The Book of Accidents.

The Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities of Yale's Beinecke Library Rare Books and Manuscripts offers The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children (1831). Amid the somewhat macabre advisories on unfortunate occurrences to the young ("Tossed by a Bull," "Falling Out of a Coach") are the still (and sadly) relevant ("Playing with Fire-Arms," "A Boy Drowning").

You can read the entire book online here.

About the photo: Illustration from "Playing with Fire-Arms," The Book of Accidents (New Haven, 1831). Rare Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Le Détective.

From Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A look at a November 1928 issue of Le Détective, a Paris investigative newspaper that claims that Chicago is "the capital of crime" and shows Chicago policemen nabbing a culprit.

For their next book event, writers will also appreciate the photographs from The Popular Entertainer and Self-Instructor in Elocution (1898), which provides helpful poses of "hatred," "flight," "accusation," and "defiance."