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A sample book of gorgeous French silk in various patterns, from around 1900, from the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/french-silk-sample-book
Méliès shows customary boundless imagination in this short film depicting the pleasures and terrors that plague the drunken baron.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baron-munchausens-dream
What if chairs had the ability to shift our state of consciousness, transporting the imagination into distant landscapes and ecstatic experiences, both religious and erotic? In an essay about the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century, Hunter Dukes discovers how simple furniture technologies allowed armchair travelers to explore worlds beyond their own.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/postures-of-transport
17th-century treatise, the first book of its kind, containing a bestiary of linen creations, mythical creatures and architectural abstractions, folded out of the common napkin.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/serviette-sculptures-the-forgotten-art-of-napkin-folding
Beautiful diagrams exploring the nervous system from two pioneers in the field.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/illustrations-of-the-nervous-system-golgi-and-cajal
Compilation of a huge range of shanties from around the world, including music, words, and ethnographic description of their provenance and performance.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea-shanties
The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of life. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too. Jessica Boyall explores the rich vein of illustration running through the logbooks and journals of Nantucket whalers.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling
An artful rogues’ gallery compiled by a mysterious Hungarian photographer during his decade in America.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rogues-a-study-of-characters-samuel-g-szabo
An admiring account of Jean-Baptiste Godin’s factory, social housing, and workers’ co-operative in the French town of Guise.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/twenty-eight-years-of-co-partnership-at-guise
With characteristic skill and wit, Hogarth’s frontispiece for Joshua Kirby’s Method of Perspective shows the pitfalls of getting it wrong.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-hogarth-satire-on-false-perspective