Thursday 25 August 2016 at 18:51
A wonderfully no-nonsense guide to the culinary art of the sandwich.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-up-to-date-sandwich-book-400-ways-to-make-a-sandwich-1909/
Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 17:54
An unusual image captured by Frederick William Bond, photographer at the Zoological Society of London. Contents included a couple of handkerchiefs, a buttoned glove, a length of rope, a plain handkerchief, and a four-inch nail.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/contents-of-an-ostrichs-stomach-ca-1930/
Wednesday 17 August 2016 at 16:58
Joshua Ehrlich on an obscure text found on the shelves of a Bengali library and the light it sheds on the idea of the public in 19th-century Calcutta.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/17/the-calcutta-pococurante-society-public-and-private-in-indias-age-of-reform/
Tuesday 16 August 2016 at 19:01
Propaganda cartoons from the pen of Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/kobayashi-kiyochikas-cartoons-of-the-russo-japanese-war-1904-5/
Thursday 11 August 2016 at 18:48
The Death of Cock Robin, also known as The Death and Burial of Cock Robin is a somewhat macabre English nursery rhyme describing the murder and the funeral of a robin.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-death-and-burial-of-cock-robin/
Wednesday 10 August 2016 at 18:23
A mother brings her baby to Professor Bakem's newly invented baby incubator, which claims to give one year's of growth in just one hour, but an accident leads to a distressing surprise.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-over-incubated-baby-1901/
Tuesday 9 August 2016 at 18:57
Collection of detailed crops from Hieronymous Bosch's most ambitious work, The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/details-from-boschs-garden-ca-1500/
Thursday 4 August 2016 at 17:53
Journal of the Scottish botanist James McCrae recounting his 1825 voyage to Hawaii with the cousin of the poet Lord Byron.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/with-lord-byron-at-the-sandwich-islands-in-1825/
Wednesday 3 August 2016 at 17:18
The second essay in a two-part series in which Lily Ford explores how balloon flight transformed our ideas of landscape. Here she looks at the phenomenon of the panorama, and how its attempts at creating the immersive view were inextricably linked to the new visual experience opened up by the advent of ballooning.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/03/unlimiting-the-bounds-the-panorama-and-the-balloon-view/
Tuesday 2 August 2016 at 19:10
The varied tradition of alchemy has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some favourites.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-surreal-art-of-alchemical-diagrams/