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Tuesday 31 May 2016 at 21:26
Selection of images illustrating on the idea that one's life can be thought of as divisible into distinct stages.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-steps-of-life/
Tuesday 24 May 2016 at 18:12
An unusual creation from the studio of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, the French photographer known for inventing the hugely popular carte de visite.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-legs-of-the-opera-ca-1862/
Friday 20 May 2016 at 20:14
This somewhat unnerving recording would would have been heard at most Edison phonograph dealers in the early part of the twentieth century.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/i-am-the-edison-phonograph-1906/
Wednesday 18 May 2016 at 15:49
Copying — unoriginal, dull, and derivative by definition — can be creative, contested, and consequential in its effects. Nick Hopwood tracks Haeckel’s embryos, some of the most controversial pictures in the history of science, and explores how copying put them among the most widely seen.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/05/18/copying-pictures-evidencing-evolution/
Monday 16 May 2016 at 15:57
The map that changed the Middle East, outlining a secret agreement between the the UK and France on how they would carve up the Middle East should the Ottoman Empire be defeated in the First World War.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-map-that-changed-the-middle-east-1916/
Wednesday 11 May 2016 at 18:39
Dream diary of the 18th-century Swedish scientist, philosopher, religious teacher and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/emanuel-swedenborgs-journal-of-dreams-and-spiritual-experiences-1918/
Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 18:36
A set of amusing turn-of-the-century hypnotism posters showing hypnotised people up to various strange shenanigans.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hypnotism-posters-ca-1900/
Wednesday 4 May 2016 at 18:38
Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/05/04/frolicsome-engines-the-long-prehistory-of-artificial-intelligence/
Tuesday 3 May 2016 at 17:47
Based on the eponymous legend recounted in the Sanskrit epics, this is the very first full-length Indian feature — the beginning of Bollywood.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/raja-harishchandra-1913/
Wednesday 27 April 2016 at 18:17
Skeletons up to all sorts in this light-hearted satire of James Thomson's poem Spring, from the pen of humorist Henry James Pidding.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/new-elucidations-of-thomsons-seasons-1822/