1. Machado de Assis’ Rio de Janeiro
A Historical Sketch of the City - from Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil, by James William Wells, 1886
The Bay of Rio - from Our American Neighbors, by Fanny E. Coe, 1899
The City and its Institutions – from The Handbook of Rio de Janeiro, by A.J. Lamoureux, 1887
Photograph: Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, by William Bell, 1882
Photograph: View of Rio de Janeiro, from Ilha das Cobras, 1885, by The Editors of the Rio News
The Fortune Teller, from Brazilian Tales, by Machado de Assis, 1921
Photograph: Machado de Assis, from the Academia Brasileira de Letras, 1909
3. Art and Insanity in the 19th century
Art and Literature in the Mentally Abnormal, from The American Journal of Insanity, by Dr. L. Pierce Clark, 1899
Genius and Insanity, from Genius and Degeneration: a psychological study, by Dr. William Hirsch, 1896
Chapter 1 from Behind the scenes, or, Life in an insane asylum, by Lydia Adeline Jackson Button Smith, 1878
Illustration: Dancing by Lunatics, sketch by W.H. Davenport, 1865
Illustration: Scene in the Hospital for Incurables, sketch by W.S.L. Jewett, 1864
Life, from Brazilian Tales, by Machado de Assis, 1921
Photograph: The Funeral of Machado de Assis, photographer unknown, 1908