The American librarian C.A. Cutter looks forward from 1883 to "the library of the future" in 1983.
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The American librarian C.A. Cutter looks forward from 1883 to "the library of the future" in 1983.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-library-of-the-future-a-vision-of-1983-from-1883
Rebecca Rego Barry on David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and death), and creator of one of the first botanical gardens in the United States, home to thousands of species which he used for his pioneering medical research.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/flower-power-hamiltons-doctor-and-the-healing-power-of-nature
How the Soane family tomb provided inspiration for London's iconic red telephone box.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-tomb-and-the-telephone-box-soane-s-mausoleum-1816
Robert Fludd's alphabet of correspondences, where each letter and number is paired with an object which echoes its shape.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/robert-fludd-s-memory-tricks-1617
Perhaps the closest thing the 19th century ever got to Google Street View, a book to guide the journeyer along the major roads of England and Wales.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/paterson-s-roads-1826-edition
Angus Trumble on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company's curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — that "most beautiful of God's creatures" which found its way into their poems, their art, and even, for a brief while, their homes.
A superb series of photographs found in exercise manual by American author Harrie Irving Hancock.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/physical-training-for-business-men-1917
Hogarth's pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than characters.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/characters-and-caricaturas-by-william-hogarth-1743
Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2019 enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein and Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/class-of-2019
Born of the temperance movement, this poem dramatises the ills of drinking schnapps, through one man’s bloody battle with thousands of intoxicated demons.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schneider-von-groot-s-christmas-dream-1885