Thursday 24 March 2016 at 15:28
Diagrams showing the postures of the mouth when demonstrating proper elocution, from a 19th-century book dedicated to elocution.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-postures-of-the-mouth-1846/
Wednesday 23 March 2016 at 16:38
With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata took the popular images of the Greek gods and re-drew them as greedy, sex-obsessed, power-mad despots. Nicholas Jeeves explores the story behind the work and its reception in the English speaking world.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/
Thursday 17 March 2016 at 16:44
One of the first of the immensely popular 18th-century "it-narratives", the tale of coin and the human intrigue to which it finds itself bearing witness.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/chrysal-or-the-adventures-of-a-guinea-1760/
Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 17:55
A Pan Am promotional film marketing transatlantic air travel at the dawn of the jet age, including their pioneering Flight 1000, with gourmet meals and spacious powder rooms.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/six-and-a-half-magic-hours-1958/
Tuesday 15 March 2016 at 20:47
Colour analysis charts of various objects, such as Assyrian tiles, Persian rugs, a case containing an Egyptian mummy, and even a teacup and saucer — looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/color-analysis-charts-by-emily-noyes-vanderpoel-1902/
Thursday 10 March 2016 at 17:11
A charming alphabet book, dating from around 1800, published by the Glasgow-based publishers J. Lumsden and Son.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-merry-cobler-and-his-musical-alphabet-ca-1800/
Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 17:27
Championed in his day by friend and fellow mystic W. B. Yeats, today the artist William T. Horton and his stark minimalistic creations are largely forgotten. Jon Crabb on a unique and unusual talent.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/09/the-strange-case-of-mr-william-t-horton/
Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 16:48
Photographs of injured American Civil War soldiers created by Reed B. Bontecou, a New York surgeon who played a key role in documenting the very many casualties of the Civil War battlefields.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/reed-bontecous-portraits-of-wounded-soldiers-1865/
Thursday 3 March 2016 at 16:34
Best known for his work collecting of folk and fairy tales, this is the Scottish writer Andrew Lang's treatise on all things bookish.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/books-and-bookmen-1886/
Wednesday 2 March 2016 at 18:30
A compendium of anthropomorphic landscapes, in which natural vistas are given the form of human heads.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-hidden-faces-anthropomorphic-landscapes/