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iconoclassic:

Franco Matticchio (via Animalarium)

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iconoclassic:

We’ll miss you Maurice (via Maurice Sendak, RIP | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log)

historical-nonfiction:

Wolves were the first animals to be placed on the U.S. Endangered Species Act list, in 1973.

guardian:

The cover of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, which has sold over 17m copies since it was published in 1963 Photograph: HarperCollins/AP

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wnycradiolab:

Blind children studying the hippopotamus.

(Another gem from the American Museum of Natural History Library, dated 1914.)