The Public Domain Review

The Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772-78), by Johann Zoffany (1733-1810); Royal Collection, Windsor.
(annotated version here)



Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels (ca.1651), by David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690); Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.



Roman Ruins and Sculpture (ca.1755), by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1692–1765); Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.



Allegory of Sight and Smell (latter 16thC.), by Jan Brueghel (1568–1625); Prado Museum, Madrid



Art Room (1636), by Frans Francken II (1581–1642); Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna



The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest (1628), by Willem van Haecht (1593–1637); Rubenshuis, Antwerp

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Operation Doorstep	The Spirit Photographs of William Hope	The Maps of Piri Reis	Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
Art in Art	Huexotzinco Codex	Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum

In 1903 Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism. The invention brought him international notability after he presented it at international expositions in Dresden, Frankfurt and Paris in 1909–1911. Spectators in Dresden could watch the arrival of the camera-equipped carrier pigeons, and the photos were immediately developed and turned into postcards which could be purchased.

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Operation Doorstep	The Spirit Photographs of William Hope	The Maps of Piri Reis	Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
Art in Art	Huexotzinco Codex	Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum

Piri Reis was a 16th century Ottoman Admiral famous for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), a book which contains detailed information on navigation as well as extremely accurate charts describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1513 he produced his first world map, based on some 20 older maps and charts which he had collected, including charts personally designed by Christopher Columbus which his uncle Kemal Reis obtained in 1501 after capturing seven Spanish ships off the coast of Valencia in Spain with several of Columbus’ crewmen on board. See more here.


Alexandria


Ancona


Brindisi


Sardinia


Granada


Marseilles


Marmaris


Venice

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Operation Doorstep	The Spirit Photographs of William Hope	The Maps of Piri Reis	Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
Art in Art	Huexotzinco Codex	Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum

These photographs of ‘spirits’ are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the Museum’s curators. They were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope (1863-1933). Born in 1863 in Crewe, Hope started his working life as a carpenter. In about 1905 he became interested in spirit photography after capturing the supposed image of a ghost while photographing a friend. He went on to found the Crewe Circle – a group of six spirit photographers led by Hope. When Archbishop Thomas Colley joined the group they began to publicise their work. Following World War I support for the Crewe Circle grew as the grieving relatives of those lost to the war sought a means of contacting their loved ones. By 1922 Hope had moved to London where he became a professional medium. The work of the Crew Circle was investigated on various occasions. The most famous of these took place in 1922, when the Society for Psychical Research sent Harry Price to investigate the group. Price collected evidence that Hope was substituting glass plates bearing ghostly images in order to produce his spirit photographs. Later the same year Price published his findings, exposing Hope as a fraudster. However, many of Hope’s most ardent supporters spoke out on his behalf, the most famous being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hope continued to practice, despite his exposure. He died in London on 7 March 1933.

(Text and photos from the National Media Museum entry at Flickr)

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Operation Doorstep	The Spirit Photographs of William Hope	The Maps of Piri Reis	Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
Art in Art	Huexotzinco Codex	Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum

Operation Doorstep was a Civil Defense test carried out in conjunction with the much larger March 17, 1953, 16-kiloton ANNIE test conducted at the Nevada Test Site, part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. In the smaller Operation Doorstep test, blast and thermal effects were evaluated on mannequins, automobiles, and wooden frame houses.

(Images from Wikimedia Commons)

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Operation Doorstep	The Spirit Photographs of William Hope	The Maps of Piri Reis	Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
Art in Art	Huexotzinco Codex	Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum

Considered the archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie but can also be seen as an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. Directed by Louis J. Gasnier.

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CLIPS	SHORT	FULL LENGTH SILENT	FULL LENGTH TALKIE
Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min	Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) 12min	Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min	Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min
The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min	Frankenstein (1910) 13min	The General (1926) 1hr19min	Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec	The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min	Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min	Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min
		Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min

Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club in New York: “You Can’t Be Mine and Somebody Else’s Too”, “Monday Morning”, “What Do You Know About Love?”, and “I Had To Do It”

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Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)	Hungarian Rag - Pietro Deiro (1913)	As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (1925)	Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar & His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)
Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)	Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)	Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8	Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)
La Paloma (1903)	Orson Welles Show (1941)	Tokyo Rose (1944)	Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)

Tokyo Rose was a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The intent of these broadcasts was to disrupt the morale of Allied forces listening to the broadcast. American servicemen in the Pacific often listened to the propaganda broadcasts to get a sense, by reading between the lines, of the effect of their military actions. Farther from the action, stories circulated that Tokyo Rose could be unnervingly accurate, naming units and even individual servicemen. The name “Tokyo Rose” is most strongly associated with Iva Toguri D’Aquino. D’Aquino broadcast as “Orphan Ann” during the 15-20 minute D.J. segment of the 75-minute program The Zero Hour on Radio Tokyo (NHK). The program consisted of propaganda-tinged skits and slanted news reports as well as popular American music. After the war the US born D’Aquino was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. She was given a pardon from President Ford in 1977. Read more about the life and trial of Iva Toguri D’Aquino here.

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Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)	Hungarian Rag - Pietro Deiro (1913)	As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (1925)	Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar & His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)
Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)	Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)	Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8	Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)
La Paloma (1903)	Orson Welles Show (1941)	Tokyo Rose (1944)	Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)

Zélie de Lussan (21 December 1861 – 18 December 1949) was an American opera singer of French descent. This is her singing the oft recorded classic La Paloma, originally composed around 1863 by Spanish composer Sebastián Iradier.

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Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)	Hungarian Rag - Pietro Deiro (1913)	As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (1925)	Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar & His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)
Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)	Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)	Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8	Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)
La Paloma (1903)	Orson Welles Show (1941)	Tokyo Rose (1944)	Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)

1. Sredni Vashtar, An Irishman and a Jew
2. The Interlopers, Song of Solomon, I’m a Fool
3. There’s a Full Moon Tonight (excerpt)
4. If in Years to Come
5. Wilbur Brown, Habitat Brooklyn (excerpt)
6. The Happy Prince
7. The Apple Tree
8. My Little Boy

Welles’ first almanac/variety radio show, as sponsored by Illinois-based cosmetic maker Lady Esther, and featuring members of his Mercury Theatre. The show sought to provide something new to radio listeners. Unfortunately, the program format proved unpopular with the target audience of Lady Esther (ie middle class women), and the show eventually settled into a “story of the week” format. Originally scheduled for 26 weeks, the show ended prematurely when Welles left on his ill-fated It’s All True trip to Brazil.

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Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)	Hungarian Rag - Pietro Deiro (1913)	As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (1925)	Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar & His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)
Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)	Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)	Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8	Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)
La Paloma (1903)	Orson Welles Show (1941)	Tokyo Rose (1944)	Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)