In the backroom.

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen, Backroom, Rouen, France von Morbid Anatomy
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Photo © Joanna Ebenstein, from The Secret Museum Exhibition,Observatory, 2010. Image may not be reproduced in printed form without express written permission. An exhibition exploring the poetics of hidden, untouched and curious collections from around the world in photographs and artifacts, by Joanna Ebenstein, co-founder of Observatory and creator of Morbid Anatomy.

Overlooked, produced by design studio Pentagram, wanted to “celebrate the gatekeepers” to the subterranean world beneath London’s streets – the street or ‘manhole’ cover. The team took rubbings of various forms of this type of street furniture, from coal hole covers, to the cast iron discs covering access points to sewers, conduits and gas mains. The tome “tells the history of London through street covers, outlining the vital roles that each piece of street furniture had in serving Londoners”.

Other rubbings of streets metal covers can also be found here

nemfrog:

“Sardine eggs: distribution and relative abundance.” April 18-23, 1952. Records and observations from plankton grid studies off Baja California, April 1952. Special scientific report.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

nemfrog:

Eagle couple at home. Bird legend and life. 1908.

I wrote about Jeff Bridges’ Sleeping Tapes forPitchfork’s Overlooked Records of the yearfeature.