Tuesday 22 April 2014 at 17:22
Selections from a beautifully illustrated 15th century version of the “Tra…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/tractatus-de-herbis-ca-1440/
Thursday 17 April 2014 at 16:30
Selection from a set of 30 lithographs by the Russian painter Issachar Ber Ryback, dating mostly from 1917 and published in a book in 1922, depicting scenes of Ryback's home village in Ukraine before it was destroyed in the pogroms following World War I.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/shtetl-my-destroyed-home-a-remembrance-1922/
Wednesday 16 April 2014 at 15:24
For many the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas is inextricably linked to a particular image: a small group of confident men on a tropical beach formally announcing their presence to the dumbfounded Amerindians. Michiel van Groesen explores the origins of this eurocentric iconography and ascribes it's persistence to the editorial strategy of the publisher who invented the initial design a full century after Columbus' encounter took place.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/04/16/1592-coining-columbus/
Tuesday 15 April 2014 at 17:54
An account of the first ever blood transfusion involving a human in England. Six months after he successfully completed a blood transfusion between two dogs, the experimental physician Richard Lower administered 9oz of sheep's blood into the body of Arthur Coga, a Divinity Student from Cambridge.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/arthur-cogas-blood-transfusion-1667/
Thursday 10 April 2014 at 16:07
A short piece of juvenile literature about the hungry Mister Fox and his attempts to acquire dinner for his family - an endeavour which proves successful despite the attempts of the farmer and his wife to intervene - all illustrated in a series of delightful silhouettes.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mister-fox-1870/
Wednesday 9 April 2014 at 18:01
A fairy brings two dolls to life, part of a short lived stop-motion puppet series by animator Howard S. Moss, described as Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden, a surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mary-and-gretel-1917/
Tuesday 8 April 2014 at 17:31
Illustrations from a delightful piece called the Future Dictates of Fashion by W. Cade Gall and published in 1893 which tries to predict the next 100 years of fashion.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fashions-of-the-future-as-imagined-in-1893/
Wednesday 2 April 2014 at 17:32
Conspiracy theories of a secretive power elite seeking global domination have long held a place in the modern imagination. Mike Jay explores the idea’s beginnings in the writings of John Robison, a Scottish scientist who maintained that the French revolution was the work of a covert Masonic cell known as the Illuminati.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/04/02/darkness-over-all-john-robison-and-the-birth-of-the-illuminati-conspiracy/
Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 12:25
DESIGN: Mid-19th century map of New York City including an index to the streets of Ne…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/posters-and-prints/map-of-new-york-city-from-1857/