The Archive
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The archive is organized into seven categories — each tied to a distinct institutional source and a distinct visual register. Pick a category to browse its full contents.
Posters & Advertising
Belle Époque, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco posters; coffee-brand advertising plates from the great print shops of Brussels, Paris, and Milan.
Café Scenes & Coffeehouses
Interiors and street life — Ottoman coffeehouses, Belle Époque Parisian cafés, Viennese kaffeehäuser, Cairo merchant scenes.
Botanical Plates
19th-century scientific illustration of Coffea arabica and related species, from Wellcome, Gallica, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Coffee Drinking
Domestic and salon genre painting — the act of drinking coffee, from rococo Paris to Impressionist Montmartre.
Plantation & Origin
Coffee as global agricultural object — Brazilian fazenda canvases, Caribbean lithographs, Indonesian and African plantation views.
Equipment & Tools
Grinders, ibriks, percolators, roasters, and the early espresso machines in painting and engraving.
Other Coffee Visuals
Cross-category material — ephemera, trade cards, magazine illustration, and the cabaret programs of coffee-adjacent Paris.
By era
Rococo (c. 1750–1789) · Romantic and Orientalist (c. 1830–1880) · Belle Époque and Art Nouveau (1885–1914) · Edwardian (1901–1914) · Art Deco (1920–1929)
By source institution
Wellcome Collection (London) · Google Cultural Institute · Museu Paulista da USP (São Paulo) · Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) · Cleveland Museum of Art · Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · Library of Congress