Thursday 1 December 2016 at 18:27
A sprightly frog circles various come-to-life fountain tableaux, as well as a giant version of itself, an enormous head being drenched by water, and some multicoloured fire thrown in for good measure.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-frog-1908/
Tuesday 29 November 2016 at 18:59
Coming in at almost 400 pages, a wonderfully detailed account of a balloon trip over Chester in 1785, including the first ever real overhead aerial views.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/airopaidia-1786-the-narrative-of-a-balloon-excursion/
Wednesday 23 November 2016 at 19:08
Images from John Bulwer's 17th-century study on the language of the hands and gesture.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/chirologia-or-the-natural-language-of-the-hand-1644/
Tuesday 22 November 2016 at 17:20
On the centenary of Jack London’s death, Benjamin Breen looks at the writer’s last book to be published in his lifetime, The Star Rover — a strange tale about solitary confinement and interstellar reincarnation, which speaks to us of the dreams and struggles of the man himself.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/22/astral-travels-with-jack-london/
Thursday 17 November 2016 at 18:12
The oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director, portraying the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/within-our-gates-1920/
Wednesday 16 November 2016 at 18:28
Long before the current craze for adult colouring books came this 19th-century painting book from one of the finest contributors to the Golden Age of illustration.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/walter-cranes-painting-book-1889/
Tuesday 15 November 2016 at 19:50
Depictions spanning more than 800 years – in chronological order – of that most enigmatic of weather phenomena, the rainbow.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/rainbows-in-art/
Thursday 10 November 2016 at 19:28
Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the birth of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/10/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-computational-imagination/
Thursday 3 November 2016 at 19:40
Collection of alphabets comprised of the human body.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-human-alphabet/
Thursday 27 October 2016 at 17:23
Short film by Georges Méliès, released through his Star Film Company, featuring demons, flames, spectres, and a brilliant array of the film-maker's usual arsenal of tricks.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-infernal-cauldron-1903/