Wednesday 16 July 2014 at 12:19
A set of Japanese prints depicting famous Western inventors and scholars - including Audubon, Carlyle, Watt, and Arkright - beset by various difficulties.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/japanese-prints-of-western-inventors-artists-and-scholars-1873/
Thursday 10 July 2014 at 18:20
Filmed in 1900 and released 1903, this film directed by Clément Maurice, shows the English performer Little Tich performing his famous "Big Boot Dance".
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/little-tich-and-his-big-boot-dance-1900/
Thursday 10 July 2014 at 16:26
A science fiction novel by the incredibly wealthy businessman and member of the prominent Astor family, John Jacob Astor IV, in which he offers an imagining of life in the year 2000.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-journey-in-other-worlds-a-romance-of-the-future-1894/
Wednesday 9 July 2014 at 17:01
Leaving her close-knit artistic community on the Isle of Wight at the age of sixty to join her husband on the coffee plantations of Ceylon was not an easy move for the celebrated British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Eugenia Herbert explores the story behind the move and how the new environment was to impact Cameron's art.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/09/julia-margaret-cameron-in-ceylon-idylls-of-freshwater-vs-idylls-of-rathoongodde/
Tuesday 8 July 2014 at 16:58
A selection of stunning mask designs from the hand of Dutch engraver Frans Huys, rooted in the "grotesque" style and composed of shapes inspired from creaturely and vegetative forms (forming a style that would later become known as "auricular").
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/flemish-mask-designs-in-the-grotesque-style-1555/
Thursday 3 July 2014 at 17:39
A facsimile edition from 1867 of the very first rhyming dictionary, produced by Peter Levins in 1570.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/manipulus-vocabulorum-a-rhyming-dictionary-from-the-16th-century/
Wednesday 2 July 2014 at 17:15
The truly gigantic monument planned by the Bilboan architect Alberto Palacio designed for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in honour of Christopher Columbus.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/palacios-plan-for-colossal-monument-to-columbus-1890/
Tuesday 1 July 2014 at 12:22
U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE - Michael J. North, Head of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts in NLM's History of Medicine Division, takes a look at one of the most important books in the history of veterinary medicine - a seminal 17th-century work on the care of horses.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/markhams-masterpiece/
Thursday 26 June 2014 at 14:39
The only surviving fragment of Winsor McCay's now lost The Centaurs, produced in 1921 by Rialto Productions.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-centaurs-a-fragment-1921/
Wednesday 25 June 2014 at 17:07
Simon Werrett explores how artists through the ages have responded to the challenge of representing firework displays, from the highly politicised and allegorical renderings of the early modern period to Whistler's impressionistic Nocturne in Black and Gold.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/06/25/picturing-pyrotechnics/