Tuesday 9 January 2018 at 17:59
Collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores, edited by Edith Wharton, whose profits were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-book-of-the-homeless-1916/
Thursday 4 January 2018 at 16:10
Early recording of the alma mater of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, penned in 1873 in just two hours by Howard Newton Fuller, an 1874 graduate of Rutgers College.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/on-the-banks-of-the-old-raritan-1915/
Tuesday 19 December 2017 at 16:06
Top Row (left to right): Aleister Crowley; René Magritte; Siegfried Sassoon Middle Row (left to right): Alice B. Toklas; Pierre Bonnard; Winston Churchill; M. P. Shiel Bottom Row (left to right): Jean Toomer; P. D. Ouspensky; Anna Wickham; Hans Fallada Pictured above is our top pick of artists and writers whose works will, on 1st […]
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2018/
Tuesday 12 December 2017 at 17:18
This fantastic eye chart — measuring 22 by 28 inches with a positive version on one side and negative on the other — is the work of German optometrist and American Optometric Association member George Mayerle, who was working in San Francisco at end of the nineteenth century, just when optometry was beginning to professionalise. […]
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/george-mayerles-eye-test-chart-ca-1907/
Thursday 7 December 2017 at 18:55
Christine Jones explores the different ways the cacao tree has been depicted through history — from 16th-century codices to 18th-century botanicals — and what this changing iconography reveals about cacao's journey into European culture.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/12/07/pods-pots-and-potions-putting-cacao-to-paper-in-early-modern-europe/
Wednesday 6 December 2017 at 18:39
If this delightful book is anything to go by then taking photos of cats and brandishing them with an amusing caption, was far from being a phenomenon born with the internet.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age/
Tuesday 28 November 2017 at 19:08
Prints from Goya's Los caprichos (The Whims) and Los disparates (The Follies), two series which see him condemning the follies and foibles of civilized society.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-whims-1799-and-the-follies-1815-23-of-francisco-goya/
Wednesday 22 November 2017 at 17:24
Not a lot concerning the artist, erotic publisher, explorer, and general enigma Count de Waldeck can be taken at face value, and this certainly includes his fanciful representations of ancient Mesoamerican culture which — despite the exquisite brilliance of their execution — run wild with anatopistic lions, elephants, and suspicious architecture. Rhys Griffiths looks at the life and work of one of the 19th century's most mysterious and eccentric figures.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/11/22/brief-encounters-with-jean-frederic-maximilien-de-waldeck/
Tuesday 21 November 2017 at 18:42
Selection of Dutch artist Jan Toorop's distinctive works, designs featuring highly stylised figures, embedded in complex curvilinear designs, with his dynamic line showing influence from his Javanese roots.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-salad-oil-style-of-jan-toorop/
Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 18:24
A series of superbly intricate and striking "brain maps", illustrating Dr Alesha Sivartha's unique blend of blend of science, sociology, mysticism and religion, a spiritual teaching which apparently attracted the attention of Mark Twain among others.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/diagrams-from-dr-alesha-sivarthas-book-of-life-1898/