Bry after John White
The Town of Secota, from America, Part 1
Colored engraving, Frankfurt, 1590
NYPL, Rare Books Division

[Children before and after Soviet reforms]
U.S.S.R. in Construction. A monthly illustrated magazine published in Russian, English, German and French
Moscow: The State Publishing Union of R.S.F.S.R., 1934
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

 

Introduction to website (in order of appearance, left to right):

[Adam and Eve]
Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Ecclesiae Gallicanae, cum Calendario [Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Use of the Gallican Church, with Calendar]
Franco-Flemish, late 15th century
NYPL, Spencer Collection

Berenice Abbott
Henry Street, Looking West from Market Street, November 29, 1935
Silver gelatin print, New York, 1935
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Theodore de Bry after John White
The Town of Secota, from America, Part 1
Colored engraving, Frankfurt, 1590
NYPL, Rare Books Division

[Angel locking up the beast]
Apocalypses
England, ca. 1280
NYPL, Spencer Collection

 

Sources: Ancient, Biblical, and Medieval Traditions

Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Ecclesiae Gallicanae, cum Calendario [Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Use of the Gallican Church, with Calendar]
Franco-Flemish, late 15th century
NYPL, Spencer Collection

 

Other Worlds: Utopian Imagination from More to the Enlightenment

Adriaen Collaert after Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet)
Christophorus Columbus Ligur terroribus Oceani Superatis . . .[Christopher Columbus, Victor over the Terrors of the Ocean]
Engraving from Americae Retectio [Discovery of America] (Antwerp: Philippe Galle, ca. 1585)
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection

 

Utopia in History: From the Revolutionary Age Through the Nineteenth Century

Grandville (pseud. of Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard)
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations . . . et autres choses [Another World: Transformations, Visions, Incarnations . . . and Other Things]
Paris: H. Fournier, 1844
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection

 

Dreams and Nightmares: Utopias and Dystopias in the Twentieth Century

U.S.S.R. in Construction. A monthly illustrated magazine published in Russian, English, German and French
Moscow: The State Publishing Union of R.S.F.S.R., 1934
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

 

Metaworlds: Utopian Visions of the Internet and the Metaphysics of Virtual Life splash page:

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Villemard
"L'avenue de l'Opéra" [Avenue of the Opera House]
From Visions de l'an 2000 (1910)
Chromolithograph
BNF, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
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