Thursday 10 September 2015 at 16:09
A film produced by Western Electric, a haunting glimpse into the construction of the Twin Towers in New York and their early use.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/footage-of-the-twin-towers-being-built-1976/
Wednesday 9 September 2015 at 14:34
A selection on Augustus Sherman's photographs of immgrants passing through Ellis Island on their way to new lives in the United States.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/portraits-of-ellis-island-immigrants/
Tuesday 8 September 2015 at 03:00
A story of a group of crows attacked by a farmer, beautifully ilustrated by Jemima Blackburn.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/caw-caw-or-the-chronicle-of-crows-ca-1848/
Thursday 3 September 2015 at 17:41
An album showing various clothing and ceremonial costumes of the Ottoman Empire, including an array of very impressive hatwear.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/19th-century-album-of-ottoman-fashion/
Wednesday 2 September 2015 at 16:49
Abigail Walthausen explores the life and work of Arthur Heming, the Canadian painter who -- having been diagnosed with colourblindness as a child -- worked for most of his life in a distinctive pallete of black, yellow, and white.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/02/tribal-life-in-old-lyme-canadas-colorblind-chronicler-and-his-connecticut-exile/
Tuesday 1 September 2015 at 14:35
US NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE - Miriam Posner on what led a 1920s Brooklyn surgeon to remove the veins from a day-old infant, mount them on a board, and film them being pumped with air.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/jacob-sarnoff-and-the-strange-world-of-anatomical-filmmaking/
Thursday 27 August 2015 at 18:50
Maria Monk's revelations of her time at the Hôtel-Dieu convent in Montreal, describing nuns forced to engage in sexual acts with priests and being locked in the cellar as a punishment for disobeying.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk-1836/
Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 18:14
A medieval pattern book for scribes composed of two parts and dating from around 1510 and hailing from Swabia, Germany - including lots of wonderful calligraphy.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/16th-century-pattern-book-for-scribes/
Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 13:49
The Public Domain Review was founded in 2011 by Adam Green and Jonathan Gray, and is a project of Open Knowledge. It is based wherever the Editor-in-Chief may lay his hat/MacBook, though this is mainly London, UK.
Editorial Team
Although mostly the product of the Editor-in-Chief’s many hours of lonely toil, there’s a key group of volunteers instrumental to the project: Lauren (who casts a careful eye over most ofâ�¦
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/about/masthead/
Tuesday 25 August 2015 at 17:57
A song naming some of the great silent era actors of the time, the lyrics describing a party where all the actors mingle and dance together, with familiar names such as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks counted among the celebrities.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/at-the-moving-picture-ball-1920/