Thursday 4 February 2016 at 14:30
A vision, from 1857, of what London would look like 100 years in the future — including the prediction of vast shopping malls and internet shopping.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/london-a-hundred-years-hence-1857/
Wednesday 3 February 2016 at 17:22
Pages from a friendship book of Anne Wagner, aunt to the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne, who herself has a number of entries in the album, including wonderful mixed-media collages.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834/
Tuesday 2 February 2016 at 17:14
MUSEUM FÜR KUNST UND GEWERBE (MKG) - Antje Schmidt, Head of Digital Cataloguing and MKG Collection Online, and Esther Ruelfs, Head of MKG's Photography and New Media Department, on the functions of sharing images, both historically and in the present.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sharing-photographs/
Thursday 28 January 2016 at 16:37
The great inventor Thomas Edison tells a joke about a healthy liver, recorded on his Edison Blue Amberol cylinder. I guess you had to have been there...
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/thomas-edison-tells-a-joke-about-a-liver-1906/
Wednesday 27 January 2016 at 18:13
Known for his debauched lifestyle, his flirtations with criminality, and the sheer volume of his literary output, the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene was a fascinating figure. Ed Simon explores the literary merits and bohemian traits of the man who penned the earliest known, and far from flattering, reference to Shakespeare as a playwright.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/01/27/robert-greene-the-first-bohemian/
Tuesday 26 January 2016 at 18:46
An Austrian painter's beautiful presentation of various atmospheric conditions including will-o'-the-wisp, a moonbow, and the Northern Lights.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/phenomena-over-and-under-the-earth-1878/
Thursday 21 January 2016 at 15:59
Silent film exploring the Studio for Portrait Masks, the Paris workshop of American artist Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939), which provided galvanised copper masks for soldiers whose faces were partly destroyed fighting in the First World War.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/plastic-reconstruction-of-the-face-1918/
Wednesday 20 January 2016 at 16:01
Featuring artwork by Lucien Pissarro, this is a beautiful art nouveau edition of an essay on gardens by the Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/francis-bacon-on-gardens-1902/
Tuesday 19 January 2016 at 18:02
A unique set of composite photographs by Lewis Hine depicting Southern cotton mill workers. Each image was created by purposively rephotographing several workers upon the same photographic plate.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/lewis-hines-composite-photographs-of-child-labourers-1913/
Thursday 14 January 2016 at 17:23
A small booklet detailing the narrative of Bridget Durgan (1843-1867), an Irish domestic servant who was hanged for murder of her master in the 1860s New Jersey.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/life-crimes-and-confession-of-bridget-durgan-1867/