Wednesday 4 June 2014 at 18:20
DESIGN: A print from around 1882 depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Pari…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/posters-and-prints/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000/
Tuesday 3 June 2014 at 15:29
THE WELLCOME LIBRARY - Catherine Draycott, head of Wellcome Images, gives a run down of the Top 10 most downloaded images from the collection of more than 100,000 that the Wellcome Library made available free from restrictions earlier this year.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-wellcome-librarys-top-10-open-images/
Monday 2 June 2014 at 18:36
IMAGE: French cartoon from around 1865 showing a man riding on a bicycle-like flyin…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/apparel/voyage-a-la-lune-t-shirt/
Thursday 29 May 2014 at 17:13
A short and wonderfully illustrated version of the Cinderella tale most probably dating from the early 19th century (no date can be made out in the book itself).
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-adventures-of-cinderella-ca-1810/
Wednesday 28 May 2014 at 16:54
Stassa Edwards explores Charles Darwin's photography collection, which included almost forty portraits of mental patients given to him by the neurologist James Crichton-Browne. The study of these photographs, and the related correspondence between the two men, would prove instrumental in the development of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), Darwin's study on the evolution of emotions.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/05/28/the-naturalist-and-the-neurologist-on-charles-darwin-and-james-crichton-browne/
Tuesday 27 May 2014 at 17:59
A stunning series of letterforms designed in the mid-17th century, writhing forms which hover somewhere between the monstrous and floral
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/an-alphabet-of-organic-type-ca-1650/
Thursday 22 May 2014 at 18:14
An English translation of a collection of twenty short "prose-songs" (as the Foreword declares them) from the French writer Marcel Schwob (1867-1905), a key figure of the late 19th-century French symbolist movement.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mimes-by-marcel-schwob-1901/
Wednesday 21 May 2014 at 19:15
DESIGN:”The duck quaketh… the goose gaggleth”, the animal so…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/mugs-bags-and-more/orbis-pictus-animal-sounds-mug/
Wednesday 21 May 2014 at 18:47
A remarkable series of amateur reels, amounting to more than 6 hours in total, covering the 1939–40 New York World's Fair which took place on a 1,216 acre area of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and which saw over 44 million people in attendance.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/new-york-worlds-fair-1939-40/
Tuesday 20 May 2014 at 16:48
Photograohs of the 1937 Nantucket sea-serpent hoax
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-nantucket-sea-serpent-hoax-1937/