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/
Tuesday 1 March 2016 at 15:51
Perhaps Georges Méliès' most famous film, and the first science fiction film in cinematic history.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/le-voyage-dans-la-lune-1902/
Thursday 25 February 2016 at 16:06
Totalling more than 1000 pages this brilliantly illustrated treatise on zoology, explores ancient and fantastic legends about existing animals, as well as those at the more mythic end of the spectrum, including the Hydra, Lamia, and Mantichora.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/topsells-history-of-four-footed-beasts-and-serpents-1658/
Wednesday 24 February 2016 at 19:38
Ava Kofman explores how the spectre of race, in particular Francis Galton's disturbing theory of eugenics, haunts the early history of fingerprint technology.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/24/the-anthropometric-detective-and-his-racial-clues/