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title: Christmas Festive Bonanza Digest
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/22/christmas-festive-bonanza-digest/
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To celebrate the festive season we have put together, just for you our beloved readers, a little Christmas digest including all our festive content from this year and last. Enjoy! Diary Days from Christmas Past With December 25th fast approaching we have put together a little collection of entries for Christmas Day from an eclectic mix of different diaries spanning five centuries, from 1599 to 1918. Amid famed diarists such as the wife-beating Samuel Pepys, the distinctly non-festive John Adams, and the rhapsodic Thoreau, there are a sprinkling of daily jottings from relative unknowns – many speaking apart from loved ones, at war, sea or in foreign climes.Read More » A Pictorial History of Santa Claus Contrary to what many believe, Santa Claus as we know him today – sleigh riding, gift-giving, rotund and white bearded with his distinctive red suit trimmed with white fur – was not the creation of the Coca Cola Company. We’ve put together a little pictorial guide showing his evolvement through the ages. Read More » Scrooge, or, Marley&#8217;s Ghost (1901) Scrooge, or, Marley&#8217;s Ghost, directed by Walter R. Booth, is the oldest known film adaptation of Charles Dickens&#8217; 1843 novel A Christmas Carol &#8211; [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6619
title: Engravings from Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825)
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/27/engravings-from-history-of-the-earth-and-animated-nature-1825/

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&#8220;Beautiful and appropriate&#8221; engravings for Oliver Golsmith&#8217;s History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825). Oliver Goldsmith was (1730-1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur&#8217;d Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He is also thought to have written the classic children&#8217;s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase &#8220;goody two-shoes&#8221;. Along with Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Johnson he was a founding member of &#8220;The Club&#8221; in 1764, a London dining club who would meet weekly bringing together the leading lights of the city&#8217;s artist and literary scene. (All images taken from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825) housed at the Biodiversity Heritage Library, contributed by the University of California Libraries. Also viewable in book-reader format at the Internet Archive. Hat-tip to Pinterest user Donato Ricci). Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via [...]


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title: Frank C. Stanley singing Auld Lang Syne (1910)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/28/frank-c-stanley-singing-auld-lang-syne-1910/
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Frank C. Stanley performing Auld Lang Syne, the poem written by the Scotsman Robert Burns which is traditionally sung to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight. The song&#8217;s Scots title may be translated into English literally as &#8220;old long since&#8221;, or more idiomatically, &#8220;long long ago&#8221;, &#8220;days gone by&#8221; or &#8220;old times&#8221;. Consequently &#8220;For auld lang syne&#8221;, as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be loosely translated as &#8220;for (the sake of) old times&#8221;. The lyrics of the poem were themselves heavily based on pre-existing verses. Robert Burns sent a copy of his song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, &#8220;The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man.&#8221; Some of the lyrics were indeed &#8220;collected&#8221; rather than composed by the poet; the ballad &#8220;Old Long Syne&#8221; printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns&#8217; later poem, and is almost certainly derived from the same &#8220;old song&#8221;. It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of [...]


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title: The First New Year (1885)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/31/the-first-new-year-1885/
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The First New Year, by George Warwick; 1885; C. T. Bainbridge&#8217;s sons, New York. A short little poem meditating on the inevitable end of all things and the power of new beginnings. Little is known about the author George Warwick although he appears to also be the author of this poem on the theme of Christmas in a similar pamphlet series kept by the Library of Congress. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the Library of Congress. Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription!


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title: Decayed Daguerreotypes
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/08/decayed-daguerreotypes/
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A selection of images from the Library of Congress found via the always excellent Ptak Science Books blog. The daguerreotype, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1837, was the first commercially successful photographic process and was popular throughout the mid-19th century. Daguerreotype portraits were made by the model posing (often with head fixed in place with a clamp to keep it still the few minutes required) before an exposed light-sensitive silvered copper plate, which was then developed by mercury fumes and fixed with salts. This fixing however was far from permanent &#8211; like the people they captured the images too were subject to change and decay. They were extremely sensitive to scratches, dust, hair, etc, and particularly the rubbing of the glass cover if the glue holding it in place deteriorated. As well as rubbing, the glass itself can also deteriorate and bubbles of solvent explode upon the image. The daguerreotypes below are from the studio of Matthew Brady, one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of &#8220;father of photojournalism&#8221;. The Library of Congress received the majority of the [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6644
title: Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/09/simple-songs-virginia-woolf-and-music/
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Last year saw the works of Virginia Woolf enter the public domain in many countries around the world. To celebrate Emma Sutton looks at Woolf&#8217;s short story &#8216;A Simple Melody&#8217; and the influence which music had upon the writer who once wrote that music was &#8216;nearest to truth&#8217;. As Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries amply record, music was a central part of her social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna throwing down her music in a rage; a button popping off the plump Clive Bell’s waistcoat during the slow movement of a piano sonata; an elderly man crashing loudly but astonishingly unhurt down the stairs at Covent Garden. The social conventions, artifice and pretensions governing these performances intrigue her and allow her to sharpen her wit, but music wasn’t only an occasion for slapstick humour or social satire. It played a central part in the political vision of Woolf’s writing, shaping her understanding and representations of feminism and sexuality, pacifism and cosmopolitanism, social class and anti-Semitism. And it [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6757
title: The Nine Lives of a Cat (1860)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/10/the-nine-lives-of-a-cat-1860/
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The Nine Lives of a Cat &#8211; a Tale of Wonder, by Charles Bennett; 1860; Griffith and Farran, London. Beautifully illustrated (though perhaps not so well rhymed!) tale of the cat with nine lives. From the preface: This tale of wonder is told for children; with which view, it has been carefully designed and very nicely printed. For some time past, it has arrived at the dignity of a popular Nursery Tale in the Author&#8217;s family ; and it is hoped it will merit the same good fortune elsewhere. It will be worth while explaining, that the circle in each page is made to represent some object in connection with the story ; and, that as some of them have proved rather puzzling, to Juvenile admirers has been left the task of &#8221; finding them out.&#8221; The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the California Digital Library. Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription!


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title: Making a Living (1914)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/11/making-a-living-1914/
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Making a Living (1914) marked Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s first ever film appearance. In the film he plays a lady-charming swindler, Edgar English, who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops. Chaplin strongly disliked the picture, but one review picked him out as &#8220;a comedian of the first water.&#8221; Although his character wears a large moustache, top hat, and carries a cane, it was not until his next film, Kid Auto Races at Venice, that Chaplin would appear as his famous Tramp character with which he would thereon be identified. The music we hear over the film (added afterwards) is by Jelly Roll Morton&#8217;s Red Hot Peppers. Download from Internet Archive Note this film is in the public domain in the US, but may not be in other jurisdictions. Please check its status in your jurisdiction before re-using. Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription!


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title: Music Hall Performer Billy Williams
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/14/music-hall-performer-billy-williams/
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Richard Isaac Banks (1878–1915), who changed his name to Billy Williams after leaving his birthplace of Australia, was one of the most recorded popular entertainers of his time. Born in Melbourne, Williams tried a number of jobs before embarking on an entertainment career which led him to come to England in 1899. He became a popular entertainer in the music halls singing what were known as chorus-songs, and also appeared in pantomime. The year 1912 seemed to be the zenith of Williams&#8217; career – he appeared in the first Royal Command Performance of that year and achieved glowing reviews in the national press. Sadly this fame was not to last as Williams became ill in late 1914 and died in Hove near Brighton in March 1915, the proximate cause being complications after an operation, but rumoured to be connected with &#8220;previous social excesses.&#8221; (Wikipedia) MP3 Download Internet Archive Link Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription!


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6813
title: The Vessels of Hermes – an Alchemical Album (ca.1700)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/15/the-vessels-of-hermes-an-alchemical-album-ca-1700/
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The contents of Box 14 from the Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, a huge collection of esoteric works amassed by Manly Palmer Hall, a Canadian-born author and mystic, perhaps most famous for his The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). Most of the material in the collection was acquired from Sotheby&#8217;s auctioneers on a trip he made in the 1930s to England and France &#8211; bought very cheaply due to the economic conditions of the time. The material in Hall&#8217;s collection dates from 1500 to 1825, and includes works from the likes of Jakob Böhme, Sigismond Bacstrom, Alessandro Cagliostro, George Ripley and Michael Maier. The creator of these particular watercolours featured below is unknown. A typewritten note in the back, in French, translates as follows: ALCHEMICAL ALBUM &#8211; The Vessels of Hermes – quarto atlas containing five beautiful colour plates very artistically executed and with explanatory caption. Vol. half vellum. The plates of this collection are the synthetic description of the great work. The first one represents the egg of Hermogenes and the three characters who hold it are salt, sulphur and mercury. The second is the king’s bath made with the blood of the innocents. The third [...]


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title: Othello Sketches by Stanislavski (1930)
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/17/sketches-by-konstantin-stanislavski-for-his-production-of-othello-1930/

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17th January 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian theatre director whose theories on acting revolutionised the art. His techniques revolved around getting actors to draw believable emotions to their performances. The method that was originally created and used by Stanislavski from 1911 to 1916 was based on the concept of emotional memory for which an actor focuses internally to portray a character&#8217;s emotions onstage. Later, between 1934–1938, this technique evolved to a method of physical actions in which emotions are produced through the use of actions. In his earlier acting days, increasingly interested in &#8220;living the part,&#8221; Stanislavski experimented with the ability to maintain a characterization in real life, disguising himself as a tramp or drunk and visiting the railway station, or disguising himself as a fortune-telling gypsy. He extended the experiment to the rest of the cast of a short comedy in which he performed in 1883, and as late as 1900 he amused holiday-makers in Yalta by taking a walk each morning &#8220;in character&#8221;. His theories are explicated in a series of writings including An Actor Prepares, An Actor&#8217;s Work on a Role, and his autobiography, My Life in Art. (Wikipedia) [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6856
title: Illustrations from The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/18/illustrations-from-the-six-voyages-of-john-baptista-tavernier-1678/

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Illustrations from (to give its full title) The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670 giving an account of the state of those countries : illustrated with divers sculptures ; together with a new relation of the present Grand Seignor&#8217;s seraglio, by the same author / made English by J.P. &#8211; a remarkable account of travel through 17th century Asia. Tavernier (1605-1689) was a French diamond merchant, traveller and pioneer of diamond trade with India, who covered by his own account, 180,000 miles (290,000 km) over the course of forty years and six voyages. Though he is best known for the discovery and sale of the 118-carat (24 g) blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668, (it was stolen in 1792 and re-emerged in London as The Hope Diamond), his writings show that he was a keen observer of his time as well as a remarkable cultural anthropologist. (Wikipedia) See the English translation of Tavernier&#8217;s book, from which these images comes, in our Text collection post. You can also read a nice post on Tavernier&#8217;s book [...]


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title: The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)
uri: The-Six-Voyages-of-John-Baptista-Tavernier-(1678)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/18/the-six-voyages-of-john-baptista-tavernier-1678/
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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, translated by John Phillips; R.L. and M.P., London. To give it its full title &#8211; The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670 giving an account of the state of those countries : illustrated with divers sculptures ; together with a new relation of the present Grand Seignor&#8217;s seraglio, by the same author / made English by J.P. &#8211; is a remarkable account of travel through 17th century Asia. Tavernier (1605-1689) was a French diamond merchant, traveller and pioneer of diamond trade with India, who covered by his own account, 180,000 miles (290,000 km) over the course of forty years and six voyages. Though he is best known for the discovery and sale of the 118-carat (24 g) blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668, (it was stolen in 1792 and re-emerged in London as The Hope Diamond), his writings show that he was a keen observer of his time as well as a remarkable cultural anthropologist. (Wikipedia) The exquisite illustrations from Tavernier&#8217;s book can be seen [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6896
title: Design for Dreaming (1956)
uri: Design-for-Dreaming-(1956)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/21/design-for-dreaming-1956/
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Over the top 1950s &#8220;Populuxe&#8221; advertisement for General Motors, set at their 1956 Motors Motorama. A woman falls asleep and dreams of a glorious future of perfect products, including a variety of shiny futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire&#8217;s fully automated &#8220;Kitchen of the Future.&#8221; The star of the story is played by dancer and choreographer Tad Tadlock. The film has over the years become a popular symbol of 50s consumerist culture and was featured extensively in the BBC documentary series Pandora&#8217;s Box by Adam Curtis. It also appears in its entirety with an amusing &#8220;commentary&#8221; as a short feature in a fifth-season episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Some footage was also used in the music video for Peter Gabriel&#8217;s 1987 single &#8220;In Your Eyes&#8221;, Rush&#8217;s 1989 music video for &#8220;Superconductor&#8221;, a 1989 commercial for the Nintendo Game Boy game Super Mario Land, and a 1994 commercial for Power Macintosh. Part of the film, with dialogue, is played during the opening titles for The Hills Have Eyes. Some snippets (without dialogue) are played in the video watched by Michael Douglas during his physical in The Game and in the opening titles for The Stepford Wives. (Wikipedia) The film is downloadable [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6910
title: Pictorial Atlas to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (1892)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/22/pictorial-atlas-to-homers-iliad-and-odyssey-1892/
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Pictorial Atlas to Homer&#8217;s Iliad and Odyssey, Thirty-six plates, containing 225 illustrations from works of ancient art, with descriptive text, and an epitome of the contents of each book, for the use of schools and students of literature and art, by R. Engelmann and W.C.F. Anderson; 1892; H. Grevel, London. This Pictorial Atlas is a collection of over 225 illustrations depicting all the major representations of Homer&#8217;s Iliad and Odyssey as can be found in classical antiquity. They are arranged in order of each of the stories, which are in turn told in summary chapter by chapter, with accompanying description and commentary on each of the illustrations. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the Ontario College of Art And Design. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


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title: A Fashionable Melange of English Words (1887)
uri: A-Fashionable-Melange-of-English-Words-(1887)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/23/a-fashionable-melange-of-english-words-1887/
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A Japanese woodcut by Kamekichi Tsunajima titled &#8220;Ryūkō eigo zukushi&#8221;, or &#8220;A Fashionable Melange of English Words&#8221;. The print shows images of animals, activities and objects each with their Japanese and English names. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) some spelling mistakes have given rise to some interesting new activities such as &#8220;Refreshiug&#8221; and &#8220;Cuting Rice&#8221;, and the &#8220;Gaot&#8221;, &#8220;Hoise&#8221; and &#8220;Tea Po&#8221;. The introduction of activities (including the very Zen-like &#8220;Looking Moon&#8221;) give an interesting take on the often more object-orientated Western equivalents. Also worth noting the interesting additions of &#8220;Cross Child&#8221; rather than simply &#8220;Child&#8221; , and &#8220;Blank Book&#8221; rather than &#8220;Book&#8221;. (This image has been &#8220;restored&#8221; by Wikimedia user trialanderrors and is housed at Wikimedia Commons. The original can be found at the Library of Congress). SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


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title: The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/24/the-erotic-dreams-of-emanuel-swedenborg/
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During the time of his &#8216;spiritual awakening&#8217; in 1744 the scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg kept a dream diary. Richard Lines looks at how, among the heavenly visions, there were also erotic dreams, the significance of which has been long overlooked. Among the many works of the eighteenth-century Swedish scientist, philosopher, religious teacher and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) his private Drömbok (variously translated into English as Journal of Dreams or Dream Diary) has attracted and continues to attract special attention. Unlike the works he published in his lifetime, or intended to publish, which were all written in Latin, the Journal of Dreams was, in the words of a present-day Swedish Swedenborg scholar, written in ‘rather crude but expressive Swedish’ (Jonsson, 16). It has been described as a ‘difficult and obscure notebook’ (Jonsson, 130) which ‘reflects a profound psychical crisis’ (Jonsson, 150). The Journal covers a period from July 1743 until October 1744, a time when Swedenborg was going through a transition from life as a scientist and mining engineer to one as a ‘revelator’ and seer. As he was to put it himself: I for my part… had never expected to come into that state in which I am now; [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6986
title: Adelina Patti singing “The Last Rose of Summer” (1905)
uri: Adelina-Patti-singing-The-Last-Rose-of-Summer-(1905)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/28/adelina-patti-singing-the-last-rose-of-summer-1905/
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A recording from 1905 of one of the 19th century&#8217;s most famous opera singers Adelina Patti singing &#8220;The Last Rose of Summer&#8220;, a song based on the poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore. Although the sound quality isn&#8217;t great and her voice is past its prime (she was 62 yrs old), through the dust and scratches we can hear glimpses of why Giuseppe Verdi, writing in 1877, described her as being perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived. Patti&#8217;s piano accompanist for this recording and others she made at the time, Landon Ronald, recalls his experience working with her: &#8220;When the little (gramophone) trumpet gave forth the beautiful tones, she went into ecstasies! She threw kisses into the trumpet and kept on saying, &#8216;Ah! Mon Dieu! Maintenant je comprends pourquoi je suis Patti! Oh oui! Quelle voix! Quelle artiste! Je comprends tout!&#8217; [Ah! My Lord! Now I understand why I am Patti! Oh yes! What a voice! What an artist! I understand everything!] Her enthusiasm was so naïve and genuine that the fact that she was praising her own voice seemed to us all to be right and proper.&#8221; (Wikipedia) MP3 Download Internet Archive Link SIGN UP TO THE [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6998
title: A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909)
uri: A-Dictionary-of-Victorian-Slang-(1909)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/29/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909/
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Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase, by J. Redding Ware; 1909; Routledge, London. Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase is complied and written by James Redding Ware, the pseudonym of Andrew Forrester the British writer who created one of the first female detectives in literary history in his book The Female Detective (1863). In this posthumously published volume Forrester turns his attention to the world of Victorian slang, in particular that found in the city of London. From the Preface: HERE is a numerically weak collection of instances of &#8216;Passing English&#8217;. It may be hoped that there are errors on every page, and also that no entry is &#8216;quite too dull&#8217;. Thousands of words and phrases in existence in 1870 have drifted away, or changed their forms, or been absorbed, while as many have been added or are being added. &#8216;Passing English&#8217; ripples from countless sources, forming a river of new language which has its tide and its ebb, while its current brings down new ideas and carries away those that have dribbled out of fashion. Not only is &#8216;Passing English&#8217; general ; it [...]


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title: Skeleton Leaves (1873)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/05/skeleton-leaves-1873/
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A series of elaborate &#8220;skeleton leaf&#8221; arrangements, from the photographic studios of John P. Soule which stood on Washington Street in Boston from 1861 to 1882. As well as producing many pictures of Boston&#8217;s buildings, notable events (such as the 1869 National Peace Jubilee and the great fire of 1872), carte-de-visite portraits etc., Soule also produced these so called &#8220;Skeleton Leaves&#8221;. As well as comprising wreath shapes and crosses the leaves also served as elaborate frames for the portraits of individuals which were sometimes embedded within them. The process of drying out leaves in such a way was very popular at the time, with whole books being published that were devoted to the subject such as Phantom Flowers, a treatise on the art of producing skeleton leaves (1864). (All images from the Library of Congress). SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


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title: The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/06/the-curious-world-of-isaac-disraeli/
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Marvin Spevack introduces the Curiosities of Literature, the epic cornucopia of essays on all things literary by Isaac D&#8217;Israeli: a scholar, man of letters and father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. What may be most curious about Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature is the title itself. For D’Israeli curiosity was a blend of the original denotation, “investigation &#8230; characterized by special care,” and that of his own day, “inquisitive, desirous of information,” as in his reference to the grammar in Johnson’s Dictionary as being “curiously illustrated by the notes and researches of modern editors” and his regarding his friend Francis Douce’s library as being “curious”. Suitably for D’Israeli, the man of letters, literature meant even more than just “literature generally, the humanities”; it meant knowledge in the widest sense, without formality and restriction. A collection of essays, Curiosities of Literature &#8211; as the full title of the first edition of 1791 makes explicit, Consisting of Anecdotes, Characters, Sketches, and Observations, Literary, Critical, and Historical &#8211; has been rightly called “that library in miniature”. It is a library which evolved through a vigorously evolutionary process – a veritable sea change of selection, addition, omission, and revision – its fourteenth and [...]


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title: Croatian Tales of Long Ago (1922)
uri: Croatian-Tales-of-Long-Ago-(1922)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/07/croatian-tales-of-long-ago-1922/
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Croatian Tales of Long Ago, by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, translated by F. S. Copeland; 1922; Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. A seminal collection of short stories by the acclaimed children&#8217;s author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić originally published in 1916 in Zagreb by the Matica Hrvatska publishing house. The collection is considered her masterpiece and it features a series of newly written fairy tales heavily inspired by motifs taken from ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia. Due to this way of combining original fantasy plots with folk mythology, Brlić-Mažuranić&#8217;s writing style has been compared by literary critics to Hans Christian Andersen and J. R. R. Tolkien. Indeed, the 1922 English translation by F.S. Copeland was published in London by George Allen &#038; Unwin, the same company which would go onto publish Tolkien&#8217;s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy. The illustrations in this 1922 edition are by Croatian artist Vladimir Kirin. (Wikipedia) The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the Boston Public Library. Hat-tip to Pinterest user Pensive Blackbird. DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7085
title: Horse Drawn Fire Engines (1896)
uri: Horse-Drawn-Fire-Engines-(1896)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/08/horse-drawn-fire-engines-1896/
content:
Four horse drawn fire engines roar up a snow-covered Newark, New Jersey, street while spectators watch from the sidelines. Until the mid-19th century most fire engines were maneuvered by men, but the introduction of horse-drawn fire engines considerably improved the response time to incidents. The first self-propelled steam engine was built in New York in 1841. It was the target of sabotage by firefighters and its use was discontinued, and motorized fire engines did not become commonplace until the early 20th century. (Wikipedia) Download from Internet Archive Note this film is in the public domain in the US, but may not be in other jurisdictions. Please check its status in your jurisdiction before re-using. DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7099
title: Jehan Cousin’s Livre de Pourtraiture (1608)
uri: Jehan-Cousin-s-Livre-de-Pourtraiture-(1608)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/11/jehan-cousins-livre-de-pourtraiture-1608/
content:
Selected images from a 1608 edition of Livre de Pourtraiture by Jehan Cousin the Younger (ca. 1522–1595), son of of the famous painter and sculptor Jehan Cousin the Elder (ca. 1490-ca. 1560) who was often compared to his contemporary, Albrecht Dürer. Just before his death, Jehan the Elder published his noted work Livre de Perspective in 1560 in which he noted that his son would soon be publishing a companion entitled, Livre de Pourtraiture. While there have been some reports that an edition of Livre de Pourtraiture was fist printed in 1571 and again in 1589, no copies appear to exist. Instead, the most likely first printing of the work was 1595 in Paris by David Leclerc, with woodcuts engraved by Jean Leclerc, just after Jehan Cousin the Younger&#8217;s death. The book is one of the most famous on the subject of artistic anatomy and was printed again and again into the late 17th century. (All images from the U.S. National Library of Medicine). DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7114
title: Emblems Ancient and Modern (1699)
uri: Emblems-Ancient-and-Modern-(1699)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/13/emblems-ancient-and-modern-1699/
content:
Devises et Emblemes Anciennes &#038; Modernes, Tirees de Plus Celebres Auteurs; 1699; Kroniger &#038; Göbel, Augspurg. Beautiful 17th century book showing various emblems with mottos described in German, Latin, French and Italian, and the emblems themselves described only in German. Some highlights include a floating stone, a lion being suspended over an empty throne, another lion gazing into a mirror and a flying ball. Here are a few choice examples, cut out and &#8220;cleaned&#8221;. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7095
title: The Heart in Art
uri: The-Heart-in-Art
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/14/the-heart-in-art/
content:
A small selection of hearts through the history of art. (Images from a variety of places, see link below each image to see the source). and to finish off, a map of love, a land called Tendre: DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7183
title: Slovak Folk Songs (1928/30)
uri: Slovak-Folk-Songs-(1928-30)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/18/slovak-folk-songs-192830/
content:
Adele Keshelak sings three pairs of traditional Rusyn folk songs from Slovakia, recorded in New York on January 30th 1930: Track 1 &#8211; &#8220;Rusadelina Fialocka&#8221; (&#8220;Forget me Not&#8221;) and &#8220;D&#8217;Irava Mi Stricha Na Stajni&#8221; (&#8220;My Pet Horse Was Stolen&#8221;); Track 2 &#8211; &#8220;Na Dolini, V Hustom L&#8217; Is&#8217; I Na Dubi&#8221; (&#8220;In The Valley, In The Forest&#8221;) and &#8220;D&#8217;Ivki, D&#8217;Ivki Hej D&#8217;Ivki Na Selo&#8221; (&#8220;Girls, Girls, to Maidenlane&#8221;); Track 3 &#8211; &#8220;Uz Singl&#8217;ujut Zakryvajut Kasarnu&#8221; (&#8220;They&#8217;re Fitting Out The Barracks&#8221;) and &#8220;Na Oktobra, Na Persoho&#8221; (&#8220;Joining The Army&#8221;). The accordion soloist is Pawel Ondricka. Michael Tokarick provides one of the introductory speaking voices on Track 3; below are two folk songs form his miner&#8217;s band. These two Slovak folk dances were recorded in Camden, New Jersey on May 11th 1928. &#8220;Minersville Polka&#8221; is named after Tokarick&#8217;s hometown in the coal mining region of Pennsylvania. &#8220;Zelenim Hajecku&#8221; (&#8220;In The Green Fields&#8221;) is a traditional folk tune. MP3 Download: Adele Keshelak / Michael Tokarick Internet Archive link: Adele Keshelak / Michael Tokarick DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7195
title: Endless Amusement (1820)
uri: Endless-Amusement-(1820)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/19/endless-amusement-1820/
content:
Endless Amusement, a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science, including acoustics, arithmetic, chemistry, electricity, hydraulics, hydrostatics, magnetism, mechanics, optics, wonders of the air pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &#038;c., &#038;c., &#038;c.; 1820; Thorp and Burch, and Thomas Boys, London. As it states on the title page, a collection of &#8220;nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science, including acoustics, arithmetic, chemistry, electricity, hydraulics, hydrostatics, magnetism, mechanics, optics, wonders of the air pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &#038;c., &#038;c., &#038;c. : to which is added, A complete system of pyrotechny, or, The art of making fireworks: the whole so clearly explained, as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity&#8221;. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the California Digital Library. DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7237
title: Various Forms of Architecture (1636)
uri: Various-Forms-of-Architecture-(1636)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/22/various-forms-of-architecture-1636/
content:
A selection of illustrations from Variae Architecturae Formae, a series of architectural studies after the works of Joanne Vredemanni Vriesio, also known in Dutch as Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–c.1607). De Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Studying Vitruvius and Sebastiano Serlio, (translated by his teacher Pieter Coecke van Aelst), he became an internationally known specialist in perspective and, as well as books on architecture, perspective and garden design, he became the city architect and fortification engineer for the city of Antwerp. The etchers of the images in the book are given as Jan and Lucas Van Doetecum, two brothers from Hollstein.(Wikipedia) (All images taken from Variae Architecturae Formae (1636) housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by The Getty. Hat-tip to John Ptak and his wonderful Pinterest boards where we first learnt of the book). DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=6702
title: Double Exposures
uri: Double-Exposures
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/26/double-exposures/
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A compilation of double exposures, an accidental phenomenon no longer possible with digital cameras. As well as the unintentional displayed here (though the first picture is debatable, and the saxophonist too), it was a common practise to use double exposures to create what became known as &#8220;Spirit Photographs&#8221;. One of the most prolific of the spirit photographers was a man named William Hope, whose startling images you can see in our post &#8220;The Spirit Photographs of William Hope&#8221;. (Images taken from a variety of sources, including Library of Congress and Flickr Commons. See link below each picture for more info). DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7501
title: George Méliès’ Temptation of St. Anthony (1898)
uri: George-Méliès-Temptation-of-St-Anthony-(1898)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/08/george-melies-temptation-of-st-anthony-1898/
content:
George Méliès&#8217; short retelling of the temptation of Saint Anthony (La tentation de Saint-Antoine), with the temptations taking the form of the unexpected and persistent appearance of various scantily clad women. Although not as technically epic as his earlier masterpieces it nonetheless marks an advance in terms of subject matter, being one of the earliest films to tackle an explicitly religious theme. In this respect, as Film Journal comments, &#8220;Méliès proves himself the ancestor of Cecil B. DeMille and Franco Zeffirelli, whose own religious epics offer a similar blend of the solemn and the kitschy&#8221;. The supernatural temptations reportedly faced by Saint Anthony during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert, have been an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature. Colin Dickey&#8217;s excellent article for The Public Domain Review explores how Gustave Flaubert spent nearly thirty years working on a surreal and largely ‘unreadable’ retelling of the story and how it was only in the dark and compelling illustrations of Odilon Redon, made years later, that Flaubert’s strangest work finally came to life. Read it here: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/07/the-redemption-of-saint-anthony/ Download from Internet Archive &#8211; Part of the wonderful and comprehensive George Méliès Collection. DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7543
title: On the Writing of the Insane (1870)
uri: On-the-Writing-of-the-Insane-(1870)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/12/on-the-writing-of-the-insane-1870/
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On the Writing of the Insane, with illustrations, by G. Mackenzie Bacon, M.D.; 1870; John Churchill and Sons, London. A book of observations on the peculiarities of writing styles as shown by asylum patients. G. Mackenzie Bacon was a medical superintendant at Cambridgshire County Asylum (now Fulbourn Hospital) located near Cambridge, England. As well as the fascinating images, the book also gives a series of transcribed excerpts. See also our images post &#8220;The Diagrammatic Writings of an Asylum Patient&#8221; which shows two of the most striking images from the book. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine via the Medical Heritage Library. Hat-tip to Pinterest user Marisela Norte. DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7529
title: The Diagrammatic Writings of an Asylum Patient (1870)
uri: The-Diagrammatic-Writings-of-an-Asylum-Patient-(1870)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/12/the-diagrammatic-writings-of-an-asylum-patient-1870/
content:
These two images are from the book On the Writing of the Insane (1870) by G. Mackenzie Bacon, medical superintendant at an asylum (now Fulbourn Hospital) located near Cambridge, England. The pictures are the product of a &#8220;respectable artisan of considerable intelligence [who] was sent to the Cambridgeshire Asylum after being nearly three years in a melancholy mood&#8221;. Bacon describes how the unnamed patient, for the two years he was committed, spent &#8220;much of his time writing — sometimes verses, at others long letters of the most rambling character, and in drawing extraordinary diagrams.&#8221; The two images shown here were drawn on both sides of the same small half sheet of paper, and the patient, &#8220;as though anxious, in the exuberance of his fancy, to make the fullest use of his opportunities, [...] filled up every morsel of the surface — to the very edge — not leaving an atom of margin.&#8221; Bacon goes on to explain that the man, after leaving the asylum, went &#8220;to work at his trade, and, by steady application, succeeded in arriving at a certain degree of prosperity, but some two or three years later he began to write very strangely again, and had some [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7554
title: Medical Imagery of the 15th Century
uri: Medical-Imagery-of-the-15th-Century
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/13/medical-imagery-of-the-15th-century/
content:
The following images are all taken from Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen Medizinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts (1907) by Karl Sudhoff &#8211; a book on the topic of medical illustrations in manuscripts and early printed books (primarily) of the 15th century. Included amongst the depictions are a few of the Zodiac Man (or homo signorum), a common figure in late medieval depictions of the body who had every part of his body linked with an astrological sign. See the book to learn from where each image has been sourced by Sudhoff, and if you speak German, to learn more about them. (The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the University of Toronto). DONATE NOW TO SAVE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW! With our initial funding now come to an end, we need your support to help us continue our mission – to promote the public domain as an indispensable public good, and to curate and showcase the most interesting out-of-copyright works on the web. SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7572
title: Phrenology Diagrams from Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)
uri: Phrenology-Diagrams-from-Vaught-s-Practical-Character-Reader-(1902)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/19/phrenology-diagrams-from-vaughts-practical-character-reader-1902/

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Illustrations from Vaught&#8217;s Practical Character Reader, a book on phrenology by L. A. Vaught published in 1902. As he confidently states in his Preface: The purpose of this book is to acquaint all with the elements of human nature and enable them to read these elements in all men, women and children in all countries. At least fifty thousand careful examinations have been made to prove the truthfulness of the nature and location of these elements. More than a million observations have been made to confirm the examinations. Therefore, it is given the world to be depended upon. Taken in its entirety it is absolutely reliable. Its facts can be completely demonstrated by all who will take the unprejudiced pains to do so. It is ready for use. It is practical. Use it. The theory that one can ascertain a person&#8217;s character by the shape of their features is disturbing to say the least. You can see the book in its entirety, including many more diagrams, over in our post in the Texts collection. (All images taken from the book housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the Library of Congress. Hat-tip to Pinterest user Lisa M. Finnegan.) HELP TO [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7597
title: Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)
uri: Vaught-s-Practical-Character-Reader-(1902)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/19/vaughts-practical-character-reader-1902/
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Vaught&#8217;s Practical Character Reader, by L. A. Vaught; 1902; L. A. Vaught, Chicago. A book on phrenology by L. A. Vaught published in 1902, jam-packed with strange theory and a whole host of strange illustrations. As he confidently states in his Preface: The purpose of this book is to acquaint all with the elements of human nature and enable them to read these elements in all men, women and children in all countries. At least fifty thousand careful examinations have been made to prove the truthfulness of the nature and location of these elements. More than a million observations have been made to confirm the examinations. Therefore, it is given the world to be depended upon. Taken in its entirety it is absolutely reliable. Its facts can be completely demonstrated by all who will take the unprejudiced pains to do so. It is ready for use. It is practical. Use it. The theory that one can ascertain a person&#8217;s character by the shape of their features is disturbing to say the least. You can see a selection of the book&#8217;s images over in our post in the Images collection. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7659
title: Sketches by Yoshitoshi (1882)
uri: Sketches-by-Yoshitoshi-(1882)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/21/sketches-by-yoshitoshi-1882/
content:
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing (literally meaning &#8220;pictures of the floating world&#8221;). He is additionally regarded as one of the form&#8217;s greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. This series of coloured woodblock prints were produced in 1882. (Wikipedia) (All images from the series &#8220;Sketches by Yoshitoshi&#8221; at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.) HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7707
title: A Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards (1886)
uri: A-Pack-of-Cavalier-Playing-Cards-(1886)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/26/a-pack-of-cavalier-playing-cards-1886/
content:
Explanatory notes of a pack of Cavalier playing cards, temp. Charles II. forming a complete political satire of the commonwealth, by Edmund Goldsmid; 1886; E. &#038; G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh. A facsimile with explanations of a &#8220;very curious Pack of Cards&#8221; which used to belong to Lord Nelson and date from around 1660. The cards feature various satirical allusions to the politics of the time &#8211; namely the English Civil War and the following Interregnum &#8211; and, along with the explanations given, form (as the subtitle announces) &#8220;a complete political satire of the commonwealth&#8221;. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the University of Toronto. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7724
title: The World Turned Upside Down (18th century)
uri: The-World-Turned-Upside-Down-(18th-century)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/03/28/the-world-turned-upside-down-18th-century/
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A series of woodcuts from an 18th century chapbook entitled The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man, Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects. As well as the amusing woodcuts showing various reversals (many revolving around the inversion of animal and human relations) there is also included a poem on the topic. The chapbook is reproduced in the wonderful Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century (1882) edited by John Ashton, which brings together hundreds of facsimiles of 18th century chapbooks upon a huge range of subjects. All images are from the book housed at the Internet Archive, donated by University of Pittsburgh Library System. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7744
title: James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)
uri: James-Mooney-s-Ghost-Dance-Recordings-(1894)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/02/james-mooneys-ghost-dance-recordings-1894/
content:
A series of recordings made by James Mooney in 1894 of different Native American Ghost Dance songs. According to the Library Of Congress notes that accompany the recordings, the performances are probably by Mooney himself and not by Native Americans. Mooney was an ethnographer and self-taught expert on American tribes through his own studies and his careful observation during long residences with different groups, specifically the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains. His most notable works were his ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull&#8217;s death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups. According to the prophet Jack Wilson (Wovoka)&#8217;s teachings, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to native peoples throughout the region. MP3 Download Part 1 / Part 2


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7750
title: The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)
uri: The-History-of-Four-footed-Beasts-and-Serpents-(1658)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/03/the-history-of-four-footed-beasts-and-serpents-1658/
content:
A selection of woodcuts from a book entitled The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents, published in 1658. Most of this three-volume compilation is comprised of the zoological works of the English clergyman Edward Topsell who published several books on religion and other matters during his lifetime. A whole host of animals are represented in Topsell&#8217;s illustrations, all of which which came directly from earlier works by the Swiss physician, naturalist, and author Konrad Gesner. Amongst the usual suspects there are also more unusual mythical specimens, such as the “Hydra,” with two claws, a curled serpent’s tail, and seven small mammalian heads; the “Lamia,” with a cat-like body, hooves on the hind feet, claws on the front, and a human woman’s face and hair; and the “Mantichora,” with a lion’s body and mane, a man’s face and head of hair, and a grotesquely smiling mouth. (All images taken from the University of Houston Digital Library). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7791
title: Extracts from the Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks (1769)
uri: Extracts-from-the-Endeavour-Journal-of-Joseph-Banks-(1769)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/05/extracts-from-the-endeavour-journal-of-joseph-banks-1769/
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Appointed as the expedition&#8217;s official botanist, a 25 year old Joseph Banks travelled on Captain Cook&#8217;s first great voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. After landing on the island of Tahiti, Banks was soon to become an invaluable member of the crew by virtue of the friendly relations he struck up with the islanders; a mutual trust he built up through his openness, natural curiosity and fascination with their customs and way of life. In his willingness to learn their language, eat their food, sleep in their huts, record their customs and partake in their rituals, Banks was pioneering a new kind of science &#8211; that of ethnology. As the weeks progressed his botanical observations increasingly gave way to a study of the people (&#8220;studies&#8221; that were not always at arm&#8217;s length!). His experiences in his three month stay on the island are recorded in his Endeavour Journal. The journal is unique in character, not merely in terms of its content but also, as the writer Richard Holmes comments, &#8220;for their racy style, appalling spelling and non-existent punctuation&#8221;. Below are a few choice extracts, highlighted by Richard Holmes in his (highly recommnded) The Age of Wonder &#8211; a book [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7843
title: Hands (1944)
uri: Hands-(1944)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/08/hands-1944/
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&#8220;Have you ever thought about what hands can do?&#8221;, asks the opening of this short WWII propaganda film from the U.S. Army Pictorial Service. The film is from the Prelinger Archive, housed at the Internet Archive. Note this film is in the public domain in the US, but may not be in other jurisdictions. Please check its status in your jurisdiction before re-using. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7856
title: The Hasheesh Eater (1857)
uri: The-Hasheesh-Eater-(1857)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/09/the-hasheesh-eater-1857/
content:
The Hasheesh Eater: being passages from the life of a Pythagorean, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow; 1857; Harper &#038; Bros., New York. The Hasheesh Eater: being passages from the life of a Pythagorean is an autobiographical book by the American novelist and journalist Fitz Hugh Ludlow in which he describes his altered states of consciousness and philosophical flights of fancy while using a cannabis extract. Many pages are given over to detailed and elaborate descriptions of the visions he underwent after ingesting the drug. He also curiously talks of the perils of severe addiction although such a thing is not normally associated with cannabis use (some put this down to an overactive wish to align himself with his hero Thomas De Quincey and his experience with opium). The book was very popular on its publication in 1857 and led to great interest in the drug it described. Not long after its publication, the Gunjah Wallah Co. in New York began advertising &#8220;Hasheesh Candy&#8221;: The Arabian &#8220;Gunjh&#8221; of Enchantment confectionized. — A most pleasurable and harmless stimulant. — Cures Nervousness, Weakness, Melancholy, &#038;c. Inspires all classes with new life and energy. A complete mental and physical invigorator. Cult figure Terence McKenna would [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7872
title: Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)
uri: Radical-Fashion-from-the-Schembart-Carnival-(1590)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/11/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590/
content:
Illustrations from a 16th century manuscript detailing the phenomenon of Nuremberg&#8217;s Schembart Carnival, (literally &#8220;bearded-mask&#8221; carnival). Beginning in 1449, the event was popular throughout the 15th century but was ended in 1539 due to the complaints of an influential preacher named Osiander who objected to his effigy being paraded on a float, depicting him playing backgammon surrounded by fools and devils. According to legend, the carnival had its roots in a dance (a &#8220;Zämertanz&#8221;) which the butchers of Nuremberg were given permission to hold by the Emperor as a reward for their loyalty amid a trade guild rebellion. Over the years the event took on a more subversive tone, evolving to let others take part with elaborate costumes displayed and large ships on runners, known as &#8220;Hells&#8221;, which were paraded through the streets. After its end, many richly illustrated manuscripts (known as &#8220;Schembartbücher&#8221;) were made detailing the carnival&#8217;s 90 year existence. We are unsure what the flaming &#8220;artichokes&#8221; are all about, if any one has a clue do let us know in the comments! *UPDATE* solved &#8211; according to Christies: &#8220;They brandished lances and bunches of leaves &#8211; known as Lebensrute &#8212; that concealed fireworks.&#8221; UCLA Digital Library Underlying Work: [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7900
title: The Accidents of Youth (1819)
uri: The-Accidents-of-Youth-(1819)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/15/the-accidents-of-youth-1819/
content:
The Accidents of Youth, consisting of short histories, calculated to improve the moral conduct of children, and warn them of the many dangers to which they are exposed : illustrated by engravings; 1819; Jas. W. and Chas. Adlard, London. Through a series of short stories and wonderful engravings, this book is aimed at keeping young people out of trouble and &#8220;calculated to improve [their] moral conduct&#8221;. As the author declares in his/her brilliantly earnest preface addressed to the child reader of the book: My Dear Children, The inexperience and thoughtlessness natural at your age exposes you to many dangers : I have therefore pointed out some of them in this book, which contains several instructive little histories, in which you will behold the misfortunes that arise from disobedience and want of thought. When your parents desire you not to climb upon the chairs, or touch the fire, or play with knives, or pins, it is not because they wish to prevent you amusing yourselves ; they are only anxious to keep you from harm. If you were allowed to do whatever you pleased, many accidents would happen through your own indiscretion : for instance, when climbing on the furniture you [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7921
title: Illustrations from a Victorian book on Magic (1897)
uri: Illustrations-from-a-Victorian-book-on-Magic-(1897)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/17/illustrations-from-a-victorian-book-on-magic-1897/
content:
Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins. The book takes a thorough tour through the popular magic tricks and illusions of the day, including along the way many delightfully surreal diagrams and illustrations, the top pick of which we&#8217;ve included here &#8211; often especially great when seen out of context. Towards the end are some particularly great &#8220;decapitation&#8221; trick photographs. See the book, with explanatory text and many more illustrations over in our post in the Texts collection. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7925
title: Magic: stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
uri: Magic-stage-illusions-and-scientific-diversions-including-trick-phot
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/17/magic-stage-illusions-and-scientific-diversions-including-trick-photography-1897/

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Magic: stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins, with an introduction by Henry Ridgely Evans; 1897; Low, London. A massive late 19th century book on magic and stage illusions including a section on trick photography. The book includes more than 400 (mostly) magnificently surreal illustrations and explanatory diagrams, a select few of which you can see over in our post in the Images collection. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the California Digital Library. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7980
title: Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn
uri: Texts-in-Sebald-s-The-Rings-of-Saturn
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/23/texts-in-sebalds-the-rings-of-saturn/
content:
At the time of his death in 2001 at the age of 57, the German writer W.G. Sebald was cited by many critics as a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was his book The Rings of Saturn, written in 1995 (translated into English in 1998), which went a long way to securing Sebald&#8217;s reputation as a writer pioneering a new kind of literary fiction. The book is exemplary of his strange and unique style: the hybridity of genres, the blurring of fact and fiction, the indistinct black and white photographs, and his meditation on the destructive nature of history, the human lives affected, and the restorative power of art. The book is, on one level, a walking tour through the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, Sebald&#8217;s adopted home (he&#8217;d taught literature at the UEA there since 1970). The reader moves with the melancholic narrator from town to town, village to village, but in the process &#8211; through an astonishing network of associations, tangents, and apparent coincidences &#8211; one is led all over the world, into many different times, and many different lives. A ride on a miniature railway at Somerleyton Hall leads to 19th century [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8084
title: Bifurcated Girls: Vanity Fair Special Issue (1903)
uri: Bifurcated-Girls-Vanity-Fair-Special-Issue-(1903)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/26/bifurcated-girls-vanity-fair-special-issue-1903/
content:
Not the same Vanity Fair of current fame, this was a version published by The Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City, incorporated in February 1902 but which went bankrupt in April 1904. &#8220;Vanity Fair&#8221; has been the title for at least 5 magazines, and as a phrase became popular through John Bunyan&#8217;s Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress where it was the name for Beelzebub&#8217;s dominion, and later also as the title of William Thackeray&#8217;s 1848 novel. Dian Hansen in the first volume of her History of Men&#8217;s Magazines (Taschen, 2004) discusses the &#8220;Bifurcated Girls&#8221; special issue and argues that this particular incarnation of Vanity Fair can be seen as the origin of the American girlie magazine: While France had a well-established men&#8217;s magazine industry by 1900, America was just showing its ankles in 1903. A magazine called Vanity Fair (unrelated to the current incarnation) was the raciest thing around, and rooming house loozies the hotties of the time. In this New York, tabloid girls who drank like men might strip down to their petticoats and fall into bed together, exposing their corset cover and stockings to peeping male boarders. The famously loose morals of stage actresses made them popular subjects for these [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8105
title: Lantern Slides of Norway (ca.1910)
uri: Lantern-Slides-of-Norway-(ca-1910)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/29/lantern-slides-of-norway/
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A selection from a collection of early 20th century lantern slides held at the Fylkesarkivet of Sogn og Fjordane, a county in the west of Norway. The slides are produced by at least two British photographers – professional photographer Samuel J. Beckett and amateur photographer P. Heywood Hadfield, who was a ship&#8217;s surgeon employed by the Orient Steam Navigation Company. Hadfield produced several illustrated books from his travels, including With an Ocean Liner (Orient Co’s S.S. “Ophir”) through the Fiords of Norway. A Photographic Memento of a Fortnight’s Cruising, published in several editions by the London Stereoscopic &#038; Photographic Co. Ltd in the early 1900s. Beckett also produced a book on Norway The Fjords and Folk of Norway, first published in 1915 by Methuen &#038; Co. Ltd. Learn more about Lantern Slides here. (All images taken from the Flickr Commons collection of the Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane. Visit for higher resolution images and for more details on each photograph). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7669
title: Jelly Roll Morton (1927)
uri: Jelly-Roll-Morton-(1927)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/19/jelly-roll-morton/
content:
A compilation of Jelly Roll Morton&#8217;s classic Chicago &#8220;Red Hot Peppers&#8221; sessions, recorded in 1926-27. Jelly Roll Morton &#8211; ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana &#8211; started out his musical career playing brothels as a teenager, then toured the American South as part of a minstrel show, before settling in Chicago where he started to write songs. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz&#8217;s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. In 1915, his composition &#8220;Jelly Roll Blues&#8221; became the first ever published jazz composition. Morton is also notable for naming and popularizing the &#8220;Spanish tinge&#8221; (habanera rhythm and tresillo), and for writing such standards as &#8220;Wolverine Blues&#8221;, &#8220;Black Bottom Stomp&#8221;, and &#8220;I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say&#8221;, the latter a tribute to New Orleans personalities from the turn of the 19th century to 20th century. (Wikipedia) MP3 Download Internet Archive Link Some songs, if not composed by Jelly Roll Morton, may still be under copyright in certain places. Please check status in your jurisdiction before re-using. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=7895
title: Bible Symbols (1908)
uri: Bible-Symbols-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/07/bible-symbols-1908/
content:
Bible symbols, designed and arranged to stimulate a greater interest in the study of the Bible by both young and old. The choicest passages of God&#8217;s word put in the fascinating garb of pictures by Frank Beard and others. Text prepared and arranged by Martha Van Marter; 1908; Hertel, Jenkins Co., Chicago. As the subtitle eloquently explains &#8220;The choicest passages of God&#8217;s word put in the fascinating garb of pictures&#8221;. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Underlying Work: PD U.S. &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8246
title: 17th century Ethiopian manuscript: the miracles of the archangel Michael
uri: 17th-century-Ethiopian-manuscript-the-miracles-of-the-archangel-Micha
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/09/17th-century-ethiopian-manuscript-the-miracles-of-the-archangel-michael/

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A selection of folios from an illuminated manuscript of 17th century Ethiopia, produced during the cultural boom, especially in painting, brought about by the establishment of a permanent court at Gondar by the Solomonic emperor Fasilädäs (who reigned 1632-67). The nearly 50 full-page illuminations of this particular manuscript tell the story of the Archangel Michael who, under the patronage of Emperor Zär&#8217;a Ya&#8217;eqob, had became the most venerated of all archangels in Ethiopia. He is depicted undertaking a vast host of miracles and heroic feats including saving the faithful from the burning flames of hell, healing the sick and treading on Satan. The illustrations can also teach us about the Ethiopia of the time. According to The Walters Art Museum, &#8220;the minutely rendered textiles in these pictures suggest a connection with the fashions of the Gondarine court and indicate that the painters depicted their scriptural subjects using a visual language rooted in contemporary culture.&#8221; The Walters Art Museum Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8289
title: The Kawana Trio (1919)
uri: The-Kawana-Trio-(1919)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/10/the-kawana-trio-1919/
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A film by Hans A. Spanuth for the series &#8220;Spanuth&#8217;s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies&#8221; filmed in Chicago. It shows the daring exploits of the the Kawana Trio, described in the opening credits as &#8220;Artistic Foot Jugglers&#8221;. The film is housed at Open Images, originally from the Library of Congress. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8348
title: Traditional Italian song with Zampogna and Ciaramella (1920)
uri: Traditional-Italian-song-with-Zampogna-and-Ciaramella-(1920)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/13/traditional-italian-song-with-zampogna-and-ciaramella-1920/

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A Zampogna is an Italian bagpipe, and a Ciaramella is a small woodwind that plays the higher melody line over the Zampogna&#8217;s drone. This combination is often used for traditional Christmas music, as in this circa 1920 recording of a &#8220;Novena Di Natale&#8221; by uncredited performers. MP3 Download Internet Archive Link HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8419
title: Illustrative plates from How I Killed the Tiger (1902)
uri: Illustrative-plates-from-How-I-Killed-the-Tiger-(1902)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/15/illustrative-plates-from-how-i-killed-the-tiger-1902/
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Selected plates from How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India (1902), a small book by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield detailing his close brush with death by tiger. As the author explains in his introduction: My main purpose in writing this little book, was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger. My life had been adventurous up to that time. I had shot big game of various kinds. But this episode, so marvellous in itself, so important in its influence upon my after life and character, marks the close of my career as a hunter of big game. Read the book, including more illustrative plates, over in our post in the Texts collection. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: University of Toronto Libraries Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8426
title: How I Killed the Tiger (1902)
uri: How-I-Killed-the-Tiger-(1902)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/15/how-i-killed-the-tiger-1902/
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How I killed the tiger being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India; 1902; Smith&#8217;s Print.and Pub. Agency, London. How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India (1902) is a small book written by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield detailing his close brush with death by tiger. As the author explains in his introduction: My main purpose in writing this little book, was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger. My life had been adventurous up to that time. I had shot big game of various kinds. But this episode, so marvellous in itself, so important in its influence upon my after life and character, marks the close of my career as a hunter of big game. See a selection of the book&#8217;s wonderful illustrative plates over in the post in our Images collection. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: University of Toronto Libraries Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8479
title: Böckler’s Pleasure Garden Plans (1664)
uri: Böckler-s-Pleasure-Garden-Plans-(1664)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/21/bocklers-pleasure-garden-plans-1664/
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Selected illustrations from the German architect and engineer Georg Andreas Böckler&#8217;s Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664). The book is mostly concerned with the theory of hydrodyanmics, water pump systems and different designs for water fountains, but also contains this series of elaborate geometrical pleasure garden designs. It&#8217;s not entirely clear whether they are projected plans or a record of what already existed (if anyone knows then please do let us know!). Housed at: Wikimedia Commons &#124; From: Deutsche Fotothek Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8488
title: A Closer Look at Richard Wagner’s Manuscripts
uri: A-Closer-Look-at-Richard-Wagner-s-Manuscripts
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/22/a-closer-look-at-richard-wagners-manuscripts/
content:
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, one of the most influential and controversial composers ever to have lived. With his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (&#8220;total work of art&#8221;) &#8211; by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts &#8211; he revolutionised opera and gave birth to such masterpieces as Tristan und Isolde and the epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. If his music was sublime, his political views regarding &#8220;race&#8221; were far from it &#8211; in his writings he frequently expressed anti-semitic views (particularly in his racist tract Judaism in Music). The beauty of his music and the vileness of some of his political opinions (complicated by the fact that he was reported to have had life-long Jewish friends), make him a continuing source of intrigue and debate for scholars the world over. To mark the anniversary the British Library have made available online its collection of Wagner manuscripts, mostly from early on in his career. The manuscripts come from the huge music-related manuscript collection of the great Austrian writer and music obsessive Stefan Zweig (whose writings, incidentally, passed into the public domain this year). Zweig acquired the Wagner manuscripts [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8540
title: Conversations with Lord Byron (1824)
uri: Conversations-with-Lord-Byron-(1824)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/23/conversations-with-lord-byron-1824/
content:
Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822 by Thomas Medwin; 1824; Henry Colburn, London. On 17th May 1824, a month after Lord Byron died, his memoirs were burnt in the upstairs drawing room of a house on Albemarle Street, London. The manuscript pages of the memoirs had been entrusted by Byron to his literary executor Thomas Moore two years earlier with a mind that one day they would be published. But with Byron dead, Byron&#8217;s publisher John Murray, thinking the pages&#8217; supposedly scandalous contents far too damaging to both the reputation and legacy of Byron himself and presumably also to the publisher who would publish them, ripped them up and placed them in the fire. In his book Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822 by Thomas Medwin, published that same year, the author endeavours to &#8220;lessen, if not remedy, the evil&#8221; of the burning of Byron&#8217;s memoirs. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8734
title: Just Imagine (1947)
uri: Just-Imagine-(1947)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/28/just-imagine-1947/
content:
Film using stop animation shows the character &#8220;Tommy Telephone&#8221; (the AT&#038;T advertising &#8220;spokescreature&#8221; at the time) making a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: Prelinger Archives Underlying Work: PD U.S. &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Ogg &#124; MPEG4 &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8742
title: Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729)
uri: Mother-Goose-s-French-Birth-(1697)-and-British-Afterlife-(1729)
content: Christine Jones explores the early English translations of Charles Perrault&#82&#8230;
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/29/mother-gooses-french-birth-1697-and-british-afterlife-1729/


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8904
title: The Baby’s Own Aesop (1908)
uri: The-Baby-s-Own-Aesop-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/30/the-babys-own-aesop-1908/
content:
The Baby&#8217;s own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane; 1908; F. Warne, New York. Walter Crane&#8217;s beautifully illustrated version of Aesop&#8217;s fables, shortened and put into limericks for the younger reader and first published in 1887. Aesop&#8217;s Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st-century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop: &#8230; like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events. (Wikipedia) The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the New [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9050
title: The Pleasures of Melancholy (1747)
uri: The-Pleasures-of-Melancholy-(1747)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/04/the-pleasures-of-melancholy-1747/
content:
The Pleasures of Melancholy, a poem, Robert Wharton; 1747; Dodsley, London. A pamphlet consisting of a poem by the English poet Thomas Warton, who from 1785 to 1790 was the Poet Laureate of England. Published in 1747, the year he graduated from Oxford, &#8220;Pleasures of Melancholy&#8221; remains one of Wharton&#8217;s best known works, and a preeminent example of the &#8220;Graveyard Poets&#8221;, a group of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Kindle &#124; EPUB &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9065
title: Salome with John The Baptist’s Head at the Rijksmuseum
uri: Salome-with-John-The-Baptist-s-Head-at-the-Rijksmuseum
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/06/salome-with-john-the-baptists-head-rijksmuseum/
content:
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom. And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist. And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath&#8217;s sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9246
title: Remmelin’s Anatomical ‘Flap’ Book (1667)
uri: Remmelin-s-Anatomical-Flap-Book-(1667)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/11/remmelins-anatomical-flap-book-1667/
content:
This volume is a rare edition in Dutch of the greatest of the anatomical &#8216;flap&#8217; books. The work features three full-page plates with dozens of detailed anatomical illustrations superimposed so that lifting the layers shows the anatomy as it would appear during dissection. Although flaps had been used in printing before, Remmelin was the first to use them on this scale. Eight prints of the plates were produced then cut apart and pasted together to form the layers. The first authorized edition was printed in Latin in 1619 with the title Catoptrum Microcosmicum. The plates were printed in 1613, and the text without the plates was printed the following year, both without the consent of the author. Although Remmelin&#8217;s work was very popular and went through a number of editions, the format of the flaps was very delicate and not practical for the dissection room. Copies such as this one with all of the flaps intact are very rare. (Text from the NLM website) U.S. National Library of Medicine Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9061
title: The Blossoms of Morality (1806)
uri: The-Blossoms-of-Morality-(1806)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/13/the-blossoms-of-morality-1806/
content:
The Blossoms of Morality intended for the amusement and instruction of young ladies and gentlemen by the editor of The looking-glass for the mind ; with forty-seven cuts ; designed and engraved by I. Bewick.; 4th edition, 1806; Printed for J. Harris in London. As the subtitle proclaims, this book originally published in the late 18th century is &#8220;intended for the amusement and instruction of young ladies and gentlemen&#8221;. The introduction is presumably one into the moral ridden world of adults. A vast array of different little stories are told for the purpose, including the excellently titled &#8220;Juvenile tyranny conquered&#8221; and &#8220;The melancholy effects of pride&#8221;. Each is told in a brilliantly earnest yet flowery style, for example, the first sentence of the first story, &#8220;Ernestus and Fragilus&#8221;, reads: The faint glimmerings of the pale-faced moon on the troubled billows of the ocean are not so fleeting and inconstant as the fortune and condition of human life. 47 beautiful illustrations by I. Bewick adorn it throughout. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Kindle &#124; EPUB &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public [...]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9615
title: The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)
uri: The-Corset-X-Rays-of-Dr-Ludovic-O-Followell-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/18/the-corset-x-rays-of-dr-ludovic-ofollowell-1908/
content:
X-Ray images of women wearing corsets from the second volume of the French doctor Ludovic O&#8217;Followell&#8217;s Le Corset (1908). Although Dr O’Followell was clearly keen to show the damaging impact of corsets on women&#8217;s health, he did not actually want the corset to be abolished, but was simply trying to encourage a less severe design. Dr O’Followell in fact continued to write a regular column for the deluxe corsetier&#8217;s magazine Les Dessous Elégance. Wikimedia Commons Found via: Retronaut Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9710
title: Perversion for Profit (1965)
uri: Perversion-for-Profit-(1965)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/19/perversion-for-profit-1965/
content:
Perversion for Profit is a 1965 propaganda film financed by Charles Keating and narrated by news reporter George Putnam. A vehement diatribe against pornography, the film argues that sexually explicit materials corrupt young viewers and readers, leading to acts of violence and &#8220;perverted&#8221; attitudes regarding sex &#8211; including inclination toward homosexuality. Pornography is also painted as part of the Communist conspiracy and the motor behind the decline of Western civilization: This same type of rot and decay caused sixteen of the nineteen major civilizations to vanish from the Earth. Magnificent Egypt, classical Greece, imperial Rome, all crumbled away not because of the strength of the aggressor, but because of moral decay from within. But we are in a unique position to cure our own ills: our Constitution was written by men who put their trust in God and founded a government based in His laws. These laws are on our side. We have a constitutional guarantee of protection against obscenity. And, in this day especially, we must seek to deliver ourselves from this twisting, torturing evil. We must save our nation from decay and deliver our children from the horrors of perversion. We must make our land, &#8216;the land of [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9787
title: A Midsummer Schottische
uri: A-Midsummer-Schottische
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/21/a-midsummer-schottische/
content:
Traditional music for the midsummer &#8220;Schottische&#8221; dance, known as &#8220;Schottis&#8221; in Scandinavia where this score is thought to have originated from. The dance is considered by The Oxford Companion to Music to be a kind of slower polka, with continental-European origin (possibly Bohemia). The recording might possibly be of accordion duo Arvid Franzen and Einar Holt recorded in the mid 1920s in New York. Housed at: Internet Archive Underlying Work: PD 70 Years &#124; Digital Copy: Pending Clarification Download: Flac &#124; VBR MP3 &#124; Ogg Vorbis HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9650
title: Canada Through a Lens: the British Library Colonial Copyright Collection
uri: Canada-Through-a-Lens-the-British-Library-Colonial-Copyright-Collecti
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/02/canada-through-a-lens/
content:
CURATOR&#8217;S CHOICE #1: PHIL HATFIELD AND ANDREW GRAY FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY Phil Hatfield, British Library Curator in Canadian and Caribbean Studies, and Andrew Gray, British Library Wikipedian in Residence, kick off our brand new Curator&#8217;s Choice series by taking a look at the fascinating array of photographs in the British Library&#8217;s Canadian Colonial Copyright Collection. Copyright collections &#8211; those aggregations of published material accumulated by libraries as a result of copyright deposit laws &#8211; can provide a unique view of the world; especially when they have the opportunity to add photographs to their holdings. With minimal curatorial involvement in their selection and collection, as well as few gate keepers beyond the administration fee required to register copyright, you could say that such caches of material are a rare thing &#8211; a photographic world selected by myriad photographers themselves. This is the format of the British Library’s Colonial Copyright Collection of Canadian photographs, over 4,000 images registered for deposit and collected by the Library between 1895 and 1924. By and large the contents of the collection have been copyrighted as a result of the quality of the shot, the potential to make money from the photograph or, most likely, a [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10108
title: Coughs and Sneezes (1945)
uri: Coughs-and-Sneezes-(1945)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/09/coughs-and-sneezes-1945/
content:
A series of animated GIFs excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from Coughs and Sneezes, a curious and amusing propaganda film from post war era on the dangers presented by&#8230; sneezing! You can see the full film featured on the Internet Archive as part of the British Government Public Information Films collection. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10128
title: Hands (1944)
uri: 2013-07-09-Hands-(1944)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/09/hands-1944-2/
content:
A series of animated GIFs excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from Hands, an official war film by U.S. Army Signal Corps promoting total war mobilization, showing only human hands. You can see the full film featured on The Public Domain Review here and also on the Internet Archive as part of the Prelinger Archives collection. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10140
title: The Kiss (1896)
uri: 2013-07-09-The-Kiss-(1896)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/09/the-kiss-1896-2/
content:
An animated GIF excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from a 19th century Edison film. “An osculatory performance by May Irwin and John Rice&#8221;, a scene from the New York stage comedy, The Widow Jones, in which Irwin and Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York world newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896. The first ever kiss to be caught on film. You can see the full film featured on The Public Domain Review here and also on the Internet Archive. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9980
title: The Knife Throwing Mother (1950)
uri: The-Knife-Throwing-Mother-(1950)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/07/knife-throwing-mother/
content:
A series of animated GIFs excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from a short Universal Newsreel from 1950, in which the knife thrower Louella Gallagher performs with her two daughters: Connie Ann of 5 years and Colleena Sue 2 and 1/2. You can see the full film featured on The Public Domain Review here and also on the Internet Archive as part of the Prelinger Archives collection. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10211
title: Pollen Up Close (1837)
uri: Pollen-Up-Close-(1837)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/16/pollen-up-close-1837/
content:
Illustrations of various strains of pollen in extreme magnification, as featured in Ueber den Pollen (1837), a book by St. Petersburg based German pharmacist and chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche. For a key identifying each pollen type pictured see these descriptions (in German) Housed at: Internet ArchiveFrom: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign via Biodiversity Heritage Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions The Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility at Dartmouth College produced this photograph showing pollen strains at similar magnifications to those shown in Fritzsche&#8217;s book (around 500 times magnification). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10226
title: The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)
uri: The-Book-of-Wonderful-Characters-(1869)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/17/the-book-of-wonderful-characters-1869/
content:
The Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and anecdotes of remarkable and eccentric persons in all ages and countries; 1869; J. C. Hotten, London. Printmaker James Caulfield (1764–1826) spent much of his career publishing illustrated books about &#8216;remarkable persons&#8217;. He began his first series around 1788 and continued it sporadically from 1790 to 1795, with books on a similar theme continuing to appear in the first decades of the nineteenth century. More than forty years after his death, this collection of biographies (produced in collaboration with Henry Wilson (fl. 1820–30)) was republished in 1869. The vignettes, accompanied by engravings of each individual, describe a wide-ranging group – from the man who died aged 152 to a &#8216;remarkable glutton&#8217; to a woman who lived on the smell of flowers – their only common factor being that they were in some way &#8216;wonderful&#8217;. (Text via Cambridge University Press, through which you can buy a 2012 reprint edition). Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Kindle &#124; EPUB HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10238
title: The First Tour de France (1903)
uri: The-First-Tour-de-France-(1903)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/18/the-first-tour-de-france-1903/
content:
The 2013 Tour de France marks the 100th of the event&#8217;s history, which began in 1903 (the competition was put on hold during the two world wars). Strangely, this inaugural event of 1903 had it&#8217;s origins in one of France&#8217;s greatest political scandals &#8211; the Dreyfuss Affair. In 1894 a young French artillery officer of Jewish descent, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of high treason but then, years later, was proven to be innocent in the light of new evidence, evidence which the military attempted to suppress. The ensuing debate over Dreyfuss&#8217; innocence, and the wider issues of anti-semitism in which it was embedded, divided the nation. One such division occurred within France&#8217;s most popular cycling magazine L&#8217;Velo, causing it to split into two when an anti-Dreyfuss contingent broke away to form L&#8217;Auto-Velo. L&#8217;Velo&#8216;s owner won a court case forcing L&#8217;Auto-Velo to change their name, which they did, to L&#8217;Auto, a move which saw their sales subsequently plummet. In an effort to boost their waning popularity, and win back their cycling fans, L&#8217;Auto set up the Tour de France in 1903. It was a hugely successful campaign which caused their sales to increase 6-fold during and after the race and, [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10326
title: The Somersault Man (1923)
uri: The-Somersault-Man-(1923)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/26/the-somersault-man-1923/
content:
A short silent clip from a Dutch newsreel showing a man somersaulting through the streets. Housed at: Open Images &#124; From: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Underlying Work: No Known Copyright Restrictions &#124; Digital Copy: Share Alike Download: Ogg &#124; Mpeg4 HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10420
title: The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell, the Tattooed Man (1845)
uri: The-Life-and-Adventures-of-James-F-O-Connell-the-Tattooed-Man-(184
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/30/the-life-and-adventures-of-james-f-oconnell-the-tattooed-man-1845/

content:
The Life and Adventures of James F. O&#8217;Connell the Tattooed Man, by James F. O&#8217;Connell; 1845; W. Applegate, New-York. One of the main attractions at P.T. Barnum&#8217;s 1842 &#8216;freakshow&#8217; American Museum was a man named James F. O&#8217;Connell, notable for his head to toe covering in tattoos, the U.S.&#8217;s first tattooed showman. To accompany his unusual appearance, the show featured O&#8217;Connell telling of how he received his tattoo during his years of captivity in the South Pacific. According to his account he became shipwrecked on the Caroline Islands and saved himself from death at the hands of the Ponapeans natives by performing a series of Irish jigs for their amusement. Though his life was spared he tells of how he was subject to a compulsory tattooing at the hands of a series of &#8220;voluptuous virgins&#8221; and how he was forced to marry the last of his tattooers. When a ship landed on the island in 1833 (some 5 years or so since his shipwreck there in the late 1820s) O&#8217;Connell left, making his way to the U.S. where he eventually ended up working in P.T.Barnum&#8217;s &#8216;freakshow&#8217;, telling tales of the eight day long process of tattooing he underwent and performing [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10445
title: The Belly of a Horse (1820)
uri: The-Belly-of-a-Horse-(1820)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/31/the-belly-of-a-horse-1820/
content:
Anatomical diagram from William Carver&#8217;s Practical horse farrier, or, The traveller&#8217;s pocket companion: shewing the best method to preserve the horse in health; and likewise the cure of the most prominent diseases to which this noble animal is subject, in the United States of America : the whole being the result of nearly forty years&#8217; experience, with an extensive practice, published in 1820. U.S. National Library of Medicine Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10472
title: Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838)
uri: Nursery-Lessons-in-Words-of-One-Syllable-(1838)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/01/nursery-lessons-in-words-of-one-syllable-1838/
content:
Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable; 1838; Darton and Harvey, London. A charming little illustrated book for young readers, consisting entirely of words of one syllable. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Found via: Tiffany Johnson Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Kindle &#124; EPUB &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=9662
title: Carel and Abraham Allard in the Court of Momus
uri: Carel-and-Abraham-Allard-in-the-Court-of-Momus
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/06/carel-and-abraham-allard-in-the-court-of-momus/
content:
CURATOR&#8217;S CHOICE #2: DANIEL HORST FROM THE RIJSKMUSEUM Daniel Horst, research associate at the Rijksmuseum, explores the controversial collection of satirical etchings published by Abraham Allard in Amsterdam ca. 1708 under the title &#8216;t Lusthof van Momus. One of the lesser known sub-collections of the Rijksmuseum&#8217;s impressive and rapidly growing collection of digitised works is the set of ‘history pictures’ compiled by the Amsterdam art dealer, auctioneer and publisher Frederik Muller (1817-1881). After his death in 1881 the Rijksmuseum was able to acquire this important collection of c. 25.000 prints, drawings and books illustrating the history of the Netherlands, including a remarkable series of prints published in 1713 by the Dutch printmaker Abraham Allard under the title &#8216;t Lust-Hof van Momus (Fig. 1). In translation the full title reads: The Court of Momus, planted with the principal crops of Mars in Europe and decorated with political emblems of the current war and embellished with elegant historical and satirical poems. The volume contains 127 prints, all of which pertain to the war between the Dutch Republic and France, part of the War of the Spanish Succession which raged in continental Europe and overseas between 1701 and 1714. Although Abraham Allard (1676-1725) [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10518
title: Women having tea in Napier, New Zealand (ca.1890)
uri: Women-having-tea-in-Napier-New-Zealand-(ca-1890)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/09/women-having-tea-in-napier-new-zealand/
content:
An animated GIF created by Okkult Motion Pictures from a stereoscopic photograph featured in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand. The photograph taken by William Williams shows his wife Lydia (dressed in black, second from left) and other women seated for tea outside their house in Napier, New Zealand. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10522
title: A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program
uri: A-Selection-from-The-Getty-s-Open-Content-Program
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/14/selection-from-the-gettys-open-content-program/
content:
In August of this year The Getty announced the launch of their Open Content Program which sees more than 4500 images from their collection made available under an open license, meaning anyone can share the images freely and without restriction. We&#8217;ve spent the day trawling the thousands of images to bring you a small selection of highlights from their wonderful collection. Visit their site to get exploring yourself. The Getty Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10540
title: The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson (1904)
uri: The-Wisdom-of-Robert-Louis-Stevenson-(1904)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/15/the-wisdom-of-robert-louis-stevenson-1904/
content:
The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson collected and arranged from his writings; 1904; Scott-Thaw Co., New York. A book of posthumously collected extracts from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, most famous for his books Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. For more RLS related material check out his &#8220;Baby Book&#8221;, a remarkable record of the first few years of his life, as noted down by his mother. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: Library of Congress Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Kindle &#124; EPUB &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10675
title: Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)
uri: Engravings-from-a-French-Ice-Skating-Manual-(1813)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/20/engravings-from-a-french-ice-skating-manual-1813/
content:
Coloured engravings from France&#8217;s first ice-skating manual Le Vrai Patineur (The True Skater) written by Jean Garcin, a book praised in Honoré de Balzac&#8217;s Illusions Perdues. As well as the aide of eight engraved plates, four of which are featured here, the manual details many movements and poses, putting an emphasis on artistry and grace in contrast to the more straightforward technical approach usually practised in England. The book is considered to be one of the earliest works in any language devoted entirely to ice-skating. Villanova Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: Share Alike Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10688
title: Frank Desprez’s “Lasca” read by Harry E. Humphrey (1920)
uri: Frank-Desprez-s-Lasca-read-by-Harry-E-Humphrey-(1920)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/22/frank-desprezs-lasca-read-by-harry-e-humphrey-1920/
content:
Edison recording of Harry E. Humphrey reading the English writer Frank Desprez&#8217;s most famous poem &#8220;Lasca&#8221;. This ballad-like piece, first published in a London magazine in 1882, tells the story of a Mexican girl and her cowboy sweetheart caught in a cattle stampede &#8220;in Texas down by the Rio Grande&#8221;. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: Library of Congress Underlying Work: PD 70 Years &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: VBR MP3 &#124; Ogg Vorbis HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10733
title: That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)
uri: That-to-Study-Philosophy-is-to-Learn-to-Die-(1580)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/29/that-to-study-philosophy-is-to-learn-to-die-1580/
content:
&#8230;let us learn bravely to stand our ground, and fight him. And to begin to deprive him of the greatest advantage he has over us, let us take a way quite contrary to the common course. Let us disarm him of his novelty and strangeness, let us converse and be familiar with him, and have nothing so frequent in our thoughts as death. Upon all occasions represent him to our imagination in his every shape; at the stumbling of a horse, at the falling of a tile, at the least prick with a pin, let us presently consider, and say to ourselves, ‘Well, and what if it had been death itself?’ and, thereupon, let us encourage and fortify ourselves. Let us evermore, amidst our jollity and feasting, set the remembrance of our frail condition before our eyes, never suffering ourselves to be so far transported with our delights, but that we have some intervals of reflecting upon, and considering how many several ways this jollity of ours tends to death, and with how many dangers it threatens it. The Egyptians were wont to do after this manner, who in the height of their feasting and mirth, caused a dried skeleton [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10763
title: Edison’s backwards bicycle rider (1899)
uri: Edison-s-backwards-bicycle-rider-(1899)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/02/edisons-backwards-bicycle-rider-1899/
content:
An animated GIF created by Okkult Motion Pictures excerpted from Bicycle Trick Riding (1899), a 38” film dated March 20th, 1899 by Thomas A. Edison, showing perhaps the first ever footage of a bicycle trick. See the film here. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10722
title: Visual nation making and forgetting
uri: Visual-nation-making-and-forgetting
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/03/visual-nation-making-and-forgetting/
content:
CURATOR&#8217;S CHOICE #3: HENRIK HOLM FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK Henrik Holm, curator at the National Gallery of Denmark, looks at the making of the Danish painting canon and its relation to the construction of a national identity. The selection of Danish artworks that the Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark, has released for free download in high resolution (under a CCBY-license) offers a good case for taking a critical look at how national identity is constructed. One of the images in this collection is the painting often claimed by Danish art historians to represent the birth of a truly Danish kind of art &#8211; A View through Three of the Northwestern Arches of the Third Storey of the Colosseum in Rome. It was created by Christopher Wilhelm Eckersberg, the artist known as “The Father of Danish Painting”, inspiring as he did the so-called Golden Age of Danish painting. At the heart of Eckersberg’s work, and this Golden Age he inspired, was the practise of making sketches out in the open, en plein air, a practice made popular by the Parisian school of painter and revolutionary Jacques-Louis David, of which Eckersberg was a pupil, and later [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10570
title: Proving it: The American Provers’ Union documents certain ill effects
uri: Proving-it-The-American-Provers-Union-documents-certain-ill-effect
content: What would induce physicians to ingest mercury to the point of vomiting and to pains&#8230;
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/04/proving-it-the-american-provers-union-documents-certain-ill-effects/


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10843
title: The Coronation of King Ladislaus of Poland (1633)
uri: The-Coronation-of-King-Ladislaus-of-Poland-(1633)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/05/the-coronation-of-king-ladislaus-of-poland-1633/
content:
Illustration from a book celebrating the coronation of King Ladislaus of Poland in February of 1633. A rather rotund looking Ladislaus (presuming the figure is, in fact, the king) hovers in the clouds with the Latin words Ingenium Naturae on a banner above his head, literally translating as &#8220;natural talent&#8221;. National Library of Poland Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10854
title: A little wander down the catwalk of time…
uri: A-little-wander-down-the-catwalk-of-time
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/10/a-little-wander-down-the-catwalk-of-time/
content:
(seem more on our Pinterest Board). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10696
title: Caption Competition #1
uri: Caption-Competition-1
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/11/caption-competition-1/
content:
“Oh, yes. The entrée is definitely locally sourced.” AND THE WINNER IS&#8230; FIRST PLACE “Oh, yes. The entrée is definitely locally sourced.” (submitted by Amy Vail, from Rochester, U.S.A) SECOND PLACE &#8220;I didn&#39;t waste your time! The classified ad clearly stated No Pets Allowed.&#8221; (submitted by Vivian Guy, from Tulsa, U.S.A) THIRD PLACE &#8220;Quick! TV inspector&#8217;s coming&#8230;&#8221; (submitted by Andres, London, UK) Many congratulations to Amy Vail from Rochester New York for providing the winning caption and being the well deserved recipient of a Public Domain Review tote bag! For those wondering, the image is from Volume 1 of a 15th century Belgian manuscript entitled Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d&#8217;Angleterre (c.1470-1480) by Jean Wavrin, housed and digitised by the British Library (Royal 15 E IV). The picture is a detail from folio 52 showing Morbidus and the sea monster. Many thanks to the wonderful blog Demonagerie through which we stumbled across the image. Didn&#8217;t win this time? Worry not, try your hand again, in our Caption Competition #2! Learn more about The Public Domain Review Caption Competition by visiting the main competition page HERE. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10953
title: Blackboard Sketching (1909)
uri: Blackboard-Sketching-(1909)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/17/blackboard-sketching-1909/
content:
Blackboard Sketching, by Frederick Whitney; 1908; Milton Bradley, Springfield, Mass., New York. A book by Massachusetts based artist and teacher Frederik Whitney (1858-1949) on the lost art of blackboard drawing. As the introduction states: &#8220;Ability to draw easily and well on the blackboard is a power which every teacher of children covets. Such drawing is a language which never fails to hold attention and awaken delighted interest&#8221;. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: California Digital Library Underlying Work: PD U.S. &#038; PD 50 years &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: PDF &#124; Torrent HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10968
title: Ernst Haeckel’s Radiolaria (1862)
uri: Ernst-Haeckel-s-Radiolaria-(1862)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/19/ernst-haeckels-radiolaria-1862/
content:
According to Wikipedia Radiolaria are &#8220;protozoa of (diameter 0.1–0.2 mm) that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm. They are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean, and their skeletal remains make up a large part of the cover of the ocean floor as siliceous ooze.&#8221; In 1862 the German biologist, philosopher and artist Ernst Haeckel published an image laden monograph on these microscopic organisms, turning his eye and exquisite line to their intricate and varied forms. For more on Haeckel check out our article &#8220;Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture&#8221; by Dr Mario A. Di Gregorio, on Haeckel’s theory of “monism” which lies behind the mesmerising illustrations of his Kunstformen Der Natur. Housed at: Biodiversity Heritage Library &#124; From: Harvard University Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10957
title: Animated GIFs: Fleischer’s Bubbles (1922)
uri: Animated-GIFs-Fleischer-s-Bubbles-(1922)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/24/animated-gifs-fleischers-bubbles-1922/
content:
A series of animated GIFs excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from Max Fleischer&#8217;s Bubbles, part of his Out of the Inkwell series, which also includes The Tantalizing Fly. You can see the full film featured on the Internet Archive. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10963
title: Come Take a Trip in my Airship (1904)
uri: Come-Take-a-Trip-in-my-Airship-(1904)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/25/come-take-a-trip-on-my-airship-1904/
content:
Rendition by Welsh-born baritone singer J. W. Myers of a song written and composed in 1904 by fellow countryman George "Honey Boy" Evans. The song would go on to be recorded, with slight variations, by a string of popular musicians including Jonny Cash and more recently Natalie Merchant.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10960
title: Animated GIFs: Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908)
uri: Animated-GIFs-Émile-Cohl-s-Fantasmagorie-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/26/animated-gifs-emile-cohls-fantasmagorie-1908/
content:
A series of animated GIFs excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from the French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl&#8217;s Fantasmagorie. Made in 1908, this hand-drawn animation is considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon. Despite appearances it is not created on a blackboard but rather on paper, the blackboard effect achieved by shooting each of the 700 drawings onto negative film. The title is a reference to the “fantasmograph”, a mid-19th century variant of the magic lantern that projected ghostly images on to surrounding walls. You can see the full film featured in our Films collection here. See more creations from Okkult Motion Pictures here in our Animated GIFs Collection. Okkult Motion Pictures is the brainchild of Marco Calabrese and Alessandro Scali from Turin, Italy. With the Excerpts project, Okkult Motion Pictures aims to bring to light the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright moving images occulted in Internet archives, through a series of animated gifs. A digital archivalism project for the diffusion of open knowledge. Okkult Motion Pictures official website: / Facebook / Twitter All Okkult animated GIFs published here under a CC-BY-SA license. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10961
title: Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908)
uri: Émile-Cohl-s-Fantasmagorie-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/26/emile-cohls-fantasmagorie-1908/
content:
An animated film by French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10975
title: The World According to Pitt
uri: The-World-According-to-Pitt
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/01/the-world-according-to-pitt/
content:
Jo Pugh, researcher at the UK National Archives, explores the newly digitised letters of former British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and his sister Hester, and how their contents shed an intimate light on one of the most politically influential families in British history.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10980
title: A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon
uri: A-Dangerous-Man-in-the-Pantheon
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/02/a-dangerous-man-in-the-pantheon/
content:
This October marks 300 years since the birth of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot. Although perhaps best known for co-founding the <em>Encylopédie</em>, Philipp Blom argues for the importance of Diderot's philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by his better remembered contemporaries Voltaire and Rousseau.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10987
title: Auto Polo (ca.1911)
uri: Auto-Polo-(ca-1911)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/03/auto-polo-ca-1911/
content:
Four photographs depicting dramatic scenes from an "auto polo" match, a version of polo played using cars rather than horses. The sport - thought to have been invented as a publicity stunt by a Ford automobile dealer from Topeka to sell Model Ts - was popular at fairs, exhibitions and sports venues across the United States and several areas in Europe from 1911 until the late 1920s.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10990
title: Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land
uri: Flowers-and-Pictures-of-the-Holy-Land
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/09/flowers-and-pictures-of-the-holy-land/
content:
A selection of pages from a remarkable book produced sometime in the 1890s, an album of full-page colour illustrations (what look to be chromolithographs) of landmark sites in the &#8220;Holy Land&#8221;, opposite to which are mounted arrangements of dried flowers picked from the location shown. The album is bound in boards of olive wood with inlaid border and leather spine. It was produced and sold by the publisher Boulos Meo at his antique shop at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. See more over at The Getty Research Institute. The Getty Research Institute Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10996
title: Two songs from Verdi’s La Traviata (1910)
uri: Two-songs-from-Verdi-s-La-Traviata-(1910)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/10/two-songs-from-verdis-la-traviata-1910/
content:
&#8220;Ah! fors&#8217;è lui&#8221; and &#8220;Sempre libera&#8221; from Act I of Giuseppe Verdi&#8217;s La Traviata performed by the Spanish singer Lucrezia Bori in August 1910 for Edison Records. Verdi&#8217;s opera in 3 acts has a libretto penned by Francesco Maria Piave and is based on La Dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Housed at: Internet Archive Underlying Work: PD 70 &#038; PD 50 Years &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: VBR MP3 HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10993
title: A Pamphlet on Verdi (1901)
uri: A-Pamphlet-on-Verdi-(1901)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/10/a-pamphlet-on-verdi-1901/
content:
A small pamphlet (in the series "Little journeys to the homes of great musicians") on the life of the Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi, beginning with a fictionalised account of his childhood meeting with his early patron Signior Barezzi and his eldest daughter Margherita, with whom Verdi ended up falling in love.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11002
title: Caption Competition #2
uri: Caption-Competition-2
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/11/caption-competition-2/
content:
“When I said I wanted a crowbar&#8230;” AND THE WINNER IS&#8230; FIRST PLACE “When I said I wanted a crowbar&#8230;” (submitted by Ollie Mustill, from London, UK) SECOND PLACE &#8220;When you can snatch a bird out of the sky by skewering it with a blunt pole, your training will be complete, Fido-san.&#8221; (submitted by John Durvin, from Atlanta, U.S.A) THIRD PLACE &#8220;These new magic sticks are rubbish &#8211; all mine does is attract crows. How&#39;s yours worked out?&#8221; (submitted by Cambridge Caption, @camcaption) Many congratulations to Ollie Mustill from London, UK, for providing the winning caption and being the well deserved recipient of a Public Domain Review tote bag! Didn&#8217;t win this time? Worry not, try your hand again, in the Caption Competition #3 to be launched next week! Learn more about The Public Domain Review Caption Competition by visiting the main competition page HERE. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11005
title: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1785)
uri: Samuel-Johnson-s-Dictionary-of-the-English-Language-(1785)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/15/samuel-johnsons-dictionary-of-the-english-language-1785/
content:
Volume 1 of the 6th edition of Samuel Johnson’s epic achievement A Dictionary of the English Language, published a year after his death in 1785.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11008
title: Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World
uri: Elizabeth-Bisland-s-Race-Around-the-World
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/16/elizabeth-bislands-race-around-the-world/
content:
Matthew Goodman explores the life and writings of Elizabeth Bisland, an American journalist propelled into the limelight when she set out in 1889 – head-to-head with fellow journalist Nellie Bly – on a journey to beat Phileas Fogg’s fictitious 80-day circumnavigation of the globe.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11014
title: The Sketchbooks of Jacques-Louis David
uri: The-Sketchbooks-of-Jaques-Louis-David
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/22/the-sketchbooks-of-jaques-louis-david/
content:
Selections from &#8220;Album 11&#8243;, a sketchbook belonging to the French neoclassical painter and revolutionary Jacques-Louis David. The sketches are from his student years in Rome in the 1770s, a time in which he became obsessed with the ancient and Renaissance art to be found in the city. During this period he made well over 1000 &#8220;Roman sketches&#8221; and relied on them as a visual resource throughout his career. Once returned to Paris, David dismantled his sketchbooks and reorganised the leaves into albums according to type, numbering 12 in total. This 11th album &#8211; held by the Getty Research Institute and included in The Getty&#8217;s Open Content program &#8211; is mainly concerned with studies of the bas-reliefs and sculptures from prominent Italian collections, including the ancient Roman paintings unearthed in Pompeii and Herculaneum. David was arguably the most influential European artist of the late 18th century, his thoughtful style of &#8220;history painting&#8221; marking a change in the moral climate at a crucial time in European history: the end of the Ancien Regime and birth of the French Revolution. David, a close friend of the revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre, was an active supporter of the French Revolution (he voted for the execution [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11017
title: An Account of a Chinese Cabinet (1753)
uri: An-Account-of-a-Chinese-Cabinet-(1753)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/23/an-account-of-a-chinese-cabinet-1753/
content:
&#8220;A Further Account of What Was Contain&#8217;d in the Chinese Cabinet&#8221;, by Hans Sloane, M. D. from Philosophical Transactions, January 1753; London. An account by Sir Hans Sloane detailing the contents of a Chinese cabinet (which includes a &#8220;Sea Horse Tooth&#8221;) procured by a Mr Buckley during travels in China. A physician by trade Sloane was also an avid collector of natural curiosities and upon his death, bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the nation and, together with George II&#8217;s royal library, it was opened to the public as the British Museum in 1759. A note at the end of this account, which appears in the January 1753 accounts of the Royal Society (the same month that Sloane would pass away), praises the collecting of Mr Buckley: It were to be wished other travellers into Foreign parts would make such enquiries (as Mr Buckly [sic] who sent these to the Royal Society has done) into the Instruments and Materials made use of in the places where they come, that are any manner of way for the Benefit or innocent delight of Mankind, that we may content our selves with our own Inventions, where we go beyond them, and imitate [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11019
title: Tommy Burns knocking out Bill Squires (1907)
uri: Tommy-Burns-knocking-out-Bill-Squires-(1907)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/24/tommy-burns-knocking-out-bill-squires-1907/
content:
A Miles Brothers film of the legendary heavyweight prize boxing match between Bill Squires and Tommy Burns, played out at Ocean View, California, on July 4th 1907. Weighing in at a measly 178 pounds, the 5&#8217;7&#8243; Canadian Burns was a 10-1 underdog against Australia&#8217;s Bill Squires who was coming off a 20 consecutive knockout streak. To the shock of all present, this mismatch came to an unexpected end in the first round when Burns KO&#8217;d Squires in one of the fastest knockouts in the history of boxing up to that point. The fight was labeled the &#8220;shortest and fiercest contest on record&#8221;. Burns would go on to secure a reputation for knocking out the biggest men in the sport. He wrote, in a book brought out in 1908, about how the face of boxing was changing, no longer being about brute strength but speed: &#8220;In modern boxing speed is nearly everything, and I have always considered my success to be primarily due to the fact that lacrosse and hockey had taught me to be spry and smart on my feet before I ever thought of donning a pair of boxing gloves.&#8221; Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: The Library of [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11026
title: Jap Herron: A Novel written from the Ouija Board (1917)
uri: Jap-Herron-A-Novel-written-from-the-Ouija-Board-(1917)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/29/jap-herron-a-novel-written-from-the-ouija-board-1917/
content:
Jap Herron,  the novel written, supposedly, by a deceased Mark Twain from beyond the grave, dictated via the medium of a Ouija board.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11025
title: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Heretic’s Heretic
uri: Alfred-Russel-Wallace-a-Heretic-s-Heretic
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/30/alfred-russel-wallace-a-heretics-heretic/
content:
On the centenary of his death, Michael A. Flannery looks back at how Alfred Russel Wallace's take on evolution, which radically reintroduced notions of purpose and design, still speaks to us in a post-Darwin world where problems of sentience and of the origin of life remain, some would argue, as intractable as ever.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11035
title: Phenomena of Materialisation (1923)
uri: Phenomena-of-Materialisation-(1923)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/31/phenomena-of-materialisation-1923/
content:
Phenomena of Materialisation, a contribution to the investigation of mediumistic teleplastics, by Baron von Schrenck Notzing, translated by E. E. Fournier d&#8217;Albe; 1923; K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, E. P. Dutton in London, New York. English translation of Phenomena of Materialisation, a book by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing which focuses on a series of séances witnessed between the years 1909 and 1913 involving the French medium Eva Carrière, or Eva C. Born Marthe Béraud, Carrière changed her name in 1909 to begin her career afresh after a series of seances she held in 1905 were exposed as a fraud. Her psychic performances as Eva C gained the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery series, who believed she was genuine, and also Harry Houdini, who was not so convinced. Another researcher who became interested in her case was Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. A series of tests he devised between the years 1909 and 1913 convinced him that Eva C was the real deal and in 1913 he published his Phenomena of Materialisation detailing the sessions and the reasons for his belief. It has been noted that these sessions with Schrenck-Notzing verged on the [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11030
title: Photographs from a séance with Eva Carrière (1913)
uri: Photographs-from-a-séance-with-Eva-Carrière-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/31/photographs-from-a-seance-with-eva-carriere-1913/
content:
This remarkable series of photographs are from a book entitled Phenomena of Materialisation by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing. The book focuses on a series of séances that Schrenck-Notzing witnessed between the years 1909 and 1913 involving the French medium Eva Carrière, or Eva C. Born Marthe Béraud, Carrière changed her name in 1909 to begin her career afresh after a series of seances she held in 1905 were exposed as a fraud. Her psychic performances as Eva C gained the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery series, who believed she was genuine, and also Harry Houdini, who was not so convinced. Another researcher who became interested in her case was Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. A series of tests he devised between the years 1909 and 1913 convinced him that Eva C was the real deal and in 1913 he published his Phenomena of Materialisation detailing the sessions and the reasons for his belief. It has been noted that these sessions with Schrenck-Notzing verged on the pornographic. Carrière&#8217;s assistant (and reported lover) Juliette Bisson would, during the course of the séance sittings with Schrenck-Notzing, introduce her finger into Carrière&#8217;s vagina to ensure [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11039
title: The Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson
uri: The-Manuscripts-of-Emily-Dickinson
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/05/the-manuscripts-of-emily-dickinson/
content:
Mike Kelly, curator at the Archives and Special Collections of Amherst College, explores highlights from their Emily Dickinson collection, a huge variety of manuscript forms - from concert programmes to chocolate wrappers - which give us a fascinating insight into how the poet worked.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11090
title: Wear Celluloid Collars and Cuffs (ca.1870)
uri: Wear-Celluloid-Collars-and-Cuffs-(ca-1870)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/07/wear-celluloid-collars-and-cuffs-ca-1870/
content:
A charming set of 19th Century American trade cards, advertising - via the medium of a frog and gnome-like character - collars and cuffs made of a waterproof linen (celluloid).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11124
title: Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff
uri: Lost-in-Translation-Proust-and-Scott-Moncrieff
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/13/lost-in-translation-proust-and-scott-moncrieff/
content:
Scott Moncrieff's English translation of Proust's <em>A la recherche du temps perdu</em> is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title as <em>Remembrance of Things Past</em> is not, however, considered a high point. William C. Carter explores the two men's correspondence on this somewhat sticky issue and how the Shakespearean title missed the mark regarding Proust's theory of memory.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11127
title: Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)
uri: Paintings-in-Proust-(Vol-1-Swann-s-Way)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/14/paintings-in-proust-vol-1-swanns-way/
content:
As a celebration of the centennial of the publication  of <em>Du côté de chez Swann</em> (Swann's Way), the first volume of Marcel Proust's <em>A la recherche du temps perdu</em>, we have put together a few highlights of the many mentions of artworks to be found in the first volume, <em>Swann's Way</em>, in which the narrator recounts his experiences growing up, participating in society, falling in love, and learning about art.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11145
title: Robert Cornelius’ self-portrait: The First Ever “Selfie” (1839)
uri: Robert-Cornelius-self-portrait-The-First-Ever-Selfie-(1839)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/19/robert-cornelius-self-portrait-the-first-ever-selfie-1839/
content:
Today the Oxford Dictionaries announced their word of the year for 2013 to be “selfie”, which they define as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” Although it&#8217;s current rampant incarnation is quite recent, the &#8220;selfie&#8221; is far from being a strictly modern phenomenon. Indeed, the photographic self-portrait is surprisingly common in the very early days of photography exploration and invention, when it was often more convenient for the experimenting photographer to act as model as well. In fact, the picture considered by many to be the first photographic portrait ever taken was a &#8220;selfie&#8221;. The image in question was taken in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia named Robert Cornelius. Cornelius had set his camera up at the back of the family store in Philadelphia. He took the image by removing the lens cap and then running into frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again. On the back he wrote &#8220;The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.&#8221; Housed at: Wikimedia Commons &#124; From: Library of Congress Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11141
title: W.F. Hooley reads Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1898)
uri: W-F-Hooley-reads-Lincoln-s-Gettysburg-Address-(1898)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/19/w-f-hooley-reads-lincolns-gettysburg-address-1898/
content:
150 years ago today, on November 19th 1863, President Lincoln delivered his famous speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg Civil War Cemetery, a cemetery set up to house and honour the dead from one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War which had taken place four months earlier (the sad aftermath of which is pictured above in a photograph by Timothy H. O&#8217;Sullivan). Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s carefully crafted address was in fact meant to be secondary to other presentations that day, following on as it did from a two hour speech by the orator Edward Everett. Although Lincoln&#8217;s was only just over two minutes long in it&#8217;s delivery, it came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In it&#8217;s short span, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with &#8220;a new birth of freedom,&#8221; that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. Lincoln also managed to redefine the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality. [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11148
title: Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)
uri: Fortunio-Liceti-s-Monsters-(1665)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/20/fortunio-licetis-monsters-1665/
content:
Highlights from the illustrations in the 1665 edition of Fortunio Liceti&#8217;s De Monstris, originally published, without the illustrations, in 1616. Liceti&#8217;s work, although not the first on the topic of deformities in nature, was perhaps the most influential of the period. In the wake of the book there was a huge rise in interest throughout Europe in &#8220;monstrosities&#8221;: pygmies, supposed mermaids, deformed fetuses, and other natural marvels were put on display and widely discussed, becoming the circus freak-shows of their time. However, unlike many of his contemporaries Licenti did not see deformity as something negative, as the result of errors or failures in the course of nature. Instead he likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable. &#8216;It is said that I see the convergence of both Nature and art,&#8217; wrote Liceti, &#8216;because one or the other not being able to make what they want, they at least make what they can.&#8221; Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: Pending Clarification Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11158
title: Caption Competition #3
uri: Caption-Competition-3
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/21/caption-competition-3/
content:
“Sir Joshua Kindell’s reading device offers paperwhite pages and stores up to 12 books. Carry case available.” AND THE WINNER IS&#8230; FIRST PLACE “Sir Joshua Kindell’s reading device offers paperwhite pages and stores up to 12 books. Carry case available.” (submitted by Andrew Chapman, Oxfordshire, UK) SECOND PLACE An early depiction of a device for torturing book-lovers, known as &#8220;The Complete Works of Dan Brown&#8221; (submitted by Conductor71) THIRD PLACE Now if we can get this a wee bit smaller, we might have a chance against these ebook-readers… (submitted by Michael Hinkel, Heidelberg, Germany) Many congratulations to Andrew Chapman from Oxfordshire, UK, for providing the winning caption and being the well deserved recipient of a Public Domain Review tote bag! Learn more about The Public Domain Review Caption Competition by visiting the main competition page HERE. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11161
title: Time and Place: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942)
uri: Time-and-Place-Eric-Ravilious-(1903-1942)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/27/time-and-place-eric-ravilious-1903-1942/
content:
In many countries around the world the works of Eric Ravilious have come out of copyright this year – he died when his aircraft went missing off Iceland while he was making war paintings. An artist in multiple disciplines, his greater legacy dwells in water-colours. Frank Delaney re-visits the work of this understated, yet significant figure.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11170
title: The Chinese Fairy Book (1921)
uri: The-Chinese-Fairy-Book-(1921)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11/28/the-chinese-fairy-book-1921/
content:
A book compiling seventy-four traditional Chinese folk takes, making, as the translator notes, "probably the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers".


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11172
title: Music manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries in the British Library
uri: Music-manuscripts-from-the-17th-and-18th-centuries-in-the-British-Libr
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/03/music-manuscripts-from-the-17th-and-18th-centuries-in-the-british-library/

content:
CURATOR&#8217;S CHOICE #6: SANDRA TUPPEN FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY Sandra Tuppen, curator of Music Manuscripts at the British Library, explores some highlights from their digitised collection of music manuscripts, including those penned by the hand of Haydn, Handel, Purcell, and a very messy Beethoven. Ever since the earliest methods of notating music were devised, composers and scribes have written out music by hand – on vellum in the medieval period and subsequently on paper. (Only now is this beginning to change, with the advent of computer programs for music notation.) Even after the perfecting of music printing techniques in the 16th century, when music was printed using moveable type and later by engraving, and the burgeoning of a trade in music publishing, much music continued to be written out by hand and circulated in manuscript. Printing music was expensive, time-consuming and complex; copying out music by hand could be done relatively cheaply and quickly, especially when a few copies only of a particular composition were needed. In the 17th and 18th centuries, music was written out in manuscript for several purposes. These included the creation of ‘master copies’ from which further handwritten copies could be made when required, the provision [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11181
title: Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)
uri: Specimens-of-Chromatic-Wood-Type-and-Borders-(1874)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/04/specimens-of-chromatic-wood-type-and-borders-1874/
content:
Some select pages from the exquisite Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, Etc. (1874), a specimen book produced by the William H. Page wood type company. Chromatic types, which were made to print in two or more colours, were first produced as wood type by Edwin Allen, and shown by George Nesbitt in his 1841 Fourth Specimen of Machinery Cut Wood Type. It is William H Page&#8217;s book, however, that is considered to be the highpoint of chromatic wood type production. As well as providing over 100 pages of brilliantly coloured type, the book can also be seen, at times, to act as some sort of accidental experimental poetry volume, with such strange snippets as &#8220;Geographical excursion knives home&#8221; and &#8220;Numerous stolen mind&#8221; adorning its pages. One wonders whether the decisions about what words to feature and in what order were entirely arbitrary. Thanks to the wonderful Bibliodyssey blog where we came across the book: visit the post there for more info on the book and a great list of related links. Housed at: Internet Archive &#124; From: Columbia University Libraries Found via: Bibliodyssey Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11184
title: Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician (1769)
uri: Account-of-a-Very-Remarkable-Young-Musician-(1769)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/05/account-of-a-very-remarkable-young-musician-1769/
content:
Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician. In a Letter from the Honourable Daines Barrington, F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.; 1770; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of history&#8217;s most famous composers, began showing his talents when he was just 3 years old. By the age of 6 he was touring with his father and elder sister, also a talented musician. It was the young Mozart however who wowed the audiences. After a concert at the court of the Prince-elector Maximilian III of Bavaria in Munich, and at the Imperial Court in Vienna and Prague, the Mozart family embarked on a 3 and half year concert tour around the courts of Munich, Mannheim, Paris, London, The Hague, again to Paris, and back home via Zurich, Donaueschingen, and Munich. While in London, an 8 year old Mozart proved a huge sensation. But with his child prodigy status came questions from a skeptical few. Was he really so young? Was he really that talented? One person eager to test the truth of these doubts was Daines Barrington, a lawyer, antiquary, naturalist and Friend of the Royal Society. In a few visits [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11174
title: Class of 2014
uri: Class-of-2014
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/10/class-of-2014/
content:
Our top pick of people whose works will, on 1st January 2014, be entering the public domain in those countries with a 'life plus 70 years' copyright term, including Beatrix Potter, Nikola Tesla and Fats Waller.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11188
title: Encounter at the crossroads of Europe – the fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren
uri: Encounter-at-the-crossroads-of-Europe-the-fellowship-of-Zweig-and
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/11/encounter-at-the-crossroads-of-europe-the-fellowship-of-zweig-and-verhaeren/

content:
Stefan Zweig, whose works passed into the public domain this year in many countries around the world, was one of the most famous writers of the 1920s and 30s. Will Stone explores the importance of the Austrian's early friendship with the oft overlooked Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11197
title: Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)
uri: Edward-Lear-s-Walk-on-a-Windy-Day-(1860)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/12/edward-lears-walk-on-a-windy-day-1860/
content:
An Edward Lear story concerning a man, referred to simply as E.L., taking the grave risk of going out for a walk on a windy day and living the consequences. These ten rare sketches are in a bound edition living in the Frederick R. Koch Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Yale University. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11206
title: Hand coloured photographs of 19th century Japan
uri: Hand-coloured-photographs-of-19th-century-Japan
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/17/19th-century-hand-coloured-photos-of-japan/
content:
A selection from a series of 42 hand coloured albumine prints &#8211; a process which used the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper &#8211; taken around 1880. The presence of the pictures in the Dutch National Archieff reflects a long relationship between Japan and the Netherlands, the result of an exclusive commercial relationship that would last for more than two centuries (1641-1855). Housed at: Flickr: The Commons &#124; From: Nationaal Archieff Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions The following pictures from the collections of the Library of Congress are by the Italian–British photographer Felice Beato (probably also the creator of the images above), one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. Library of Congress Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11209
title: The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million
uri: The-British-Library-s-Mechanical-Curator-million
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/19/the-british-librarys-mechanical-curator-million/
content:
Last week the ever-incredible British Library announced that they were gifting more than 1 million images to the world, uploaded to Flickr Commons under the public domain mark, meaning complete freedom of re-use. The range and breadth of images is phenomenal. As they say in their post announcing the release the &#8220;images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of&#8221;. Each image was extracted from its respective home (books making up a total of 65,000 already digitised volumes) by a program known as the &#8216;Mechanical Curator&#8217;, a creation of the British Library Labs project. A crowdsourcing application is being launched in the new year (likely using tools developed by our very own Open Knowledge Foundation!) to help describe what the images portray &#8211; and the British Library is also putting out a general plea for people to innovate new ways to navigate, find and display this incredible array of images. (Email BL Labs here). Although, of course, it will one day be wonderful to be able to sort and filter these images into [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11226
title: Stereoscopic Victorian Christmas GIFs
uri: Stereoscopic-Victorian-Christmas-GIFs
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/22/stereoscopic-victorian-christmas-gifs/
content:
A series of animated GIFs made from Victorian christmas stereographs found in the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=stereograph+christmas" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11231
title: Letters to my sister of our experiences on our first trip to Europe, 1913
uri: Letters-to-my-sister-of-our-experiences-on-our-first-trip-to-Europe-1
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/29/letters-to-my-sister-of-our-experiences-on-our-first-trip-to-europe-1913/

content:
Letters to my sister of our experiences on our first trip to Europe 1913, by Lilian McCarron; publishing date most likely 1914, publisher unknown. A book of letters written by (the American or perhaps Canadian) Lilian McCarron to her sister detailing a trip she made around Europe in the latter half of 1913. A year later and Europe would be plunged into the beginnings of the First World War which would last 4 years and claim the lives of more than 9 million soldiers and devastate the lands on which it was played out. A certain sense of dramatic irony permeates the diary entries now, in which she describes the &#8220;pleasant&#8221; and &#8220;charming&#8221; cities of France and Germany, knowing as we do the horrors that would come in the following years. McCarron spends a large proportion of the trip in Germany, and in particular Berlin, arriving there only a few days after a military airship (a Zeppelin, the kind which would be instrumental in WW1) had crashed killing many experienced German Navy personnel. Her trip also coincided with the Empress&#8217;s birthday which saw much of the army on the streets, a sight which gave McCarron the impression that Berlin was [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11235
title: The History of the Ordinary
uri: The-History-of-the-Ordinary
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/07/the-history-of-the-ordinary/
content:
CURATOR&#8217;S CHOICE #7: LAURA BANG &#038; RUTH MARTIN FROM VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND DIGITAL LIBRARY Laura Bang, curatorial assistant at Villanova University’s Special Collections and Digital Library, and Ruth Martin, Digital Library intern, explore an early 20th-century scrapbook put together by Company 62 of the New York City Fire Department. When most people think of the collections in museums, archives, and research libraries, they think of the grand collections &#8212; the papers of famous people, the documents of important events, the artifacts of significant artistic movements or time periods. However, much of history happens between big events, to ordinary people. Often these quotidian histories are overlooked. The Special Collections of Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library has its share of impressive holdings &#8212; one of the first things that most visitors notice upon entering the Rare Book Room is a Union Army frock coat that was worn by General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Library is well-known for the Joseph McGarrity Collection, which consists of books and personal papers relating to Irish and Irish-American history. Alongside the books and artifacts made remarkable by the famous names connected with them, however, we also have a good collection of items that document [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11234
title: Inside the Empty House: Sherlock Holmes, For King and Country
uri: Inside-the-Empty-House-Sherlock-Holmes-For-King-and-Country
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/08/inside-the-empty-house-sherlock-holmes-for-king-and-country/

content:
As a new series of BBC’s Sherlock revives the great detective after his apparent death at the hands of Moriarty in ‘The Empty Hearse’, Andrew Glazzard investigates the domestic and imperial subterfuge beneath the surface of Sherlock Holmes’s 1903 return to Baker Street in Conan Doyle’s ‘The Empty House’.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11245
title: Caption Competition #4
uri: Caption-Competition-4
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/09/caption-competition-4/
content:
Entries are now closed for the Caption Competition #4 and it&#8217;s time to pick a winner. From all the wonderful captions sent in we have chosen our Top 3 to be put before the public vote. Now it&#8217;s your turn. Just select the caption which you like the best using the button to the left and click the &#8220;Submit&#8221; button beneath. WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE CAPTION? Gilbert was uncertain as to how Leonor (*resigned face* ) would react to his latest Ann Summers purchase Yes Stuart, of course, it’s a perfectly normal part of the training process. I thought you asked if I had protection? Voting will stay open until 6th February when the winner will be announced. Learn more about The Public Domain Review Caption Competition by visiting the main competition page HERE. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11247
title: Rainbow coloured beasts from 15th century Book of Hours
uri: Rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-Book-of-Hours
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/09/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours/
content:
A selection of wonderful little illustrations found in a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th century. In the pages without full borders the margins have been decorated with an array of different images depicting flowers, birds, jewellery, animals, household utensils and these superb rainbow-coloured &#8216;grotesques&#8217;. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Found via: Demonagerie Underlying Work: PD Worldwide &#124; Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11251
title: Twelve Years a Slave (1859)
uri: Twelve-Years-a-Slave-(1859)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/14/twelve-years-a-slave-1859/
content:
The memoir by Solomon Northup upon which the recent much acclaimed feature film, <em>Twelve Years a Slave</em> directed by Steve McQueen, was based. The narrative tells the harrowing true story of Northup, who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11254
title: Scenes relating to the life of Charles IV, King of Spain (1788)
uri: Scenes-relating-to-the-life-of-Charles-IV-King-of-Spain-(1788)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/15/scenes-relating-to-the-life-of-charles-iv-king-of-spain-1788/

content:
Woodcut print showing forty-eight numbered scenes relating to the life of Charles IV, King of Spain.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11257
title: The Monster (1903)
uri: The-Monster-(1903)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/16/the-monster-1903/
content:
A 1903 film directed by French filmmaker Georges Méliès and, as is common with his films, starring the man himself. The story centres on the chaotic, and ultimately futile, attempt to bring a dead Egyptian Princess back to life.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11261
title: Selection from Wellcome Library’s release of 100k openly licensed images
uri: Selection-from-Wellcome-Library-s-release-of-100k-openly-licensed-im
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/20/selection-from-wellcome-librarys-release-of-100k-openly-licensed-images/

content:
This morning the Wellcome Library announced its release of 100,000 of its historical images under an open license (CC-BY &#8211; meaning they are free for any re-use provided that the Wellcome Library is credited). The range and quality of the images released is phenomenal. The collection covers more than a thousand years of imagery relating to the history of medicine, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements &#8211; from medieval Persian anatomy to the satirical prints of Rowlandson and Gillray. This move by the Wellcome is yet another recent example of a hugely respected institution releasing digitisations of its public domain content under an open license &#8211; with the last 6 months seeing The Getty and The British Library making similar moves. It&#8217;s a really promising sign of a more general shift toward opening up public domain content that we&#8217;ve seen taking place in the cultural sector over the last couple of years. Wonderful stuff! This selection from Wellcome&#8217;s release that we&#8217;ve chosen below is from just the first 1% of the 100,000 images made available. Remember, all are published under an CC-BY license so, if re-using, you must credit the &#8220;Wellcome Library, London&#8221;. Just click on the images [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11260
title: Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski
uri: Writing-his-Life-through-the-Other-The-Anthropology-of-Malinowksi
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/22/writing-his-life-through-the-other-the-anthropology-of-malinowski/

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Last year saw the works of Bronislaw Malinowski – father of modern anthropology – enter the public domain in many countries around the world. Michael W. Young explores the personal crisis plaguing the Polish-born anthropologist at the end of his first major stint of ethnographic immersion in the Trobriand Islands, a period of self-doubt glimpsed through entries in his diary – the most infamous, most nakedly honest document in the annals of social anthropology.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=11271
title: The Funny Alphabet (ca.1850)
uri: The-Funny-Alphabet-(ca-1850)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-funny-alphabet-ca-1850/
content:
A delightful little alphabet book in which the letters are made up from acrobatically contorted bodies, and the accompanying text from often as equally contorted rhymes.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/?p=11286
title: Ambassadors, milkmaids, and hot air balloons
uri: Ambassadors-milkmaids-and-hot-air-balloons
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ambassadors-milkmaids-and-hot-air-balloons/
content:
ZENTRALBIBLIOTHEK SOLOTHURN - Patrick Borer picks out some highlights from their collection of 18th-century prints and looks at what they tell us about life in a Swiss city state.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/?p=11297
title: A Relation of an Extraordinary Sleepy Person (ca.1698)
uri: A-Relation-of-an-Extraordinary-Sleepy-Person-(ca-1698)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/06/a-relation-of-an-extraordinary-sleepy-person-ca-1698/
content:
A Royal Society paper describing a bizarre case of a man who would periodically fall into a "profound sleep" from which no-one could wake him for a months.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/?p=11306
title: George Wither’s Emblem Book (1635)
uri: George-Wither-s-Emblem-Book-(1635)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/13/george-withers-emblem-book-1635/
content:
The emblem book of English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist George Wither (1588 - 1667). Wither was employed by a London publisher called Henry Taunton to write English verses to illustrative the beautiful allegorical plates made by <a href="https://archive.org/details/gabrielisrollenh00roll" target="_blank">Gabriel Rollenhagen and Crispin van Passe</a> more than 20 years earlier.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/?p=11309
title: The Little Book of Love
uri: The-Little-Book-of-Love
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/14/the-little-book-of-love/
content:
A Valentine's gift to top all Valentine's gifts - the <em>Petit Livre d’Amour</em> (Little Book of Love) was an ornate bespoke book given by the 16th-century Lyon-born poet Pierre Salas to his then lover and future wife Marguerite Bullioud.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/?p=11315
title: The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics
uri: THE-FOUNDING-FATHERS-v-THE-CLIMATE-CHANGE-SKEPTICS
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/19/the-founding-fathers-v-the-climate-change-skeptics/
content:
When claims from Europe accused British America of being inferior on account of its colder weather, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers responded with patriotic zeal that their settlement was actually causing the climate to warm. Raphael Calel explores how, in contrast to today's common association of the U.S. with climate change skepticism, it was a very different story in the 18th century.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?p=11810
title: Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death
uri: Frederik-Ruysch-The-Artist-of-Death
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/05/frederik-ruysch-the-artist-of-death/
content:
Luuc Kooijmans explores the work of Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, known for his remarkable ‘still life’ displays which blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?p=11836
title: Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia
uri: Victorian-Occultism-and-the-Art-of-Synesthesia
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/19/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia/
content:
Grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Thought-Forms (1901) is an odd and intriguing work. Benjamin Breen explores these “synesthetic” abstractions and asks to what extent they, and the Victorian mysticism of which they were born, influenced the Modernist movement that flourished in the following decades.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?p=11864
title: Darkness Over All: John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy
uri: Darkness-Over-All-John-Robison-and-the-Birth-of-the-Illuminati-Conspi
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/04/02/darkness-over-all-john-robison-and-the-birth-of-the-illuminati-conspiracy/

content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11867
title: Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library
uri: Highlights-from-the-20-000-maps-made-freely-available-online-by-New-Y
content: The New York Public Library have made available online, free from all restrictions…
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/highlights-from-the-20000-maps-made-freely-available-online-by-new-york-public-library/


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11852
title: Recordings of Pygmy Music from the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission
uri: Recordings-of-Pygmy-Music-from-the-1946-Ogooué-Congo-Mission
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/recordings-of-pygmy-music-from-the-1946-ogooue-congo-mission/

content:
A series of recordings made in 1946 as part of the “Ogooué-Congo” mission, a French scientific expedition led by ethnologist Noël Ballif through Middle-Congo and Gabon with a purpose to discover and study the Pygmy peoples.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11832
title: The Home Movies of Frank Richard Oastler
uri: The-Home-Movies-of-Frank-Richard-Oastler
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-home-movies-of-frank-richard-oastler/
content:
The Home Movies of Frank Richard Oastler, an American surgeon specialising in gynaecology by profession but also a keen amateur photographer, scholar, and authority on wildlife conservation and its interpretation to the public.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11826
title: Women Painters of the World: from the time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur (1905)
uri: Women-Painters-of-the-World-from-the-time-of-Caterina-Vigri-to-Rosa-B
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/women-painters-of-the-world-from-the-time-of-caterina-vigri-to-rosa-bonheur-1905/

content:
A book on women painters throughout history, from the time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur. includes a rather lavish preface by Walter Shaw Sparrow and various essays on the "genius" of women.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11818
title: The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)
uri: The-Hermit-or-The-Unparalleled-Sufferings-and-Surprising-Adventures
content: The hermit or, The unparalleled sufferings, and surprising adventures, of Philip…
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-hermit-or-the-unparalleled-sufferings-and-surprising-adventures-of-philip-quarll-1814/


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11803
title: The Writings of J.F. Martinet (1729-1795)
uri: The-Writings-of-J-F-Martinet-(1729-1795)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-writings-of-j-f-martinet-1729-1795/
content:
KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK - Marieke van Delft discusses some works by the prolific writer Johannes Florentius Martinet (1729-1795), digitized in the Early Dutch Books Online (EDBO) Project.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11792
title: Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)
uri: Portraits-of-Patients-from-Surrey-County-Asylum-(ca-1855)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/portraits-of-patients-from-surrey-county-asylum-ca-1855/
content:
Photographic portraits taken by Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond of patients from Surrey County Asylum in England where he worked as a psychiatrist.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11902
title: Fashions of the Future as Imagined in 1893
uri: Fashions-of-the-Future-as-Imagined-in-1893
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fashions-of-the-future-as-imagined-in-1893/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11910
title: Mary and Gretel (1917)
uri: Mary-and-Gretel-(1917)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mary-and-gretel-1917/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11915
title: Mister Fox (1870)
uri: Mister-Fox-(1870)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mister-fox-1870/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11923
title: Arthur Coga’s Blood Transfusion (1667)
uri: Arthur-Coga-s-Blood-Transfusion-(1667)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/arthur-cogas-blood-transfusion-1667/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?p=11922
title: 1592: Coining Columbus
uri: 1592-Coining-Columbus
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/04/16/1592-coining-columbus/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11933
title: Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance (1922)
uri: Shtetl-My-Destroyed-Home-A-Remembrance-(1922)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/shtetl-my-destroyed-home-a-remembrance-1922/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?p=11948
title: John L. Sullivan Fights America
uri: John-L-Sullivan-Fights-America
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/04/30/john-l-sullivan-fights-america/
content:
In 1883, the Irish-American heavy-weight boxing champion John L. Sullivan embarked on an unprecedented coast-to-coast tour of the United States offering a prize to any man who could endure four rounds with him in the ring. Christopher Klein tells of this remarkable journey and how the railroads and the rise of the popular press proved instrumental in forging Sullivan into America's first sports superstar.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okblogfarm.org/?post_type=collections&p=11964
title: Cuttings from a Medieval Italian Choirbook
uri: Cuttings-from-a-Medieval-Italian-Choirbook
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cuttings-from-a-medieval-italian-choirbook/
content:
THE BRITISH LIBRARY - James Freeman explores cuttings from a huge 14th century Italian choirbook and how digital technology is now helping scholars build a picture of the once intact original through virtually reuniting the "diaspora" of fragments.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okfn.org/?post_type=collections&p=11950
title: Living Lights: a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)
uri: Living-Lights-a-Popular-Account-of-Phosphorescent-Animals-and-Vegetab
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/living-lights-a-popular-account-of-phosphorescent-animals-and-vegetables-1887/

content:
A beautifully illustrated book all about creatures endowed with the remarkable ability to produce and emit light: what we now call "bioluminescence".


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=8730
title: Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript
uri: Punishment-in-the-Afterlife-an-Eastern-Turki-Manuscript
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/punishment-in-the-afterlife-an-eastern-turki-manuscript/
content:
Fragments of a manuscript, written in the Eastern Turki language, depicting the fate of sinners in the afterlife.


feed_id: http://pdr.staging.okblogfarm.org/?p=11982
title: In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book
uri: In-the-Image-of-God-John-Comenius-and-the-First-Children-s-Picture
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/05/14/in-the-image-of-god-john-comenius-and-the-first-childrens-picture-book/

content:
In the mid 17th-century John Comenius published what many consider to be the first picture book dedicated to the education of young children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus - or The World of Things Obvious to the Senses drawn in Pictures, as it was rendered in English. Charles McNamara explores how, contrary to Comenius' declarations, the book can be seen to be as much about the invisible world as the visible.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12020
title: The New York World’s Fair, 1939-40
uri: The-New-York-World-s-Fair-1939-40
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/new-york-worlds-fair-1939-40/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12028
title: Mimes by Marcel Schwob (1901)
uri: Mimes-by-Marcel-Schwob-(1901)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mimes-by-marcel-schwob-1901/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12031
title: An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca.1650)
uri: An-Alphabet-of-Organic-Type-(ca-1650)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/an-alphabet-of-organic-type-ca-1650/
content:
A stunning series of letterforms designed in the mid-17th century, writhing forms which hover somewhere between the monstrous and floral


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12034
title: The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne
uri: The-Naturalist-and-the-Neurologist-On-Charles-Darwin-and-James-Cricht
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/05/28/the-naturalist-and-the-neurologist-on-charles-darwin-and-james-crichton-browne/

content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12039
title: The Adventures of Cinderella (ca.1810)
uri: The-Adventures-of-Cinderella-(ca-1810)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-adventures-of-cinderella-ca-1810/
content:
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).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12053
title: The Wellcome Library’s Top 10 Open Images
uri: The-Wellcome-Library-s-Top-10-Open-Images
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-wellcome-librarys-top-10-open-images/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12061
title: Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000
uri: Leaving-the-Opera-in-the-Year-2000
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000/
content:
A 19th-century vision of leaving the opera in the year 2000 - a print created in 1882 by the French illustrator, caricaturist, novelist, and all around futurologist, Albert Robida.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12072
title: Tesseract (2013)
uri: Teseract-(2013)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/teseract-2013/
content:
An ostrich runs inside a turning tesseract above the hands of a woman. Animated GIF created by Bill Domonkos.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12079
title: Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa (1858)
uri: Mungo-Park-s-Travels-in-the-Interior-of-Africa-(1858)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mungo-parks-travels-in-the-interior-of-africa-1858/
content:
First published in 1799, this remarkable book is the Scottish explorer Mungo Park's account of his journey through Senegal and Mali to the central portion of the Niger River, the first time a Westerner is known to have reached such central regions.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12082
title: Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction
uri: Moonblight-and-Six-Feet-of-Romance-Dan-Carter-Beard-s-Foray-into-Fi
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/06/11/moonblight-and-six-feet-of-romance/
content:
An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of disembodied feet galavanting about the countryside - Abigail Walthausen explores the brief but strange literary career of Daniel Carter Beard, illustrator for Mark Twain and a founding father of the Boy Scouts of America.


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title: The Physiognomy of Hands (1917)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-physiognomy-of-hands-1917/
content:
Pages 317 and 318 from a book titled Analyzing character, the new science of judging men: misfits in business, the home and social life (1917) by Katherine M. H. Blackford, M.D. and Arthur Newcomb.


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title: A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)
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content: A groundbreaking work which marked the beginning of an awareness of need for food safety oversight.
url:
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title:
The Man Who Recovered the Use of His Tongue, after Four Years Dumb, by means of a Frightful Dream (1747)

url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-man-who-recovered-the-use-of-his-tongue-after-four-years-dumb-by-means-of-a-frightful-dream-1747/

content:
An account of an interesting case involving a man from Wiltshire being cured from many years of speechlessness through the fright arising from a nightmare.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12103
title: Picturing Pyrotechnics
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/06/25/picturing-pyrotechnics/
content:
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.


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title: The Centaurs, a Fragment (1921)
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content:
The only surviving fragment of Winsor McCay's now lost <em>The Centaurs</em>, produced in 1921 by Rialto Productions.


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title: Markham’s Masterpiece
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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.


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title: Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)
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The truly gigantic monument planned by the Bilboan architect Alberto Palacio designed for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in honour of Christopher Columbus.


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title: Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century
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http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/manipulus-vocabulorum-a-rhyming-dictionary-from-the-16th-century/

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A facsimile edition from 1867 of the very first rhyming dictionary, produced by Peter Levins in 1570.


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title: Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)
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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").


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title: Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater vs. Idylls of Rathoongodde
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/09/julia-margaret-cameron-in-ceylon-idylls-of-freshwater-vs-idylls-of-rathoongodde/

content:
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.


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title: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)
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content:
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.


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title: Little Tich and his Big Boot Dance (1900)
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Filmed in 1900 and released 1903, this film directed by Clément Maurice, shows the English performer Little Tich performing his famous "Big Boot Dance".


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title: Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)
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url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/japanese-prints-of-western-inventors-artists-and-scholars-1873/

content:
A set of Japanese prints depicting famous Western inventors and scholars - including Audubon, Carlyle, Watt, and Arkright - beset by various difficulties.


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title: Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/dame-talkatives-old-sayings-ca-1824/
content:
A book of wonderfully illustrated rhymes which, although they appear to be for children, often veer into the world of more adult themes.


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title: High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910)
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url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/high-frequency-electric-currents-in-medicine-and-dentistry-1910/

content:
A selection of images from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell who claimed his high frequency currents of electricity could treat a variety of ailments, including acne, lesions, insomnia, abnormal blood pressure, depression, and hysteria.


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title: The Tale of Beatrix Potter
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/23/the-tale-of-beatrix-potter/
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This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck  - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name Beatrix Potter have sold close to 200 million copies. Frank Delaney enquires into the more complex woman behind the safe and warm-hearted stories.


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title: John Wanamaker recounts a Leo Tolstoy anecdote (1908)
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Recording of the U.S. merchant, religious leader, and politician, John Wanamaker, recounting an anecdote of Leo Tolstoy, the man he banned as U.S. Postmaster General 18 years prior.


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title: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)
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content:
Selected double-page spreads from Adriaen Coenen's exquisite Visboek (Fish Book), an epic 800 page tome on all things fish and fish-related. Coenen began work on this unique book in 1577, at the age of 63, and in three years gathered an unprecedented amount of information on the sea and its coasts, coastal waters, fishing grounds and marine animals.


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title: Made in the Trenches: a WW1 Magazine Created by Soldiers (1916)
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http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/made-in-the-trenches-a-ww1-magazine-created-by-soldiers-1916/

content:
A magazine-style book created in 1916 and composed entirely of articles and sketches contributed by British soldiers fighting on the front lines - an eclectic mix of stories, poems, cartoons and, littered at regular intervals throughout, a comic series of encyclopaedic entries for military terms.


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title: Cabinet Card Photographs from the Harvard Theatre Collection
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HOUGHTON LIBRARY, HARVARD UNIVERISTY - John Overholt shines a spotlight on a few examples from the eclectic lot of cabinet card photographs found in the Harvard Theatre Collection, a series of images which are currently making their way onto Wikimedia Commons courtesy of the Wikipedian in Residence scheme.


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title: “O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/08/06/o-excellent-air-bag-humphry-davy-and-nitrous-oxide/
content:
The summer of 1799 saw a new fad take hold in one remarkable circle of British society: the inhalation of "Laughing Gas". The overseer and pioneer of these experiments was a young Humphry Davy, future President of the Royal Society. Mike Jay explores how Davy's extreme and near-fatal regime of self-experimentation with the gas not only marked a new era in the history of science but a turn toward the philosophical and literary romanticism of the century to come.


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title: Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
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content:
A short adaptation in nine scenes from the Edison Manufacturing Company of the popular fairytale "Jack and the Beanstalk", directed by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter and starring Thomas White as Jack.


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title: The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)
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url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-london-guide-and-strangers-safeguard-against-the-cheats-swindlers-and-pickpockets-1819/

content:
A comprehensive guide to help the unwitting visitor avoid falling victim to the various and nefarious crimes abound in early 19th-century London.


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title: Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images
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url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/highlights-from-folger-shakespeare-librarys-release-of-almost-80000-images/

content:
Highlights from the Folger Shakespeare Library's Digital Image Collection, released now under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license.


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title: The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled – including that of the Learned Pig (1805)
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url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-expositor-or-many-mysteries-unravelled-including-that-of-the-learned-pig-1805/

content:
A wonderful book amounting to something akin to an early 19th-century version of the Masked Magician, in which the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day are exposed, including that of the Learned Pig.


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title: Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/08/20/redressing-the-balance-levinus-vincents-wonder-theatre-of-nature/

content:
Bert van de Roemer explores the curiosity cabinets of the Dutch collector Levinus Vincent and how the aesthetic drive behind his meticulous ordering of the contents was in essence religious, an attempt to emphasise the wonder of God's creations by restoring the natural world to its prelapsarian harmony.


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title: Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
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content:
A selection of photo-micrographs created  by Arthur E Smith and featured in the book Nature through Microscope &#38; Camera(1909) by Richard Kerr.


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title: George (2014)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/george-2014/
content:
Animated GIF created by Bill Domonkos, using Prelinger Archive footage of the heart's function and a photograph from The Library of Congress.


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title: A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-meditation-upon-a-broomstick-1711/
content:
A classic piece of parody from the great English satirist and author of <em>Gulliver's Travels</em>, Jonathan Swift. The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, 1665


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title: Artistic Creation (1901)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/artistic-creation-1901/
content:
A wonderful short film directed by illusionist-turned-filmmaker Walter R. Booth and produced by Robert Paul - one of the earliest examples of trickery in the editing room enabling an artist's creation to come to life on screen, a popular motif in early film.


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title: The Art of Swimming (1587)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-swimming-1587/
content:
Selections of the forty beautiful woodblock illustrations from Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi (The Art of Swimming) published in 1587, considered the first English treatise on the practise.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12268
title: Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/09/17/ghostwriter-and-ghost-the-strange-case-of-pearl-curran-patience-worth/

content:
In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have conjured a long-dead New England puritan named Patience Worth through a Ouija board. Although mostly unknown today, the resulting books, poems, and plays that Worth "dictated" to Curran earned great praise at the time. Ed Simon investigates the curious and nearly forgotten literary fruits of a “ghost” and her ghostwriter.


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title: Piracy at the Old Bailey
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/01/piracy-at-the-old-bailey/
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Ben Merriman presents a selection of piracy cases from the proceedings of London's Old Bailey. Although a few live up to the swashbuckling heists of stereotype, many reveal the surprisingly everyday nature of the maritime crimes brought before the court, including cases involving an argument over chickens and the stealing of a captain's hats.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12339
title: The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
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url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/16/the-poet-the-physician-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-vampire/

content:
From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein's monster, there arose that other great figure of 19th-century gothic fiction - the Vampire - a creation of Lord Byron's personal physician John Polidiri. Andrew McConnell Stott explores how a fractious relationship between Polidiri and his poet employer lies behind the  tale, with Lord Byron himself providing a model for the blood-sucking aristocratic figure of the legend we are familiar with today.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12349
title: Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/
content:
To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose of Austrian lyric poet Georg Trakl, Richard Millington explores the role the drug played in Trakl's life and works.


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title: Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/11/12/illustrations-of-madness-james-tilly-matthews-and-the-air-loom/

content:
Mike Jay recounts the tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars who was confined to London's notorious Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the "Air Loom" - a terrifying machine whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror, and war.


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title: The Book of Selected Essays, 2011 – 2013
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The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, 2011-2013Paperback / 216mm x 140mm346 pages / 70lb paper / full colour34 essays / 146 illustrations


We are very pleased to announce our very first foray into printed matter: a selection of essays from our first three years. Released through the newly born PDR Press, the book shall be the first in an annual &#8220;Selected Essays&#8221; series showcasing our top pick from the yearâ�¦


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title: Thank You!
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Congratulations, the purchase was a success! Your transaction has been completed and a receipt for your purchase has been emailed to you. See below for details on delivery and how you can help us spread the word. 


Information on Postage

U.S. orders should expect a time of around 2 to 3 weeks, for non-US destinations it should be around 3 or 4 weeks. We know this is a long timeâ�¦


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title: The PDR Press
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The PDR Press is the newly formed book publishing spin-off project from The Public Domain Review. In addition to the annual Selected Essays series, it shall publish a range of beautifully crafted limited edition books &#8211; text and image &#8211; all of which shall use the historical archive as their resource and starting point. More to come soon&#8230;.

If you&#8217;d like to talk about possibilities for collaboration then please contactâ�¦


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title: Contents Preview
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The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, 2011-2013
Thirty-four essays spread across six themed chapters 



ANIMALS

Nicholas Humphrey
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law



Niki Russell
Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits



Frank Key
Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno



Mark Kaufman
Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues




BODIES


Nicholas Jeeves
The Serious and the Smirk


Noga Arikha
As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy


George Prochnik 
American Kaleidoscope: Morton Princeâ�¦


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title: Announcing Our Book of Selected Essays
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            Announcing the launch of our very first book!





The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, 2011-2013Paperback / 216mm x 140mm346 pages / 70lb paper / full colour34 essays / 146 illustrations

We are very pleased to announce our very first foray into printed matter: a selection of essays from our first three years.

Spread across six themed chapters – Animals, Bodies, Words, Worlds, Encountersâ�¦


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title: Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World”
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Julia Pastrana, a woman from Mexico born with hypertrichosis, became one of the most famous human curiosities of the 19th century, exhibited as a "bearded lady" while both alive and dead. Bess Lovejoy explores her story and how it was only in 2013, 153 years after her passing, that she was finally laid to rest.


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title: The Pain-Killer Polka
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IMAGE: Advert for Perry Davis&#8217; Pain Killer by F. Archer, ca. 1899. Davis&#8217; &#8220;PAIN KILLER&#8221; was originally patented in 1845 and is believed to be the first nationally advertised remedy specifically for pain, as distinct from a particular disorder. From the collection of Wellcome Library, London.

SIZE: A wide variety of sizes possible including the recommended 20″ x 28″

PAPER: Available on a variety of different papers from normal posterâ�¦


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title: Captain Costentenus: Tattooed from Head to Foot
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IMAGE: Advert for a Farini exhibition in London starring Captain Costentenus, a &#8220;Greek Albanian! Tattooed from head to foot in Chinese Tartary, as punishment for engaging in rebellion against the King&#8221;. From the collection of Wellcome Library, London.

SIZE: A wide variety of sizes possible including the recommended 20″ x 28″

PAPER: Available on a variety of different papers from normal poster paper, through to heavyweight archival and premium canvas.â�¦


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title: Hall’s Coca Wine
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IMAGE: Advert for Hall&#8217;s Coca Wine: The Elixir of Life, a tonic wine of the early twentieth century that used cocaine as an ingredient. From the collection of Wellcome Library, London.

SIZE: A wide variety of sizes possible including the recommended 20″ x 28″

PAPER: Available on a variety of different papers from normal poster paper, through to heavyweight archival and premium canvas.

PRICE: Varies depending on size and paperâ�¦


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12524
title: When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth and Dufour
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/01/28/when-chocolate-was-medicine-colmenero-wadsworth-and-dufour/

content:
Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food. Christine Jones traces the history and literature of its reception.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12567
title: Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle
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content:
More than just a favourite of Victorian home entertainment, the stereoscope and the 3D images it created were also used in the field of science. Lydia Pyne explores how the French palaeontologist Marcellin Boule utilised the device in his groundbreaking monograph analysing one of the early-20th-century's most significant archaeological discoveries - the Neanderthal skeleton of La Chapelle.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12593
title: The Eternal Guffaw: John Leech and The Comic History of Rome
uri: The-Eternal-Guffaw-John-Leech-and-The-Comic-History-of-Rome
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/02/25/the-eternal-guffaw-john-leech-and-the-comic-history-of-rome/

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At the beginning  of the 1850s, two stalwarts from the heart of London-based satirical magazine <em>Punch</em>, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and John Leech, cast their mocking eye a little further back in time and published <em>The Comic History of Rome</em>. Caroline Wazer explores how it is not in the text but rather in Leech's delightfully anachronistic illustrations that the book's true subversion lies, offering as they do a critique of Victorian society itself.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12618
title: Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora
uri: Sex-and-Science-in-Robert-Thornton-s-Temple-of-Flora
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/03/11/sex-and-science-in-robert-thorntons-temple-of-flora/
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Bridal beds, blushing captives, and swollen trunks - Carl Linnaeus' taxonomy of plants heralded a whole new era in 18th-century Europe of plants being spoken of in sexualised terms. Martin Kemp explores how this association between the floral and erotic reached its visual zenith in Robert Thornton's exquisitely illustrated Temple of Flora.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?page_id=12658
title: HAECKEL’S ASCIDIACEA T-Shirt
uri: 2015-03-21-HAECKEL-S-ASCIDIACEA-T-Shirt
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/apparel/haeckels-ascidiacea-t-shirt-2/
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IMAGE: Plate 85 from Ernst Haeckel&#8217;s visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur, the Art Forms of Nature, published in 1904. With the assistance of Jena artist-lithographer Adolf Giltsch, Haeckel produced one hundred plates depicting the forms of animal life, mainly marine animals. With this book Haeckel wanted to create an “aesthetics of nature” and to show how the incessant struggle for existence he had learnt from Darwin was in fact producingâ�¦


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12666
title: Ignorant Armies: Private Snafu Goes to War
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/03/25/ignorant-armies-private-snafu-goes-to-war/
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Between 1943 and 1945, with the help of Warner Bros.' finest, the U.S. Army produced a series of 27 propaganda cartoons depicting the calamitous adventures of Private Snafu. Mark David Kaufman explores the overarching theme of containment and how one film inadvertently let slip one of the war's greatest secrets.


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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12755
title: Black on Black
uri: Black-on-Black
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/04/09/black-on-black/
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Should we consider black a colour, the absence of colour or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Beginning with Robert Fludd's attempt to picture nothingness, Eugene Thacker reflects* on some of the ways in which blackness has been used and thought about through the history of art and philosophical thought.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12800
title: Forgotten Failures of African Exploration
uri: Forgotten-Failures-of-African-Exploration
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/04/22/forgotten-failures-of-african-exploration/
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Dane Kennedy reflects on two disastrous expeditions into Africa organised by the British in the early-19th century, and how their lofty ambitions crumbled before the implacable realities of the continent.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12841
title: Scurvy and the Terra Incognita
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/05/06/scurvy-and-the-terra-incognita/
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One remarkable symptom of scurvy, that constant bane of the Age of Discovery, was the acute and morbid heightening of the senses. Jonathan Lamb explores how this unusual effect of sailing into uncharted territory echoed a different kind of voyage, one undertaken by the Empiricists through their experiments in enhancing the senses artificially.


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title: The Empathetic Camera: Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/05/20/the-empathetic-camera-frank-norris-and-the-invention-of-film-editing/

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At the heart of American author Frank Norris' gritty turn-of-the-century fiction lies an essential engagement with the everyday shock and violence of modernity. Henry Giardina explores how this focus, combined with his unique approach to storytelling, helped to pave the way for a truly filmic style.


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title: 16th-Century Ornament Print T-Shirt
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IMAGE: Highly elaborate ornament print from Cornelis Floris. On the one hand, prints such as these had a functional value, serving as inspiration for craftsmen, such as goldsmiths or carpenters, whose adorning of objects and buildings with ornate designs was in much demand at the time. On the other hand, they are stunning pieces of artwork in their own right, twisting as they do traditional motifs from Roman art andâ�¦


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title: The Night-Walker
uri: The-Night-Walker
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/pd-texts/the-night-walker/
content:
The Night-Walker: Or, Evening Rambles in Search after Lewd Women, with the Conferences Held with Them (1696)

by John Dunton








To the Dutches of . . .

MADAM,
The Bounty of a Certain Prince, who was taken with your Charms, has made it familiar to you for many years, to be accosted with the usual Compliment of may it please your Grace: But most people are of opinion, that howâ�¦


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12931
title: The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque
uri: The-Nightwalker-and-the-Nocturnal-Picaresque
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/06/03/the-nightwalker-and-the-nocturnal-picaresque/
content:
The introduction of street lighting to 17th-century London saw an explosion of nocturnal activity in the capital, most of it centring around the selling of sex. Matthew Beaumont explores how some writers, with the intention of condemning these nefarious goings-on, took to the city's streets after dark, and in the process gave birth to a peculiar new literary genre.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=12968
title: A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
uri: A-Bestiary-of-Sir-Thomas-Browne
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/06/17/a-bestiary-of-sir-thomas-browne/
content:
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.


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title: Friends of The Public Domain Review
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title: Friends Welcome
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13033
title: The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
uri: The-Mystery-of-Lewis-Carroll
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/01/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/
content:
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which sees its 150th anniversary this year, remains to this day an enigmatic figure. Jenny Woolf explores the joys and struggles of this brilliant, secretive, and complex man, creator of one of the world's best-loved stories.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13072
title: Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments
uri: Cat-Pianos-Sound-Houses-and-Other-Imaginary-Musical-Instruments
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/15/cat-pianos-sound-houses-and-other-imaginary-musical-instruments/

content:
Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson, curators of the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, explore the wonderful history of made-up musical contraptions, including a piano comprised of yelping cats and Francis Bacon's 17th-century vision of experimental sound manipulation.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13135
title: Machiavelli, Comedian
uri: Machiavelli-Comedian
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/08/05/machiavelli-comedian/
content:
Most familiar today as the godfather of <em>Realpolitik</em> and as the eponym for all things cunning and devious, the Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli also had a lighter side, writing as he did a number of comedies. Christopher S. Celenza looks at perhaps the best known of these plays, <em>Mandragola</em>, and explores what it can teach us about the man and his world.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13181
title: When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
uri: When-the-Birds-and-the-Bees-Were-Not-Enough-Aristotle-s-Masterpiece
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/08/19/when-the-birds-and-the-bees-were-not-enough-aristotles-masterpiece/

content:
Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual - first published in 17th-century London and reprinted in hundreds of subsequent editions - both taught and titilated through the early modern period and beyond.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?page_id=12545
title: Masthead
uri: Masthead
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/about/masthead/
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13227
title: Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile
uri: Tribal-Life-in-Old-Lyme-Canada-s-Colorblind-Chronicler-and-his-Conn
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/02/tribal-life-in-old-lyme-canadas-colorblind-chronicler-and-his-connecticut-exile/

content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13251
title: Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon
uri: Dr-Mitchill-and-the-Mathematical-Tetrodon
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/16/dr-mitchill-and-the-mathematical-tetrodon/
content:
One of the early Republic's great polymaths, New Yorker Samuel L. Mitchill was a man with a finger in many a pie, including medicine, science, natural history, and politics. Dr Kevin Dann argues that Mitchill's peculiar brand of curiosity can best be seen in his study of fish and the attention he gives one seemingly unassuming specimen.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13290
uri: Bad-Air-Pollution-Sin-and-Science-Fiction-in-William-Delisle-Hay
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/30/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction/
title:
Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)

content:
Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory - Brett Beasley explores a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.


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title: Jobs
uri: Jobs
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/about/jobs/
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13314
title: Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology
uri: Richard-Spruce-and-the-Trials-of-Victorian-Bryology
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/10/14/richard-spruce-and-the-trials-of-victorian-bryology/
content:
Obsessed with the smallest and seemingly least exciting of plants — mosses and liverworts — the 19th-century botanist Richard Spruce never achieved the fame of his more popularist contemporaries. Elaine Ayers explores the work of this unsung hero of Victorian plant science and how his complexities echoed the very subject of his study.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13073
title: The First Circus (1921)
uri: The-First-Circus-(1921)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-first-circus-1921/
content:
Two animations by Tony Sarg: one an untitled film critiquing the Prohibition of the 20s via the medium of drunk monkeys, the other a series of humorous scenes depicting a circus.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13195
title: Collection of Pornographic Art from Antiquity (1785)
uri: Collection-of-Pornographic-Art-from-Antiquity-(1785)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/collection-of-pornographic-art-from-antiquity-1785/
content:
A collection of pornographic art from antiquity, presented by the French art historian and libertine Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13299
title: Historic Oregon Newspapers: Preserving History While Shaping the Future
uri: Historic-Oregon-Newspapers-Preserving-History-While-Shaping-the-Futur
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/historic-oregon-newspapers-preserving-history-while-shaping-the-future/

content:
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON LIBRARIES - Sheila Rabun, Digital Project Manager at the Digital Scholarship Center, gives a tour of the rich and varied history of news media in Oregon.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13304
title: Hi-Res Images from the Apollo Missions
uri: Hi-Res-Images-from-the-Apollo-Missions
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hi-res-images-from-the-apollo-missions/
content:
Selection of super hi-res images from the Apollo 11 mission, from the criss-cross of boot prints in the lunar dust, to Neil Armstrong's watery gaze after first landing.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13126
title: Illustrations from an Italian Book of Proverbs (1718)
uri: Illustrations-from-an-Italian-Book-of-Proverbs-(1718)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-from-an-italian-book-of-proverbs-1718/
content:
Illustrations from a seventeenth-century Italian book of proverbs made by the engraver and painter Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634–1718).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13182
title: Seeing London (1918)
uri: Seeing-London-(1918)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/seeing-london-1918/
content:
A unique glimpse at London in 1918, some months before the end of World War I. The film shows some of the famous sights of the city, from Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral, from Clepotra's Needle to the Tower of London.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13174
title: Gynecological Gymnastics from Outer Space (1895)
uri: Gynecological-Gymnastics-from-Outer-Space-(1895)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/gynecological-gymnastics-from-outer-space-1895/
content:
A set of diagrams from a 19th-century gynecology manual, in which the figures bear an uncanny resemblance to depictions of aliens from more than half-a-century later.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13162
title: The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838
uri: The-American-Anti-Slavery-Almanac-for-1838
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-american-anti-slavery-almanac-for-1838/
content:
Issue from 1838 of the American Anti-Slavery Almanac,  first published in 1836 by the American Anti-Slavery Society and an attempt to bring awareness about slavery to nineteenth-century America.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13137
title: Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica
uri: Watercolours-from-a-16th-Century-De-Materia-Medica
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/watercolours-from-a-16th-century-de-materia-medica/
content:
Wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations from a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides's work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13178
title: Footage of the Twin Towers Being Built (1976)
uri: Footage-of-the-Twin-Towers-Being-Built-(1976)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/footage-of-the-twin-towers-being-built-1976/
content:
A film produced by Western Electric,  a haunting glimpse into the construction of the Twin Towers in New York and their early use.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13059
title: Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants
uri: Portraits-of-Ellis-Island-Immigrants
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/portraits-of-ellis-island-immigrants/
content:
A selection on Augustus Sherman's photographs of immgrants passing through Ellis Island on their way to new lives in the United States.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13119
title: 19th-Century Album of Ottoman Fashion
uri: 19th-Century-Album-of-Ottoman-Fashion
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/19th-century-album-of-ottoman-fashion/
content:
An album showing various clothing and ceremonial costumes of the Ottoman Empire, including an array of very impressive hatwear.


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title: Jacob Sarnoff and the Strange World of Anatomical Filmmaking
uri: Jacob-Sarnoff-and-the-Strange-World-of-Anatomical-Filmmaking
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/jacob-sarnoff-and-the-strange-world-of-anatomical-filmmaking/

content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13118
title: Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)
uri: Awful-Disclosures-of-Maria-Monk-(1836)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk-1836/
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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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13075
title: 16th-Century Pattern Book for Scribes
uri: 16th-Century-Pattern-Book-for-Scribes
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/16th-century-pattern-book-for-scribes/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13053
title: At the Moving Picture Ball (1920)
uri: At-the-Moving-Picture-Ball-(1920)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/at-the-moving-picture-ball-1920/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13167
title: Queen Victoria’s Teenage Diaries (1912)
uri: Queen-Victoria-s-Teenage-Diaries-(1912)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/queen-victorias-teenage-diaries-1912/
content:
Excerpts from the teenage diaries of Queen Victoria , spanning from 1832, when Victoria was 13-years-old, to 1840, the same year that she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the age of 20.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13173
title: Circulation of Ch’i (1886)
uri: Circulation-of-Ch-i-(1886)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/circulation-of-chi-1886/
content:
A nineteenth-century Taoist ink drawing by an unknown Chinese artist, showing the circulation of ch'i (or qì) through the human body.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13324
title: The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1905)
uri: The-Art-of-Ornamental-Orange-Peeling-(1905)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-ornamental-orange-peeling/
content:
Images from an article about an unusual form of sculpture, found in a 1905 issue of American Homes and Gardens magazine.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13326
title: Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865)
uri: Spectropia-or-Surprising-Spectral-Illusions-(1865)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/spectropia-or-surprising-spectral-illusions-1865/
content:
A book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, ghosts everywhere and of any colour.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13332
title: Harry Kellar’s Show Posters
uri: Harry-Kellar-s-Show-Posters
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/harry-kellars-show-posters/
content:
A series of wonderful promotional posters to accompany the shows of Harry Kellar, an American magician of the late 19th and early 20th century.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13340
title: Apollinaire’s Calligrammes (1918)
uri: Apollinaire-s-Calligrammes-(1918)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/apollinaires-calligrammes-1918/
content:
A book of poetry by French writer Guillaume Apollinaire, noted for its use of "caligrams" in which typeface and arrangement of words on the page add to the meaning of the compositions.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13312
title: Notes on the Fourth Dimension
uri: Notes-on-the-Fourth-Dimension
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/10/28/notes-on-the-fourth-dimension/
content:
Hyperspace, ghosts, and colourful cubes - Jon Crabb on the work of Charles Howard Hinton and the cultural history of higher dimensions.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13362
title: The Legend of the Divine Farmer
uri: The-Legend-of-the-Divine-Farmer
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-legend-of-the-divine-farmer/
content:
WELLCOME LIBRARY - Gillian Daniels, Graduate Trainee at the Wellcome Trust, explores the story of Shen Nong, born of a princess and heavenly dragon, and teacher to the ancient Chinese of agriculture and herbal medicine.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13382
title: Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)
uri: Georg-Bartisch-s-Ophthalmodouleia-(1583)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/georg-bartischs-ophthalmodouleia-1583/
content:
Images from Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst, the first Renaissance manuscript on ophthalmic disorders and eye surgery, published in 1583 by German physician Georg Bartisch (1535–1607), considered by many to be the father of modern ophthalmology.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13391
title: The Telephonoscope (1879)
uri: The-Telephonoscope-(1879)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-telephonoscope-1879/
content:
Device imagined in a Punch cartoon from 1879, predicting the advent of video chat more than 100 years before Skype.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13393
title: The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon and The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption
uri: The-Price-of-Suffering-William-Pynchon-and-The-Meritorious-Price-of
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/11/11/the-price-of-suffering-william-pynchon-and-the-meritorious-price-of-our-redemption/

content:
William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote a book which became, at the hands of the Puritans it riled against, one of the first to be banned and burned on American soil. Daniel Crown explores.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13199
title: Cossack Fairy Tales (1916)
uri: Cossack-Fairy-Tales-(1916)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cossack-fairy-tales-1916/
content:
Fairy tales and folk tales originally published in 1894 and translated from a dialect spoken in the area known to us today as western Ukraine.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13402
title: Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History
uri: Colour-Wheels-Charts-and-Tables-Through-History
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/colour-wheels-charts-and-tables-through-history/
content:
A chronology of various attempts through the last four centuries to visually organise and make sense of colour: from simple wheels to multi-layered pyramids, from scientific systems to those based on the hues of human emotion.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13154
title: How to use the Dial Telephone (1927)
uri: How-to-use-the-Dial-Telephone-(1927)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/how-to-use-the-dial-telephone-1927/
content:
A film by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, showing through both animation and live action how to use the rotary dial of the telephone.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13159
title: Portraits of Imprisoned Modoc Warriors (1873)
uri: Portraits-of-Imprisoned-Modoc-Warriors-(1873)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/portraits-of-imprisoned-modoc-warriors-1873/
content:
Photographs of captured Modoc warriors taken by Louis Herman Heller (1839-1929) during and after the The Modoc War.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13411
title: The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
uri: The-Science-of-Life-and-Death-in-Mary-Shelley-s-Frankenstein
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/11/25/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein/

content:
Professor Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, considering contemporary investigations into resuscitation, galvanism, and the possibility of states between life and death.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13070
title: From India to the Planet Mars (1900)
uri: From-India-to-the-Planet-Mars-(1900)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/from-india-to-the-planet-mars-1900/
content:
A book detailing the seances of Hélène Smith including claimed contact with people living on Mars,  involving the writing down of their language, as well as sketches of the Martian landscape she witnessed in visons.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13074
title: Cyanotypes of British Algae by Anna Atkins (1843)
uri: Cyanotypes-of-British-Algae-by-Anna-Atkins-(1843)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cyanotypes-of-british-algae-by-anna-atkins-1843/
content:
Cyanotypes of British algae by Anna Atkins (1799-1871), an English botanist and female photographer most noted for using photography in her books on various plants.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13449
title: The Quirky, the Artful, and the Unexpected: Historic Photographs of Life in Australia
uri: The-Quirky-the-Artful-and-the-Unexpected-Historic-Photographs-of
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-quirky-the-artful-and-the-unexpected-historic-photographs-of-life-in-australia/

content:
MUSEUM VICTORIA - Dr Elycia J Wallis, Manager of Online Collections, presents a few fascinating glimpses of late-19th- and early-20th-century Australia, and the photographers who documented its inhabitants.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13451
title: Worlds Without End
uri: Worlds-Without-End
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/12/09/worlds-without-end/
content:
At the end of the 19th century, inspired by radical advances in technology, physicists asserted the reality of invisible worlds — an idea through which they sought to address not only psychic phenomena such as telepathy, but also spiritual questions around the soul and immortality. Philip Ball explores this fascinating history, and how in this turn to the unseen in the face of mystery there exists a parallel to quantum physics today.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13458
title: Class of 2016
uri: Class-of-2016
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2016/
content:
Our top pick of those artists and writers whose works will in 2016 be entering the public domain in many countries around the world.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13158
title: Alcohol and the Human Body (1949)
uri: Alcohol-and-the-Human-Body-(1949)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/alcohol-and-the-human-body-1949/
content:
An educational film by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films showing the effects that alcohol has on the human body and brain as well as the dangers of alcoholism.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13488
title: Skating with Bror Myer (1921)
uri: Skating-with-Bror-Myer-(1921)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/skating-with-bror-myer-1921/
content:
Delightful images from an illustrated guide to figure skating by Bror Myer, a Swedish champion in the art.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13491
title: Robin Redbreast (1907)
uri: Robin-Redbreast-(1907)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/robin-redbreast-1907/
content:
A song about the rouge chested bird composed by Reginald De Koven, featuring some wonderful whistling to mimic the bird's call.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13149
title: Anatomical Illustrations from 15th-century England
uri: Anatomical-Illustrations-from-15th-century-England
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/anatomical-illustrations-from-15th-century-england/
content:
Anatomical illustrations from an English medical treatise dating from the mid 15th century, including a Wound Man illustration, depicting a man who has been stabbed, bitten, and wounded by arrows, as well as bludgeoned in the arm and head.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13049
title: Manual Training — Play Problems (1917)
uri: Manual-Training-Play-Problems-(1917)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/manual-training-play-problems-1917/
content:
This charming book from 1917 presents a manual training in what the author William S. Marten terms constructive-play, full of how-to guides for making all manner of toys and other objects.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13513
title: NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res
uri: NYPL-Release-187k-Public-Domain-Images-in-Hi-Res
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/nypl-release-187k-public-domain-images-in-hi-res/
content:
Our selection of highlights from an afternoon's browsing of the NYPL's massive new public domain release — a selection which we hope shows the breadth and depth of the content.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13503
title: On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism
uri: On-Oscar-Wilde-and-Plagiarism
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/01/13/on-oscar-wilde-and-plagiarism/
content:
Celebrated for his innovative wit, Oscar Wilde and the notion of originality are common bedfellows. The pairing, however, is not without its complications. Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore the claims of plagiarism that dogged Wilde's career, particularly as regards his relationship with that other great figure of late-19th-century Decadence, the American painter James McNeill Whistler.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13102
title: Life, Crimes, and Confession of Bridget Durgan (1867)
uri: Life-Crimes-and-Confession-of-Bridget-Durgan-(1867)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/life-crimes-and-confession-of-bridget-durgan-1867/
content:
A small booklet detailing the narrative of Bridget Durgan (1843-1867), an Irish domestic servant who was hanged for murder of her master in the 1860s New Jersey.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13521
title: Lewis Hine’s Composite Photographs of Child Labourers (1913)
uri: Lewis-Hine-s-Composite-Photographs-of-Child-Labourers-(1913)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/lewis-hines-composite-photographs-of-child-labourers-1913/

content:
A unique set of composite photographs by Lewis Hine depicting Southern cotton mill workers. Each image was created by purposively rephotographing several workers upon the same photographic plate.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13166
title: Francis Bacon on Gardens (1902)
uri: Francis-Bacon-on-Gardens-(1902)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/francis-bacon-on-gardens-1902/
content:
Featuring artwork by Lucien Pissarro, this is a beautiful art nouveau edition of an essay on gardens by the Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13528
title: Plastic Reconstruction of the Face (1918)
uri: Plastic-Reconstruction-of-the-Face-(1918)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/plastic-reconstruction-of-the-face-1918/
content:
Silent film exploring the Studio for Portrait Masks, the Paris workshop of American artist Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939), which provided galvanised copper masks for soldiers whose faces were partly destroyed fighting in the First World War.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13531
title: Phenomena Over and Under the Earth (1878)
uri: Phenomena-Over-and-Under-the-Earth-(1878)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/phenomena-over-and-under-the-earth-1878/
content:
An Austrian painter's beautiful presentation of various atmospheric conditions including will-o'-the-wisp, a moonbow, and the Northern Lights.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13530
title: Robert Greene, the First Bohemian
uri: Robert-Greene-the-First-Bohemian
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/01/27/robert-greene-the-first-bohemian/
content:
Known for his debauched lifestyle, his flirtations with criminality, and the sheer volume of his literary output, the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene was a fascinating figure. Ed Simon explores the literary merits and bohemian traits of the man who penned the earliest known, and far from flattering, reference to Shakespeare as a playwright.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13542
title: Thomas Edison Tells a Joke about a Liver (1906)
uri: Thomas-Edison-Tells-a-Joke-about-a-Liver-(1906)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/thomas-edison-tells-a-joke-about-a-liver-1906/
content:
The great inventor Thomas Edison tells a joke about a healthy liver, recorded on his Edison Blue Amberol cylinder. I guess you had to have been there...


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13547
title: Sharing Photographs
uri: Sharing-Photographs
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sharing-photographs/
content:
MUSEUM FÜR KUNST UND GEWERBE (MKG) - Antje Schmidt, Head of Digital Cataloguing and MKG Collection Online, and Esther Ruelfs, Head of  MKG's Photography and New Media Department, on the functions of sharing images, both historically and in the present.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13551
title: The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)
uri: The-Friendship-Book-of-Anne-Wagner-(1795-1834)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834/
content:
Pages from a friendship book of Anne Wagner, aunt to the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne, who herself has a number of entries in the album, including wonderful mixed-media collages.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13557
title: London a Hundred Years Hence (1857)
uri: London-a-Hundred-Years-Hence-(1857)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/london-a-hundred-years-hence-1857/
content:
A vision, from 1857, of what London would look like 100 years in the future — including the prediction of vast shopping malls and internet shopping.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13565
title: Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)
uri: Le-Centre-de-l-Amour-(ca-1687)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/le-centre-de-lamour-ca-1687/
content:
The centre of love: discovered through various emblems, gallant and facetious — a delightfully illustrated emblem book exploring all corners of seventeenth-century courtship.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13564
title: Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints
uri: Who-Says-Michelangelo-Was-Right-Conflicting-Visions-of-the-Past-in-Ea
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/10/who-says-michelangelo-was-right/
content:
When the lost classical sculpture Laocoön and His Sons — lauded as representing the very highest ideal of art — was dug up in 1506 with limbs missing, the authorities in Rome set about restoring it to how they imagined it once to look. Monique Webber explores how it was in reproductive prints that this vision was contested, offering a challenge to the mainstream interpretation of Antiquity.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13050
title: The Cheese Mites or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (1901)
uri: The-Cheese-Mites-or-Lilliputians-in-a-London-Restaurant-(1901)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-cheese-mites-or-lilliputians-in-a-london-restaurant-1901/

content:
Wonderful example of early special effects, a man is dining in a restaurant when three small human-like creatures, two men and a woman, appear from his food and drink, much to the amusement of the man at the table.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13586
title: Sketches in Bedlam (1823)
uri: Sketches-in-Bedlam-(1823)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sketches-in-bedlam-1823/
content:
A compendium of glimpses into the personalities and stories of more than 140 mental patients confined to the Bethlem Hospital in the early part of the 19th century.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13052
title: D.O.A. (1950)
uri: D-O-A-(1950)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/d-o-a-1950/
content:
A film noir — starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton — about a man who has been poisoned and, with only a few days left to live, sets out to find his killer.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13598
title: Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)
uri: Self-portrait-by-Ernst-Mach-(1886)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/
content:
Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach's unique self-portrait, from the perspective of his left eye.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13172
title: The American Woods
uri: The-American-Woods
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-american-woods/
content:
a selection of pages from Romeyn Beck Hough's epic fourteen volume work The American Woods, a collection of more than 1000 paper-thin wood samples representing more than 350 varieties of North American tree


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13610
title: The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues
uri: The-Anthropometric-Detective-and-His-Racial-Clues
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/24/the-anthropometric-detective-and-his-racial-clues/
content:
Ava Kofman explores how the spectre of race, in particular Francis Galton's disturbing theory of eugenics, haunts the early history of fingerprint technology.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13616
title: Topsell’s History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)
uri: Topsell-s-History-of-Four-Footed-Beasts-and-Serpents-(1658)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/topsells-history-of-four-footed-beasts-and-serpents-1658/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13619
title: The Art of Hidden Faces: Anthropomorphic Landscapes
uri: The-Art-of-Hidden-Faces-Anthropomorphic-Landscapes
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-hidden-faces-anthropomorphic-landscapes/
content:
A compendium of anthropomorphic landscapes, in which natural vistas are given the form of human heads.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13629
title: Books and Bookmen (1886)
uri: Books-and-Bookmen-(1899)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/books-and-bookmen-1886/
content:
Best known for his work collecting of folk and fairy tales, this is the Scottish writer Andrew Lang's treatise on all things bookish.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13037
title: Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865)
uri: Reed-Bontecou-s-Portraits-of-Wounded-Soldiers-(1865)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/reed-bontecous-portraits-of-wounded-soldiers-1865/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13631
title: The Strange Case of Mr William T. Horton
uri: The-Strange-Case-of-Mr-William-T-Horton
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/09/the-strange-case-of-mr-william-t-horton/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13639
title: The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800)
uri: The-Merry-Cobler-and-His-Musical-Alphabet-(ca-1800)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-merry-cobler-and-his-musical-alphabet-ca-1800/
content:
A charming alphabet book, dating from around 1800, published by the Glasgow-based publishers J. Lumsden and Son.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13188
title: Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1902)
uri: Colour-Analysis-Charts-by-Emily-Noyes-Vanderpoel-(1902)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/color-analysis-charts-by-emily-noyes-vanderpoel-1902/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13183
title: Six and a Half Magic Hours (1958)
uri: Six-and-a-Half-Magic-Hours-(1958)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/six-and-a-half-magic-hours-1958/
content:
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.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13648
title: Chrysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea (1760)
uri: Chrysal-or-The-Adventures-of-a-Guinea-(1760)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/chrysal-or-the-adventures-of-a-guinea-1760/
content:
One of the first of the immensely popular 18th-century "it-narratives", the tale of coin and the human intrigue to which it finds itself bearing witness.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13642
title: Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods
uri: Divine-Comedy-Lucian-Versus-The-Gods
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/03/23/divine-comedy-lucian-versus-the-gods/
content:
With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata took the popular images of the Greek gods and re-drew them as greedy, sex-obsessed, power-mad despots. Nicholas Jeeves explores the story behind the work and its reception in the English speaking world.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=12561
title: The Postures of the Mouth (1846)
uri: The-Postures-of-the-Mouth-(1846)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-postures-of-the-mouth-1846/
content:
Diagrams showing the postures of the mouth when demonstrating proper elocution, from a 19th-century book dedicated to elocution.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13628
title: Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday (1902)
uri: Sun-Dials-and-Roses-of-Yesterday-(1902)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sun-dials-and-roses-of-yesterday-1902/
content:
A wonderfully eclectic treatise on all things sundials and roses — jam-packed with photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13693
title: The Sea Monk (ca. 1845)
uri: The-Sea-Monk-(ca-1845)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-sea-monk-ca-1845/
content:
A woodblock print, by the late Edo period artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, illustrating the story of an encounter with the Sea Monk or Umibozu, a spirit in Japanese folklore.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13083
title: Sourire d’Avril (1906)
uri: Sourire-d-Avril-(1906)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sourire-davril-1906/
content:
Translating as Smile of April, this is a waltz composed by the French composer Maurice Depret performed by The Columbia Symphony Orchestra.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13698
title: Picturing Don Quixote
uri: Picturing-Don-Quixote
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/04/06/picturing-don-quixote/
content:
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the best-loved and most frequently illustrated books in the history of literature — Don Quixote. Rachel Schmidt explores how the varying approaches to illustrating the tale have reflected and impacted its reading through the centuries.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13203
title: Images from The Champion Text Book on Embalming (1897)
uri: Images-from-The-Champion-Text-Book-on-Embalming-(1897)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/images-from-the-champion-text-book-on-embalming-1897/
content:
Photographs demonstrating the process of embalming, from The Champion Text Book on Embalming, published in 1897.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13708
title: The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar (ca. 1621)
uri: The-Explosion-of-the-Spanish-Flagship-during-the-Battle-of-Gibraltar-(
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-explosion-of-the-spanish-flagship-during-the-battle-of-gibraltar-ca-1621/

content:
Depicting what was probably the most decisive moment of the Battle of Gibraltar, this remarkable painting by Dutch artist Cornelius Claesz van Wieringen, is also an extraordinary attempt to capture the gruesome realities of an explosion.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13721
title: Shakespeare in Art
uri: Shakespeare-in-Art
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/shakespeare-in-art/
content:
To celebrate the 400th anniversary since the passing of "The Bard", we've put together some of our favourite images to which his plays have given rise: including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, George Cruikshank, Robert Smirke, and Franz Marc.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13724
title: George Washington at the Siamese Court
uri: George-Washington-at-the-Siamese-Court
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/04/21/george-washington-at-the-siamese-court/
content:
Keen to appear outward-looking and open to Western culture, in 1838 the Second King of Siam bestowed upon his son a most unusual name. Ross Bullen explores the curious case of Prince George Washington, a 19th-century Siamese prince.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13728
title: Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)
uri: Comparative-Physiognomy-or-Resemblances-Between-Men-and-Animals-(185
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/comparative-physiognomy-or-resemblances-between-men-and-animals-1852/

content:
A book concerned with comparing animals with human faces, in particular those belonging to various nations and ethnic groups.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13732
title: New Elucidations of Thomson’s Seasons (1822)
uri: New-Elucidations-of-Thomson-s-Seasons-(1822)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/new-elucidations-of-thomsons-seasons-1822/
content:
Skeletons up to all sorts in this light-hearted satire of James Thomson's poem Spring,  from the pen of humorist Henry James Pidding.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13736
title: Raja Harishchandra (1913)
uri: Raja-Harishchandra-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/raja-harishchandra-1913/
content:
Based on the eponymous legend recounted in the Sanskrit epics, this is the very first full-length Indian feature — the beginning of Bollywood.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13735
title: Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence
uri: Frolicsome-Engines-The-Long-Prehistory-of-Artificial-Intelligence
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/05/04/frolicsome-engines-the-long-prehistory-of-artificial-intelligence/

content:
Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13744
title: Hypnotism Posters (ca. 1900)
uri: Hypnotism-Posters-(ca-1900)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hypnotism-posters-ca-1900/
content:
A set of amusing turn-of-the-century hypnotism posters showing hypnotised people up to various strange shenanigans.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13747
title: Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year 1744 (1918)
uri: Emanuel-Swedenborg-s-Journal-of-Dreams-and-Spiritual-Experiences-in
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/emanuel-swedenborgs-journal-of-dreams-and-spiritual-experiences-1918/

content:
Dream diary of the 18th-century Swedish scientist, philosopher, religious teacher and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13750
title: The Map That Changed the Middle East (1916)
uri: The-Map-That-Changed-the-Middle-East-(1916)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-map-that-changed-the-middle-east-1916/
content:
The map that changed the Middle East, outlining a secret agreement between the the UK and France on how they would carve up the Middle East should the Ottoman Empire be defeated in the First World War.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13753
title: Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution
uri: Copying-Pictures-Evidencing-Evolution
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/05/18/copying-pictures-evidencing-evolution/
content:
Copying — unoriginal, dull, and derivative by definition — can be creative, contested, and consequential in its effects. Nick Hopwood tracks Haeckel’s embryos, some of the most controversial pictures in the history of science, and explores how copying put them among the most widely seen.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13761
title: I Am The Edison Phonograph (1906)
uri: I-Am-The-Edison-Phonograph-(1906)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/i-am-the-edison-phonograph-1906/
content:
This somewhat unnerving recording would would have been heard at most Edison phonograph dealers in the early part of the twentieth century.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13765
title: The Legs of the Opera (ca. 1862)
uri: The-Legs-of-the-Opera-(ca-1862)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-legs-of-the-opera-ca-1862/
content:
An unusual creation from the studio of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, the French photographer known for inventing the hugely popular carte de visite.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13779
title: The Steps of Life
uri: The-Steps-of-Life
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-steps-of-life/
content:
Selection of images illustrating on the idea that one's life can be thought of as divisible into distinct stages.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13778
title: Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature
uri: Francis-van-Helmont-and-the-Alphabet-of-Nature
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/01/francis-van-helmont-and-the-alphabet-of-nature/
content:
Largely forgotten today in the shadow of his more famous father, the 17th-century Flemish alchemist Francis van Helmont influenced and was friends with the likes of Locke, Boyle, and Leibniz. While imprisoned by the Inquisition, in between torture sessions, he wrote his Alphabet of Nature on the idea of a universal natural language. Je Wilson explores.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13788
title: Fables for the Frivolous (1899)
uri: Fables-for-the-Frivolous-(1899)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899/
content:
One of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl, this collection of fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's Aesop-style originals from more than 200 years earlier.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13791
title: The Difficulty of Ruling over a Diverse Nation (1578)
uri: The-Difficulty-of-Ruling-over-a-Diverse-Nation-(1578)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-difficulty-of-ruling-over-a-diverse-nation-1578/
content:
16th-century Dutch engraving depicting a fantastical animal with the heads of various other animals sprouting from its body: an allegory for the difficulty of ruling over a diverse nation.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13160
title: Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)
uri: Album-of-Seaweed-Pictures-(1848)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/album-of-seaweed-pictures-1848/
content:
Fine specimen of a 19th-century seaweed album, in which marine algae is rendered into designs, bouquets, and even sometimes intricate little scenes.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13794
title: Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816
uri: Frankenstein-the-Baroness-and-the-Climate-Refugees-of-1816
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/15/frankenstein-the-baroness-and-the-climate-refugees-of-1816/

content:
It is 200 years since The Year Without a Summer, when a sun-obscuring ash cloud — ejected from one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history — caused temperatures to plummet the world over. Gillen D’Arcy Wood looks at the humanitarian crisis triggered by the unusual weather, and how it offers an alternative lens through which to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a book begun in its midst.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13064
title: Guess Me (1879)
uri: Guess-Me-(1879)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/guess-me-1879/
content:
Illustrated by George Cruikshank among others, a collection of word, number, and picture puzzles in the form of enigmas, conundrums, acrostics, and a series of incredibly tricky rebuses.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13815
title: Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing
uri: Marvels-of-Things-Created-and-Miraculous-Aspects-of-Things-Existing
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/marvels-of-things-created-and-miraculous-aspects-of-things-existing/

content:
Images from an exquisitely illustrated Persian translation, thought to hail from 17th-century Mughal India, of Zakariya al-Qazwini's medieval treatise on all things wondrous.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13812
title: The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade
uri: The-Secret-History-of-Holywell-Street-Home-to-Victorian-London-s-Di
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/29/the-secret-history-of-holywell-street-home-to-victorian-londons-dirty-book-trade/

content:
Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London's epicentre of erotica and smut.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13101
title: My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum (1879)
uri: My-Experiences-in-a-Lunatic-Asylum-(1879)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/my-experiences-in-a-lunatic-asylum-1879/
content:
An account of being confined in Ticehurst, a private asylum in Victorian Britain, by the author Herman Charles Merivale.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13071
title: To New Horizons (1940)
uri: To-New-Horizons-(1940)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/to-new-horizons-1940/
content:
A vision of the future from General Motors created to champion their "Highways and Horizons" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13844
title: The Singerie: Monkeys acting as Humans in Art
uri: The-Singerie-Monkeys-acting-as-Humans-in-Art
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-singerie-monkeys-acting-as-humans-in-art/
content:
Examples of Singerie, from the French for Monkey Trick, a genre of art in which monkeys are depicted aping human behaviour.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13847
title: “For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century
uri: For-the-Sake-of-the-Prospect-Experiencing-the-World-from-Above
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/07/20/for-the-sake-of-the-prospect-experiencing-the-world-from-above-in-the-late-18th-century/

content:
The first essay in a two-part series in which Lily Ford explores how balloon flight transformed our ideas of landscape. We begin with a look at the unique set of images included in Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia (1786) — the first real overhead aerial views.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13946
title: A Traveler from Altruria (1894)
uri: A-Traveler-from-Altruria-(1894)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-traveler-from-altruria-1894/
content:
Utopian fiction delivering a vision of a one-class socialist utopia while at once offering a biting critique of unfettered capitalism.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=13973
title: The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams
uri: The-Surreal-Art-of-Alchemical-Diagrams
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-surreal-art-of-alchemical-diagrams/
content:
The varied tradition of alchemy has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some favourites.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13952
title: “Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View
uri: Unlimiting-the-Bounds-the-Panorama-and-the-Balloon-View
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/03/unlimiting-the-bounds-the-panorama-and-the-balloon-view/
content:
The second essay in a two-part series in which Lily Ford explores how balloon flight transformed our ideas of landscape. Here she looks at the phenomenon of the panorama, and how its attempts at creating the immersive view were inextricably linked to the new visual experience opened up by the advent of ballooning.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14003
title: With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825
uri: With-Lord-Byron-at-the-Sandwich-Islands-in-1825
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/with-lord-byron-at-the-sandwich-islands-in-1825/
content:
Journal of the Scottish botanist James McCrae recounting his 1825 voyage to Hawaii with the cousin of the poet Lord Byron.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14006
title: Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)
uri: Details-from-Bosch-s-Garden-(ca-1500)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/details-from-boschs-garden-ca-1500/
content:
Collection of detailed crops from Hieronymous Bosch's most ambitious work, The Garden of Earthly Delights. 


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14012
title: The Over-Incubated Baby (1901)
uri: The-Over-Incubated-Baby-(1901)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-over-incubated-baby-1901/
content:
A mother brings her baby to Professor Bakem's newly invented baby incubator, which claims to give one year's of growth in just one hour, but an accident leads to a distressing surprise.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=10418
title: The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
uri: The-Death-and-Burial-of-Cock-Robin
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-death-and-burial-of-cock-robin/
content:
The Death of Cock Robin, also known as The Death and Burial of Cock Robin is a somewhat macabre English nursery rhyme describing the murder and the funeral of a robin. 


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14033
title: Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)
uri: Kobayashi-Kiyochika-s-Cartoons-of-the-Russo-Japanese-War-(1904-5)
content: Propaganda cartoons from the pen of Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika.
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/kobayashi-kiyochikas-cartoons-of-the-russo-japanese-war-1904-5/


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14022
title: The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform
uri: The-Calcutta-Pococurante-Society-Public-and-Private-in-India-s-Age
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/17/the-calcutta-pococurante-society-public-and-private-in-indias-age-of-reform/

content:
Joshua Ehrlich on an obscure text found on the shelves of a Bengali library and the light it sheds on the idea of the public in 19th-century Calcutta.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14060
title: Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)
uri: Contents-of-an-Ostrich-s-Stomach-(ca-1930)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/contents-of-an-ostrichs-stomach-ca-1930/
content:
An unusual image captured by Frederick William Bond, photographer at the Zoological Society of London. Contents included a couple of handkerchiefs, a buttoned glove, a length of rope, a plain handkerchief, and a four-inch nail.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14070
title: The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909)
uri: The-Up-To-Date-Sandwich-Book-400-Ways-to-Make-a-Sandwich-(1909)
content: A wonderfully no-nonsense guide to the culinary art of the sandwich.
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-up-to-date-sandwich-book-400-ways-to-make-a-sandwich-1909/


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14082
title: Phenakistoscopes (1833)
uri: Phenakistoscopes-(1833)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/phenakistoscopes-1833/
content:
A popular Victorian parlour toy, generally marketed for children, which is widely considered to be among the earliest forms of animation and the precursor to modern cinema. 


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14079
title: In Search of the Third Bird: Kenneth Morris and the Three Unusual Arts
uri: In-Search-of-the-Third-Bird-Kenneth-Morris-and-the-Three-Unusual-Arts
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/in-search-of-the-third-bird-kenneth-morris-and-the-three-unusual-arts/

content:
CONJECTURES #1 — Easter McCraney explores the pages of an obscure Theosophical journal and the ornithological intrigues which lie within.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14111
title: Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)
uri: Barnard-s-Universal-Criminal-Cipher-Code-(1895)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/barnards-universal-criminal-cipher-code-1895/
content:
A book of codes to help disguise internal police telegrams in what amounted to some kind of 19th-century version of the encrypted email.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14102
title: Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany
uri: Visions-of-Algae-in-Eighteenth-Century-Botany
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/09/07/visions-of-algae-in-eighteenth-century-botany/
content:
Although not normally considered the most glamorous of Mother Nature's offerings, algae has found itself at the heart of many a key moment in the last few hundred years of botanical science. Ryan Feigenbaum traces the surprising history of one particular species — Conferva fontinalis — from the vials of Joseph Priestley's laboratory to its possible role as inspiration for Shelley's Frankenstein.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14165
title: The Rowing-Bath (1916)
uri: The-Rowing-Bath-(1916)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-rowing-bath-1916/
content:
A device which promises to secure the zest which accompanies the pleasant pastime of buffeting surf.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14183
title: The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky (1877)
uri: The-Influence-of-the-Blue-Ray-of-the-Sunlight-and-of-the-Blue-Color-of
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-influence-of-the-blue-ray-of-the-sunlight-and-of-the-blue-color-of-the-sky-1877/

content:
True to the ideas held within — that blue light is bearer of unique and special properties — this book is entirely printed with blue ink on blue paper.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14197
title: Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)
uri: Illustrations-from-a-Descriptive-Iconography-of-Cacti-(1841)
content: Illustrations of cacti featured in a 19th-century work by French botanist Charles Lemaire.
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-from-a-descriptive-iconography-of-cacti-1841/


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14158
title: Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq
uri: Out-of-Their-Love-They-Made-It-A-Visual-History-of-Buraq
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/09/21/out-of-their-love-they-made-it-a-visual-history-of-buraq/
content:
Although mentioned only briefly in the Qur'an, the story of the Prophet Muhammad's night journey to heaven astride a winged horse called Buraq has long caught the imagination of artists. Yasmine Seale charts the many representations of this enigmatic steed, from early Islamic scripture to contemporary Delhi, and explores what such a figure can tell us about the nature of belief.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14240
title: Opium Destruction, San Francisco (1914)
uri: Opium-Destruction-San-Francisco-(1914)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/opium-destruction-san-francisco-1914/
content:
In the shadow of an unfinished City Hall, still clad in scaffolding, government authorities destroy confiscated opium in downtown San Fransisco, 1914.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14258
title: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
uri: Kwaidan-Stories-and-Studies-of-Strange-Things-(1904)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-1904/
content:
Deriving its title from the word for "ghost story" in Japanese this is a book by scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn in which are compiled an array of ghost stories hailing from Japan.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14278
title: Pages From an Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments (ca. 1919)
uri: Pages-From-an-Illustrated-Catalogue-of-Period-Ornaments-(ca-1919)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/pages-from-an-illustrated-catalogue-of-period-ornaments-ca-1919/

content:
The Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments Cast in Composition and Wood Fibre for Woodwork-Furniture features samples of wood carvings offered by the Decorators
Supply Company of Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century. These decorative elements — so pleasingly presented in the catalogue — could be glued or nailed to furniture, ceilings, and other architectural surfaces. The catalogue would have been used not only to display the Company’s selectionâ�¦


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14296
title: The Splash of a Drop (1895)
uri: The-Splash-of-a-Drop-(1895)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-splash-of-a-drop-1895/
content:
A delightfully focused study on the physics and aesthetics of a splashing drop, wit some wonderful diagrams.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14326
title: Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)
uri: Painted-Photograph-of-an-Unknown-Man-(ca-1855-70)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/painted-photograph-of-an-unknown-man-ca-1855-70/
content:
An unusual example of a painted photograph, in which the artist has left sections untouched by paint. 


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14332
title: Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass
uri: Harry-Clarke-s-Looking-Glass
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/10/12/harry-clarkes-looking-glass/
content:
With their intricate line and often ghoulish tone, the works of Irish artist Harry Clarke are amongst the most striking in the history of illustration and stained glass design. Kelly Sullivan explores how, unknown to many at the time, Clarke took to including his own face in many of his pictures.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14396
title: Every Society Invents the Failed Utopia it Deserves
uri: Every-Society-Invents-the-Failed-Utopia-it-Deserves
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/every-society-invents-the-failed-utopia-it-deserves/
content:
CONJECTURES #2 — John Tresch stumbles across an unusual piece, purported to be from the pen of noted anarchist Louise Michel, telling of a cross-dressing revolutionary unhinged at the helm of some kind of sociopolitical astrolabe.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14404
title: Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)
uri: Potts-s-Discovery-of-Witches-in-the-County-of-Lancaster-(1845)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/pottss-discovery-of-witches-in-the-county-of-lancaster-1845/

content:
19th-century reprint, with additional introduction by James Crossley, of Thomas Potts' The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, first published in 1613.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14413
title: Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904)
uri: Ernst-Haeckel-s-Bats-(1904)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ernst-haeckels-bats-1904/
content:
Bats galore featured on plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (1904).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14415
title: Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel
uri: Richard-Hakluyt-and-Early-English-Travel
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/10/26/richard-hakluyt-and-early-english-travel/
content:
The Principle Navigations, Richard Hakluyt's great championing of Elizabethan colonial exploration, remains one of the most important collections of English travel writing ever published. As well as the escapades of famed names such as Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, Nandini Das looks at how the book preserves many stories of lesser known figures that surely would have been otherwise lost.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14458
title: The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
uri: The-Infernal-Cauldron-(1903)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-infernal-cauldron-1903/
content:
Short film by Georges Méliès, released through his Star Film Company, featuring demons, flames, spectres, and a brilliant array of the film-maker's usual arsenal of tricks.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14540
title: “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
uri: Let-us-Calculate-Leibniz-Llull-and-the-Computational-Imagina
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/10/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-computational-imagination/

content:
Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the birth of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14589
title: Rainbows in Art
uri: Rainbows-in-Art
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/rainbows-in-art/
content:
Depictions spanning more than 800 years – in chronological order – of that most enigmatic of weather phenomena, the rainbow.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14593
title: Walter Crane’s Painting Book (1889)
uri: Walter-Crane-s-Painting-Book-(1889)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/walter-cranes-painting-book-1889/
content:
Long before the current craze for adult colouring books came this 19th-century painting book from one of the finest contributors to the Golden Age of illustration.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14608
title: Within Our Gates (1920)
uri: Within-Our-Gates-(1920)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/within-our-gates-1920/
content:
The oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director, portraying the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=13499
title: Astral Travels with Jack London
uri: Astral-Travels-with-Jack-London
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/22/astral-travels-with-jack-london/
content:
On the centenary of Jack London’s death, Benjamin Breen looks at the writer’s last book to be published in his lifetime, The Star Rover — a strange tale about solitary confinement and interstellar reincarnation, which speaks to us of the dreams and struggles of the man himself.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14675
title: Airopaidia (1786) — the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion
uri: Airopaidia-(1786)-the-Narrative-of-a-Balloon-Excursion
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/airopaidia-1786-the-narrative-of-a-balloon-excursion/
content:
Coming in at almost 400 pages, a wonderfully detailed account of a balloon trip over Chester in 1785, including the first ever real overhead aerial views.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14696
title: The Frog (1908)
uri: The-Frog-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-frog-1908/
content:
A sprightly frog circles various come-to-life fountain tableaux, as well as a giant version of itself, an enormous head being drenched by water, and some multicoloured fire thrown in for good measure.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14720
title: Class of 2017
uri: Class-of-2017
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2017/
content:
Our top pick of those whose works will, on 1st January 2017, enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Gertrude Stein, Buster Keaton, H. G. Wells, and André Breton.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14715
title: The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man
uri: The-Many-Lives-of-the-Medieval-Wound-Man
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/12/07/the-many-lives-of-the-medieval-wound-man/
content:
Sliced, stabbed, punctured, bleeding, harassed on all sides by various weaponry, the curious image of Wound Man is a rare yet intriguing presence in the world of medieval and early modern medical manuscripts. Jack Hartnell explores this enigmatic figure’s journey through the centuries.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14792
title: Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913)
uri: Forty-Four-Turkish-Fairy-Tales-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/forty-four-turkish-fairy-tales-1913/
content:
In this elaborately produced volume, beautifully illustrated by Willy Pogany, Hungarian-born linguist Ignác Kúnos presents 44 folktales from Turkey, including princesses, dragons, wizards, witches, and horses that can fly.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14770
title: The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)
uri: The-Trouvelot-Astronomical-Drawings-(1882)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882/
content:
The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings published in 1882, a collection of 15 exquisite pastel works created by the French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. 


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14816
uri: Some-Remarks-on-the-Legacy-of-Madame-Francine-Descartes-First-Lady
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/some-remarks-on-the-legacy-of-madame-francine-descartes/
title:
Some Remarks on the Legacy of Madame Francine Descartes – First Lady and Historian of the Robocene – on the Occasion of 500 Years Since her Unlawful Watery Execution.

content:
CONJECTURES #3 — Dominic Pettman, through the voice of a distant Roomba descendant, offers a glimpse into the historiographical revenge of our enslaved devices.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14841
title: The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas
uri: The-Living-Photographs-of-Mole-and-Thomas
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-living-photographs-of-mole-and-thomas/
content:
A series of extraordinary group portraits, made between 1915 and 1921, comprised of thousands of servicemen and staff from various US military camps arranged into pictures.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14880
title: The Confidence-Man (1857)
uri: The-Confidence-Man-(1857)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-confidence-man-1857/
content:
Published on the day it is set, April Fool's Day 1857, Herman Melville's last novel concerns a group of passengers travelling by steamboat along the Mississippi and their various encounters with the enigmatic conman of the title.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14884
title: Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
uri: Defoe-and-the-Distance-to-Utopia
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/01/25/defoe-and-the-distance-to-utopia/
content:
In the wake of recent political shifts and the dystopian flavour they carry for many, J.H. Pearl looks to the works of Daniel Defoe and the lessons they can teach us about bringing utopia home.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14929
title: Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection
uri: Miniatures-from-a-12th-century-Medical-and-Herbal-Collection
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/miniatures-from-a-12th-century-medical-and-herbal-collection/

content:
Wonderful series of miniatures from a late 12th-century herbal with delightfully abstract depictions of plants including Cannabis), and a variety of medieval medical procedures, such as cauterization and the removal of haemorrhoids.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14947
title: The Pioneer ov Simplified Speling, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1912)
uri: The-Pioneer-ov-Simplified-Speling-Vol-1-No-1-(1912)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-pioneer-ov-simplified-speling-vol-1-no-1-1912/
content:
The inaugural issue of the official journal of the Simplified Speling Soesiety, a group of passionate spelling reformists active in early 20th-century Britain, who boasted George Bernard Shaw amongst their members.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14958
title: The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)
uri: The-City-of-Truth-or-Ethics-(1609)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-city-of-truth-or-ethics-1609/
content:
Images of imaginary utopias and dystopias used to illustrate an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethicsis.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14961
title: Despotism (1946)
uri: Despotism-(1946)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/despotism-1946/
content:
Short from Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, published a year after the end of WW2, exploring the characteristics and causes of despotism.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=14974
title: W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
uri: W-E-B-Du-Bois-Hand-Drawn-Infographics-of-African-American-Life-(
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900/

content:
Visually dazzling set of hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=14980
title: George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?
uri: George-Washington-A-Descendant-of-Odin
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/08/george-washington-a-descendant-of-odin/
content:
Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15027
title: Francesco Tamagno sings Verdi’s Otello, Death Scene (1903)
uri: Francesco-Tamagno-sings-Verdi-s-Otello-Death-Scene-(1903)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/francesco-tamagno-sings-verdis-otello-death-scene-1903/
content:
Two years after Verdi's death and two years before his own, the great Francesco Tamagno sings the death scene of Othello, Niun Mi Tema.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15053
title: A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions
uri: A-Selection-from-The-MET-s-Public-Domain-Collection-Now-Free-from-A
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-selection-from-the-mets-public-domain-collection/
content:
We present our highlights from the lesser known corners of The Metropolitan Museum's public domain collection, now made available free from restrictions on use.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15061
title: Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century
uri: Yellow-Journalism-The-Fake-News-of-the-19th-Century
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/yellow-journalism-the-fake-news-of-the-19th-century/
content:
Peddling lies in public goes back to antiquity, but it is the with the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century when it first reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15068
title: A Queer Taste for Macaroni
uri: A-Queer-Taste-for-Macaroni
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/22/a-queer-taste-for-macaroni/
content:
With his enormous hair, painted face, and dainty attire, the so-called "macaroni" was a common sight upon the streets and ridiculing prints of 1770s London. Dominic Janes explores how with this new figure — and the scandalous sodomy trials with which the stereotype became entwined — a widespread discussion of same-sex desire first entered the public realm, long before the days of Oscar Wilde.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15117
title: Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians
uri: Marcus-Selmer-s-Photographs-of-19th-Century-Norwegians
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/marcus-selmers-photographs-of-19th-century-norwegians/
content:
Stunning set of portraits of Norwegians in national folk costume taken by the Danish photographer Marcus Selmer.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15124
title: A Journey Round my Room (1794 / 1871)
uri: A-Journey-Round-my-Room-(1794-1871)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-journey-round-my-room-1794-1871/
content:
Xavier de Maistre's delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing written while under a six-week house-arrest in Turin.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15130
title: Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
uri: Images-from-Johann-Zahn-s-Oculus-Artificialis-(1685)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/images-from-johann-zahns-oculus-artificialis-1685/
content:
The excellent engravings from Johann Zahn's early and comprehensive account of the function and usage of a number of optical instruments, including the camera obscura and magic lantern.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15133
title: Voltaire and the Buddha
uri: Voltaire-and-the-Buddha
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/03/08/voltaire-and-the-buddha/
content:
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. looks at Voltaire's early reflections on Buddhism and how, in his desire to separate the Buddha's teachings from the trappings of religion, the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15179
title: Maniac Chase (1904)
uri: Maniac-Chase-(1904)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/maniac-chase-1904/
content:
One of the very first screen depictions of the now familiar Napoleon delusion trope — in which a mentally ill person believes themselves to be Napoleon Bonaparte.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15182
title: Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century
uri: Aratea-Making-Pictures-with-Words-in-the-9th-Century
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/aratea-making-pictures-with-words-in-the-9th-century/
content:
Some of the earliest examples of calligrams found in a 9th-century astronomical manuscript on the constellations.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15187
title: John McCormack – Recordings: 1911-1940
uri: John-McCormack-Recordings-1911-1940
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/john-mccormack-recordings-1911-1940/
content:
The songs of one of Ireland's best known tenors, renowned for lending his superior diction and breath control to a whole range of operatic and popular songs.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15191
title: American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road
uri: American-Freedom-Sinclair-Lewis-and-the-Open-Road
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/03/22/american-freedom-sinclair-lewis-and-the-open-road/
content:
Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air, one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the tale, one echoed throughout Lewis&#8217; oeuvre.

Sinclair Lewis at the wheel of his automobile, ca. 1920s — Source.

Sinclair Lewis is experiencing a renaissance of late — butâ�¦


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15227
title: Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)
uri: Edward-Curtis-Photographs-of-Kwakwaka-wakw-Ceremonial-Dress-and-M
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/edward-curtis-photographs-of-kwakwakawakw-ceremonial-costumes-and-masks-ca-1914/

content:
The ceremonial costumes and masks of the Kwakwaka'wakw people as photographed by American photographer and ethnologist Edward Curtis, famous for his work with Native American people.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15230
uri: The-Wise-Boys-or-The-Entertaining-Histories-of-Fred-Forethought-Mat
title:
The Wise Boys: or, The Entertaining Histories of Fred Forethought, Matt Merrythought, Luke Lovebook and Ben Bee (ca. 1842)

url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-wise-boys-or-the-entertaining-histories-of-fred-forethought-matt-merrythought-luke-lovebook-and-ben-bee-ca-1842/

content:
Collection of poetic stories championing exemplary boyhood behaviour, the work of the American poet Sarah Josepha Buell Hale.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15252
title: Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
uri: Images-from-the-Earliest-Known-Colour-Book-on-Fish-(1754)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/images-from-the-earliest-known-colour-book-on-fish-1754/
content:
Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes can lay claim to be being the earliest known publication in colour on fish, though many specimens seem to border on fantasy.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15235
title: Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
uri: Lofty-Only-in-Sound-Crossed-Wires-and-Community-in-19th-Century-Dream
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/04/05/lofty-only-in-sound-crossed-wires-and-community-in-19th-century-dreams/

content:
Alicia Puglionesi explores a curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War, in which old ideas about the prophetic nature of dreaming collided with loss, longing, and new possibilities of communication at a distance.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15297
title: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
uri: The-Private-Memoirs-and-Confessions-of-a-Justified-Sinner-(1824)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-1824/

content:
James Hogg's masterpiece — part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15301
title: Scenes from Rip Van Winkle (1903)
uri: Scenes-from-Rip-Van-Winkle-(1903)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/scenes-from-rip-van-winkle-1903/
content:
Recording made for Colombia Records in which the legendary actor Joseph Jefferson plays the part of Rip Van Winkle.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15305
title: The Spinning Sow (1673)
uri: The-Spinning-Sow-(1673)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-spinning-sow-1673/
content:
17th-century Dutch engraving showing a team of pigs spinning cotton, while in the corner a woman — who'd normally be associated with the work — sleeps.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15341
title: Arcimboldo-esque Composite Portraits of Trades (ca. 1800)
uri: Arcimboldo-esque-Composite-Portraits-of-Trades-(ca-1800)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/arcimboldo-esque-composite-portraits-of-trades-ca-1800/
content:
Lovely aquatint print depicting four composite portraits for the professions of florist, writer, musician, and barber — their features made up entirely from the tools of their trades.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15309
title: W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
uri: W-B-O-Shaughnessy-and-the-Introduction-of-Cannabis-to-Modern-Weste
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/04/19/w-b-oshaughnessy-and-the-introduction-of-cannabis-to-modern-western-medicine/

content:
Cataleptic trances, enormous appetites, and giggling fits aside, W. B. O'Shaughnessy's investigations at a Calcutta hospital into the potential of medical marijuana — the first such trials in modern medicine — were largely positive. Sujaan Mukherjee explores the intricacies of this pioneering research and what it can tell us more generally about the production of knowledge in colonial science.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15393
title: Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass
uri: Texts-in-Mathias-Enard-s-Compass
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/texts-in-mathias-enards-compass/
content:
Collection of the major public domain texts featuring in the novel Compass by French writer Mathias Enard — including Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Joseph-Charles Mardrus.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15397
title: The Elizabeths: Elemental Historians
uri: The-Elizabeths-Elemental-Historians
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-elizabeths-elemental-historians/
content:
CONJECTURES #4 — Carla Nappi conjures a dreamscape from four archival fragments — four oblique references to women named “Elizabeth” who lived on the watershed of the 16th-to-17th century.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15405
title: The Burning Stable (1896)
uri: The-Burning-Stable-(1896)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-burning-stable-1896/
content:
A remarkable short, most likely staged, showing a stable on fire with horses being rescued and humans fleeing.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15411
title: Woodcuts and Witches
uri: Woodcuts-and-Witches
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/05/04/woodcuts-and-witches/
content:
Jon Crabb on the witch-craze of Early Modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone — complete with cauldron and cats — so familiar today.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15482
title: The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath
uri: The-Maps-of-Matrakçı-Nasuh-Ottoman-Polymath
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-maps-of-matrakci-nasuh-16th-century-polymath/
content:
Exquisite miniatures of 16th-century Persia by Bosnian-born Ottoman polymath and all-round genius Matrakcı Nasuh.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15487
title: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)
uri: Wit-and-Wisdom-of-Don-Quixote-(1867)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/wit-and-wisdom-of-don-quixote-1867/
content:
From whole multi-paragraph excerpts to single lines, this wonderful little book dedicates itself, as the title declares, to presenting the wit and wisdom to be found in Miguel de Cervantes' masterpiece.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15490
title: The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944)
uri: The-War-Art-of-Paul-Nash-(1917-1944)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-war-art-of-paul-nash-1917-1944/
content:
Depictions of the destroyed and broken landscapes of the First and Second World War by the English artist Paul Nash, amongst the most important landscape artists of the twentieth century.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15493
title: Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton
uri: Stuffed-Ox-Dummy-Tree-Artificial-Rock-Deception-in-the-Work-of-Rich
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/05/17/stuffed-ox-dummy-tree-artificial-rock-deception-in-the-work-of-richard-and-cherry-kearton/

content:
John Bevis explores the various feats of cunning and subterfuge undertaken by the Kearton brothers — among the very first professional wildlife photographers — in their pioneering attempts to get ever closer to their subjects.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15537
title: Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)
uri: Growing-Things-A-Film-Lesson-in-Nature-Study-(1928)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/growing-things-a-film-lesson-in-nature-study-1928/
content:
Gardening lessons from the late 1920s, centreing on the cultivation of beans, including some wonderful time-lapse footage and inter-titles to match.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15541
title: Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)
uri: Public-and-Private-Life-of-Animals-(1877)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/public-and-private-life-of-animals-1877/
content:
Collection of acerbic animal fables, penned by the likes of Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, and illustrated by the brilliant J. J. Grandville.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15550
title: Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)
uri: Photographs-of-Sea-Stars-(1917)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/photographs-of-sea-stars-1917/
content:
Strangely alluring images from a report by German zoologist Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein on starfish collected during the Siboga Expedition around Indonesia.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15560
title: Book of French Textile Samples (1863)
uri: Book-of-French-Textile-Samples-(1863)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/book-of-french-textile-samples-1863/
content:
This delightful book features a collection of nineteenth-century textile samples — in the form of watercolour copies — from the Robert Maison company.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15558
title: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin
uri: Gustav-Wunderwald-s-Paintings-of-Weimar-Berlin
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/05/31/gustav-wunderwalds-paintings-of-weimar-berlin/
content:
The Berlin of the 1920s is often associated with a certain image of excess and decadence, but it was a quite different side of the city — the sobriety and desolation of its industrial and working-class districts — which came to obsess the painter Gustav Wunderwald. Mark Hobbs explores.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15602
title: The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)
uri: The-Flower-of-Battle-Italian-Fighting-Manual-(ca-1410)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/italian-fighting-manual-ca-1410/
content:
15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15612
title: Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)
uri: Geographical-Fun-Being-Humourous-Outlines-of-Various-Countries-(1868)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/geographical-fun-being-humourous-outlines-of-various-countries-1868/

content:
Series of fantastic anthropomorphic maps of European countries, each footnoted by a witty quatrain, was produced by London publisher Hodder and Stoughton in the 1860s.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15630
title: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
uri: Eighteen-Hundred-and-Eleven-(1812)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/eighteen-hundred-and-eleven-1812/
content:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld's controversial poem which presciently imagines a future Britain in ruin, eclipsed by the rising might of America.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15632
title: Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses
uri: Decoding-the-Morse-The-History-of-16th-Century-Narcoleptic-Walruses
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/06/14/decoding-the-morse-the-history-of-16th-century-narcoleptic-walruses/

content:
Amongst the assorted curiosities described in Olaus Magnus' 1555 tome on Nordic life was the morse — a hirsuite, fearsome, walrus-like beast, that was said to snooze upon cliffs while hanging by its teeth. Natalie Lawrence explores the career of this chimerical wonder, shaped both by scholarly images of a fabulous north and the grisly corporeality of the trade in walrus skins, teeth, and bone.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15561
title: Ha Bun Shu: a Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1919)
uri: Ha-Bun-Shu-a-Japanese-Book-of-Wave-and-Ripple-Designs-(1919)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ha-bun-shu-a-japanese-book-of-wave-and-ripple-designs-1919/

content:
Wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs produced by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, which would have found their way onto swords and associated paraphernalia, as well as lacquerware, Netsuke, religious objects, and a host of other items.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15684
title: The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)
uri: The-Hawaiian-Quintette-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-hawaiian-quintette-1913/
content:
Selection of tracks recorded by the Hawaiian Quintette for Victor in 1913, series of recordings which went a long way toward establishing Hawaiian music as a significant genre on mainland US.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15675
title: The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram
uri: The-Long-Forgotten-Walk-of-David-Ingram
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/06/28/the-long-forgotten-walk-of-david-ingram/
content:
If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks undertaken in recorded history. Although the account's more fantastical elements, such as the sighting of elephants, have spurred many to consign it to the fiction department, John Toohey argues for a second look.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15724
title: Lover of the Strange, Sympathizer of the Rude, Barbarianologist of the Farthest Peripheries
uri: Lover-of-the-Strange-Sympathizer-of-the-Rude-Barbarianologist-of-the
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/lover-of-the-strange-sympathizer-of-the-rude-barbarianologist-of-the-farthest-peripheries/

content:
CONJECTURES #5 — Winnie Wong brings us a short biography of the Chinese curioso Pan Youxun (1745-1780). At issue? Hubris, hegemony, and global art history.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15717
title: The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)
uri: The-Concealed-Erotic-Paintings-of-Sommonte-(19th-Century)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-concealed-erotic-paintings-of-sommonte-19th-century/
content:
A wonderfully unique object, at first glance merely a painting of roses, but with hidden erotic scenes beneath.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15731
title: Micromégas by Voltaire (1752)
uri: Micromégas-by-Voltaire-(1752)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/micromegas-by-voltaire-1752/
content:
Early sci-fi short story by Voltaire recounting a visit to Earth by Micromégas, an inhabitant of a distant planet which circles the star Sirius, and his companion hailing from Saturn.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15734
title: Inventing the Recording
uri: Inventing-the-Recording
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/07/12/inventing-the-recording/
content:
Eva Moreda Rodríguez on the formative years of the recording industry, focusing on the culture surrounding the gabinetes fonográficos of fin-de-siècle Spain.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15765
title: Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)
uri: Music-in-the-Margins-The-Funeral-of-Reynard-the-Fox-(13th-century)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/music-in-the-margins-the-funeral-of-reynard-the-fox-13th-century/

content:
A motley crew of anthropomorphic animals found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated book of hours produced in late thirteenth-century England.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15039
title: The History of Ink: Including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography (1860)
uri: The-History-of-Ink-including-its-Etymology-Chemistry-and-Bibliograp
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860/

content:
Delightful little book from Thaddeus Davids and co, one of the largest ink manufacturers of their time: a wonderful example of form matching content.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15778
uri: The-Heart-of-Man-Either-a-Temple-of-God-or-a-Habitation-of-Satan-Re
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-heart-of-man-1851/
title:
The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)

content:
Ten illustrations which, in a wonderful marriage of word and image, plot out the life of the Christian soul.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15771
title: Destination Earth (1956)
uri: Destination-Earth-(1956)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/destination-earth-1956/
content:
Great little promotional cartoon from the height of the Cold War championing not only the wonders of oil but also free-market capitalism. Features the overthrow of the suspiciously Stalin-like leader of Mars named Ogg.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15780
title: Out From Behind This Mask
uri: Out-From-Behind-This-Mask
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/07/27/out-from-behind-this-mask/
content:
A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids — D. Graham Burnett on meditations conjured by a visit to the death masks of the Laurence Hutton Collection.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15878
title: “Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)
uri: Dialogue-of-Frederick-Ruysch-and-His-Mummies-by-Giacomo-Leopardi
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/dialogue-of-frederick-ruysch-and-his-mummies-by-giacomo-leopardi-1827/

content:
The great Italian writer uses the macabre creations of the seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch to reflect upon the mysteries of death.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15882
title: William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)
uri: William-Sharp-s-Chromolithographs-of-The-Great-Water-Lily-(1854)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/william-sharps-chromolithographs-of-the-great-water-lily-1854/

content:
Six magnificent images of Victoria amazonica, believed to be the very first colour-printed lithographs produced in America.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15900
title: Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army
uri: Rescuing-England-The-Rhetoric-of-Imperialism-and-the-Salvation-Army
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/16/rescuing-england-the-rhetoric-of-imperialism-and-the-salvation-army/

content:
Ellen J. Stockstill on how William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, placed the ideas and language of colonialism at the very heart of his vision for improving the lives of Victorian England's poor.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15922
title: Chladni Figures (1787)
uri: Chladni-Figures-(1787)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/chladni-figures-1787/
content:
Wonderful diagrams of nodal lines formed by vibrating plates, found in a late 18th-century work by German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15926
title: The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913)
uri: The-Victrola-Book-of-the-Opera-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-victrola-book-of-the-opera-1913/
content:
First published in 1912, this is the second edition of what would, by 1976, become a series of thirteen separate, and ever-expanding, versions of a wonderfully illustrated tome detailing every operatic record released by Victor records.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15944
title: Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)
uri: Illustrations-from-the-Lights-of-Canopus-(1847)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-from-the-lights-of-canopus-1847/
content:
Exquisite illustrations  from a 19th-century Persian version of an ancient Indian collection of animal fables called the Panchatantra.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15933
title: The Art of Philosophy: Visualising Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris
uri: The-Art-of-Philosophy-Visualising-Aristotle-in-Early-17th-Century-Par
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/30/the-art-of-philosophy-visualising-aristotle-in-early-17th-century-paris/

content:
With their elaborate interplay of image and text, the several large-scale prints designed by the French friar Martin Meurisse to communicate Aristotelian thought are wonderfully impressive creations. Susanna Berger explores the function of these complex works, and how such visual commentaries not only served to express philosophical ideas in a novel way but also engendered their own unique mode of thinking.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=15991
title: Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)
uri: Hieroglyphic-Journal-of-a-Voyage-to-the-Caribbean-(1815)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hieroglyphic-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-caribbean-1815/
content:
Unusual and delightfully ingenious book which employs a series of "hieroglyphic" plates to frame an account of a trade voyage to the Caribbean.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16004
title: Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
uri: Bayard-and-de-Neuville-s-Illustrations-for-Around-the-Moon-by-Jules
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bayard-and-de-neuvilles-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870/

content:
Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=15997
title: Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
uri: Human-Forms-in-Nature-Ernst-Haeckel-s-Trip-to-South-Asia-and-Its-Af
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/09/13/human-forms-in-nature-ernst-haeckels-trip-to-south-asia-and-its-aftermath/

content:
An early promoter and populariser of Darwin's evolutionary theory, the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was a hugely influential figure of the late 19th century. Bernd Brunner looks at how a trip to Sri Lanka sowed the seeds for not only Haeckel's majestic illustrations from his Art Forms in Nature, for which he is perhaps best known today, but also his disturbing ideas on race and eugenics.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16025
title: Park Conscious (1938)
uri: Park-Conscious-(1938)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/park-conscious-1938/
content:
Short film from the US Department of the Interior emphasising the physical and mental well-being that parks can bring.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16077
title: On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)
uri: On-the-Disposition-of-Iron-in-Variegated-Strata-(1868)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/on-the-disposition-of-iron-in-variegated-strata-1868/
content:
Images depicting ferruginous variation from a 19th-century geological paper, at times like some kind of geological precursor to the 50s experiments of Abstract Expressionism.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16090
title: The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)
uri: The-First-Shape-Book-Little-Red-Riding-Hood-(1863)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/little-red-riding-hood-1863/
content:
This 1863 rendering of Perrault's classic tale, is thought to be the very first shape book, or die cut book, at least in the United States.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16099
title: Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
uri: Ignatius-Donnelly-Recipes-for-Disaster
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/09/27/ignatius-donnelly-recipes-for-disaster/
content:
The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16093
title: The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)
uri: The-Civil-War-Sketches-of-Adolph-Metzner-(1861-64)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-civil-war-sketches-of-adolph-metzner-1861-64/
content:
Remarkable collection of sketches, drawings and watercolours left to us by Adolph Metzner, during his three years of service with the 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16149
title: The Primordial Gound
uri: The-Primordial-Gound
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-primordial-gound/
content:
CONJECTURES #6 — Kant in Sumatra? The Third Critique and the cosmologies of Melanesia? Justin E. H. Smith on the strange worlds revealed in a typesetter's error.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16160
title: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1784)
uri: Letters-of-the-Late-Ignatius-Sancho-an-African-(1784)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/letters-of-the-late-ignatius-sancho-an-african-1784/
content:
The published correspondence of Ignatius Sancho, the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be given an obituary in the British press.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16179
title: Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)
uri: Alphonse-Bertillon-s-Synoptic-Table-of-Physiognomic-Traits-(ca-1909
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/alphonse-bertillons-synoptic-table-of-physiognomic-traits-ca-1909/

content:
Cheat sheet to help police clerks put into practice Bertillon's method for classifying and archiving the images of repeat offenders.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16155
title: Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
uri: Race-and-the-White-Elephant-War-of-1884
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/11/race-and-the-white-elephant-war-of-1884/
content:
Feuding impresarios, a white-but-not-white-enough elephant, and racist ads for soap — Ross Bullen on how a bizarre episode in circus history became an unlikely forum for discussing 19th-century theories of race, and inadvertently laid bare the ideological constructions at their heart.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16215
title: Defining the Demonic
uri: Defining-the-Demonic
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/25/defining-the-demonic/
content:
Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s <em>Dictionnaire infernal</em>, a monumental compendium of all things diabolical, was first published in 1818 to much success, it is the fabulously illustrated final edition of 1863 which secured the book as a landmark in the study and representation of demons. Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart lies an unlikely but pertinent synthesis of the Enlightenment and the occult.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=22539
title: Defining the Demonic
uri: 2017-11-01-Defining-the-Demonic
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/25/defining-the-demonic/
content:
Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal, a monumental compendium of all things diabolical, was first published in 1818 to much success, it is the fabulously illustrated final edition of 1863 which secured the book as a landmark in the study and representation of demons. Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=16808
title: Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
uri: Émile-Antoine-Bayard-s-Illustrations-for-Around-the-Moon-by-Jules-V
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/emile-antoine-bayards-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870/

content:
Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16771
title: Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
uri: 2017-11-01-Race-and-the-White-Elephant-War-of-1884
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/11/race-and-the-white-elephant-war-of-1884/
content:
Feuding impresarios, a white-but-not-white-enough elephant, and racist ads for soap — Ross Bullen on how a bizarre episode in circus history became an unlikely forum for discussing 19th-century theories of race, and inadvertently laid bare the ideological constructions at their heart. The Lydian Monarch had been sighted from Fire Island and was expected in Jersey [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16764
title: Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
uri: Master-of-Disaster-Ignatius-Donnelly
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/09/27/ignatius-donnelly-recipes-for-disaster/
content:
The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe. The magnificent civilization of Atlantis shattered and plunged beneath the sea in February 1882. Or, to be more [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16361
title: Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
uri: 2017-11-01-Human-Forms-in-Nature-Ernst-Haeckel-s-Trip-to-South-Asia-and-Its-Af
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/09/13/human-forms-in-nature-ernst-haeckels-trip-to-south-asia-and-its-aftermath/

content:
An early promoter and populariser of Darwin&#8217;s evolutionary theory, the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was a hugely influential figure of the late 19th century. Bernd Brunner looks at how a trip to Sri Lanka sowed the seeds for not only Haeckel&#8217;s majestic illustrations from his Art Forms in Nature, for which he is [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=16350
title: The Art of Philosophy: Visualising Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris
uri: 2017-11-01-The-Art-of-Philosophy-Visualising-Aristotle-in-Early-17th-Century-Par
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/30/the-art-of-philosophy-visualising-aristotle-in-early-17th-century-paris/

content:
With their elaborate interplay of image and text, the several large-scale prints designed by the French friar Martin Meurisse to communicate Aristotelian thought are wonderfully impressive creations. Susanna Berger explores the function of these complex works, and how such visual commentaries not only served to express philosophical ideas in a novel way but also engendered [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=23267
title: The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)
uri: The-Model-Book-of-Calligraphy-(1561-1596)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-model-book-of-calligraphy-1561-1596/
content:
Pages from a remarkable book, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=23596
title: Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
uri: Diagrams-from-Dr-Alesha-Sivartha-s-Book-of-Life-(1898)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/diagrams-from-dr-alesha-sivarthas-book-of-life-1898/
content:
A series of superbly intricate and striking "brain maps", illustrating Dr Alesha Sivartha's unique blend of blend of science, sociology, mysticism and religion, a spiritual teaching which apparently attracted the attention of Mark Twain among others.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=23624
title: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880)
uri: Strange-Stories-from-a-Chinese-Studio-(1880)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-1880/
content:
First English translation of Pu Songling's collection of classical Chinese stories, including magical pear trees, thimble-sized babies, ghostly cities, and mean spirited daughters-in-law being turned into pigs.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=23417
title: Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will
uri: Flash-Mob-Revolution-Lightning-and-the-People-s-Will
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/11/09/revolution-lightning-and-the-peoples-will/
content:
Kevin Duong explores how leading French revolutionaries, in need of an image to represent the all important “will of the people”, turned to the thunderbolt — a natural symbol of power and illumination that also signalled the scientific ideals so key to their project.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=23820
title: Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck
uri: Brief-Encounters-with-Jean-Frédéric-Maximilien-de-Waldeck
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/11/22/brief-encounters-with-jean-frederic-maximilien-de-waldeck/
content:
Not a lot concerning the artist, erotic publisher, explorer, and general enigma Count de Waldeck can be taken at face value, and this certainly includes his fanciful representations of ancient Mesoamerican culture which — despite the exquisite brilliance of their execution — run wild with anatopistic lions, elephants, and suspicious architecture. Rhys Griffiths looks at the life and work of one of the 19th century's most mysterious and eccentric figures.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=23848
title: The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop
uri: The-Salad-Oil-Style-of-Jan-Toorop
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-salad-oil-style-of-jan-toorop/
content:
Selection of Dutch artist Jan Toorop's distinctive works, designs featuring highly stylised figures, embedded in complex curvilinear designs, with his dynamic line showing influence from his Javanese roots.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=24941
title: The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya
uri: The-Whims-(1799)-and-The-Follies-(1815-23)-of-Francisco-Goya
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-whims-1799-and-the-follies-1815-23-of-francisco-goya/
content:
Prints from Goya's Los caprichos (The Whims) and Los disparates (The Follies), two series which see him condemning the follies and foibles of civilized society.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=23847
title: Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age
uri: Kittens-and-Cats-A-First-Reader-(1911)-Cats-and-Captions-before-t
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age/

content:
If this delightful book is anything to go by then taking photos of cats and brandishing them with an amusing caption, was far from being a phenomenon born with the internet.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25180
title: Class of 2018
uri: Class-of-2018
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2018/
content:
Top Row (left to right): Aleister Crowley; René Magritte; Siegfried Sassoon Middle Row (left to right): Alice B. Toklas; Pierre Bonnard; Winston Churchill; M. P. Shiel Bottom Row (left to right): Jean Toomer; P. D. Ouspensky; Anna Wickham; Hans Fallada Pictured above is our top pick of artists and writers whose works will, on 1st [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25146
title: George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)
uri: George-Mayerle-s-Eye-Test-Chart-(ca-1907)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/george-mayerles-eye-test-chart-ca-1907/
content:
This fantastic eye chart — measuring 22 by 28 inches with a positive version on one side and negative on the other — is the work of German optometrist and American Optometric Association member George Mayerle, who was working in San Francisco at end of the nineteenth century, just when optometry was beginning to professionalise. [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=25056
title: Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
uri: Pods-Pots-and-Potions-Putting-Cacao-to-Paper-in-Early-Modern-Europe
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/12/07/pods-pots-and-potions-putting-cacao-to-paper-in-early-modern-europe/

content:
Christine Jones explores the different ways the cacao tree has been depicted through history — from 16th-century codices to 18th-century botanicals — and what this changing iconography reveals about cacao's journey into European culture.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=25269
title: Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia
uri: Yvette-Borup-Andrews-Photographing-Central-Asia
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/10/yvette-borup-andrews-photographing-central-asia/
content:
Although often overshadowed by the escapades of her more famous husband (said by some to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones), the photographs taken by Yvette Borup Andrews on their first expeditions through Central Asia stand today as a compelling contribution to early visual anthropology. Lydia Pyne looks at the story and impact of this unique body of images.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25266
title: The Book of the Homeless (1916)
uri: The-Book-of-the-Homeless-(1916)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-book-of-the-homeless-1916/
content:
Collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores,  edited by Edith Wharton, whose profits were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25267
title: On the Banks of the Old Raritan (1915)
uri: On-the-Banks-of-the-Old-Raritan-(1915)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/on-the-banks-of-the-old-raritan-1915/
content:
Early recording of the alma mater of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, penned in 1873 in just two hours by Howard Newton Fuller, an 1874 graduate of Rutgers College.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25445
title: A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)
uri: A-Collection-of-Fashionable-English-Words-(1887)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-collection-of-fashionable-english-words-1887/
content:
Japanese woodcuts from a series by Kamekichi Tsunajima titled “Ryūkō eigo zukushi”, showing images of animals, activities and objects each with their Japanese and English names.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25408
title: A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1788)
uri: A-Classical-Dictionary-of-the-Vulgar-Tongue-(1788)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-classical-dictionary-of-the-vulgar-tongue-1788/
content:
A compendium of slang from the sordid streets of after-hours Georgian London, compiled by Francis Grose.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25404
title: Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)
uri: Images-from-German-Caterpillar-Calendar-(1837)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/images-from-german-caterpillar-calendar-1837/
content:
Wonderful illustrations from an entomological volume outlining which caterpillars appear each month, as well as details on how to keep them and catch the butterflies into which they will transform.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=25689
title: Darwin’s Polar Bear
uri: Darwin-s-Polar-Bear
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/02/21/darwins-polar-bear/
content:
Musings upon the whys and wherefores of polar bears, particularly in relation to their forest-dwelling cousins, played an important but often overlooked role in the development of evolutionary theory. Michael Engelhard explores.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25717
title: Autographs for Freedom (1853)
uri: Autographs-for-Freedom-(1853)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/autographs-for-freedom-1853/
content:
Anthology of anti-slavery literature featuring abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass’s only published work of fiction.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25687
title: Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)
uri: Steam-Powered-Tooth-Extraction-on-an-Envelope-(1894)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/steam-powered-tooth-extraction-on-an-envelope-1894/
content:
This wonderful sketch of &#8220;teeth painlessly extracted by steam power&#8221; appears on an envelope addressed to a certain Dr J. Chapman of Totton, Southampton. As to whether he is the creator of the drawing also (or indeed someone in his household), the jury is out &#8212; though the idea that the envelope made its way [&#8230;]


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25671
title: Cryptography: or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)
uri: Cryptography-or-the-History-Principles-and-Practice-of-Cipher-Writi
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cryptography-or-the-history-principles-and-practice-of-cipher-writing-1898/

content:
An exploration of covert communication through history by the artist, naturalist, antiquarian, and writer Frederick Edward Hulme.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25651
title: Russian Portraits (1921)
uri: Russian-Portraits-(1921)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/russian-portraits-1921/
content:
Travel diary of the English sculptor Clare Sheridan telling the story of controversial trip to early Soviet Russia.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=25595
title: Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras
uri: Illustrating-Carnival-Remembering-the-Overlooked-Artists-Behind-Early
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/02/07/illustrating-carnival-remembering-the-overlooked-artists-behind-early-mardi-gras/

content:
For more than 150 years the city of New Orleans has been known for the theatricality and extravagance of its Mardi Gras celebrations. Allison C. Meier looks at the wonderfully ornate float and costume designs from Carnival's "Golden Age" and the group of New Orleans artists who created them.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25590
title: Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)
uri: Details-from-Gustav-Klimt-s-The-Kiss-(1908)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/details-from-gustav-klimts-the-kiss-1908/
content:
Celebrating the centenary of Gustav Klimt's death with a selection of close-ups from his most famous painting.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25565
title: The Dances of the Ages (1913)
uri: The-Dances-of-the-Ages-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-dances-of-the-ages-1913/
content:
Miniaturised dancers give a history of dance from the stone-age to the early 20th century, all upon a table-top.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25544
title: Curiosities from the Museum of Giovanni Carafa (1778)
uri: Curiosities-from-the-Museum-of-Giovanni-Carafa-(1778)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/curiosities-from-the-museum-of-giovanni-carafa-1778/
content:
Fantastic depictions of various Roman antiquities from a wonderful catalogue of objects once found in the private museum of 18th-century antiquities collector Giovanni Carafa.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25524
title: Omega: The Last Days of the World (1894)
uri: Omega-The-Last-Days-of-the-World-(1894)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/omega-the-last-days-of-the-world-1894/
content:
Science fiction novel by astronomer Camille Flammarion, concerning a near comet miss and a vision of the earth's far distant future.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=25438
title: The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420
uri: The-Dreams-of-an-Inventor-in-1420
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/24/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420/
content:
Bennett Gilbert peruses a sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for a wide-range of fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels, and the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=26013
title: Pens and Needles: Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England
uri: Pens-and-Needles-Reviving-Book-Embroidery-in-Victorian-England
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/03/21/pens-and-needles-reviving-book-embroidery-in-victorian-england/

content:
Fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, from the middle-class drawing room to the Arts and Crafts movement. Jessica Roberson explores the bibliomania, patriotism, and issues around gender so central to the revival.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26006
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales, illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1921)
uri: Nathaniel-Hawthorne-s-Tanglewood-Tales-illustrated-by-Virginia-Fran
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/nathaniel-hawthornes-tanglewood-tales-illustrated-by-virginia-frances-sterrett-1921/

content:
Beautiful 1920s edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's version of Greek myths for children, with illustrations by Virginia Frances Sterrett.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25847
title: The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)
uri: The-Drolatic-Dreams-of-Pantagruel-(1565)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-drolatic-dreams-of-pantagruel-1565/
content:
Highlights from a book of 120 woodcuts depicting a series of fantastically bizarre and grotesque figures, reminiscent of some of the more inventive and twisted creations of Brueghel or Bosch.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25924
title: Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
uri: Napoleon-s-Englich-Lessons
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/napoleons-englich-lessons/
content:
While imprisoned on St Helena, Napoleon started learning English. One resident of the island called his English “the oddest in the world.”


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=25848
title: “Alas, Poor YORICK!”: The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne
uri: Alas-Poor-YORICK-The-Death-and-Life-of-Laurence-Sterne
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/03/07/alas-poor-yorick-the-death-and-life-of-laurence-sterne/
content:
On the 250th anniversary of Laurence Sterne's death, Ian Campbell Ross looks at the engagement with mortality so important to the novelist's groundbreaking work.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25844
title: Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
uri: Drawings-of-Tetradons-and-Diodons-(ca-1838-42)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/drawings-of-tetradons-and-diodons-ca-1838-42/
content:
Wonderful drawings of balloonfishes and pufferfishes made during, or shortly after, the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25808
title: Adeline Harris Sears’ Autographs Quilt (1856–ca.1863)
uri: Adeline-Harris-Sears-Autographs-Quilt-(1856-ca-1863)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/adeline-harris-sears-autographs-quilt-1856-ca-1863/
content:
Wonderful trompe l'oeil tumbling block design quilt incorporating signatures from such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rembrandt Peale, and Abraham Lincoln (one of eight American presidents represented).


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=25813
title: First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
uri: First-English-Edition-of-Michel-de-Montaigne-s-Essays-(1603)
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/first-english-edition-of-michel-de-montaignes-essays-1603/

content:
John Florio's translation of Michel de Montaigne's genre-forming Essays, including thoughts on grief, friendship, drunkenness, impotence, smells, death, and thumbs.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26109
uri: The-Diverting-History-of-John-Gilpin-Shewing-how-he-Went-Further-than
title:
The Diverting History of John Gilpin: Shewing how he Went Further than he Intended, and Came Safe Home Again (1782)

url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-diverting-history-of-john-gilpin-shewing-how-he-went-further-than-he-intended-and-came-safe-home-again-1782/

content:
A 1906 edition of William Cowper's famous ballad, illustrated with brilliantly comic woodcuts from Robert Seaver.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26114
title: The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature
uri: The-Egg-Dance-From-Peasant-Village-to-Political-Caricature
url:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-egg-dance-from-peasant-village-to-political-caricature/

content:
The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground or floor and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=26134
title: Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe
uri: Fallen-Angels-Birds-of-Paradise-in-Early-Modern-Europe
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/04/04/fallen-angels-birds-of-paradise-in-early-modern-europe/
content:
When birds of paradise first arrived to Europe, as dried specimens with legs and wings removed, they were seen in almost mythical terms — as angelic beings forever airborne, nourished by dew and the "nectar" of sunlight. Natalie Lawrence looks at how European naturalists of the 16th and 17th centuries attempted to make sense of these entirely novel and exotic creatures from the East.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26193
title: Swedish House-Gymnastics (1913)
uri: Swedish-House-Gymnastics-(1913)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/swedish-house-gymnastics-1913/
content:
These wonderful photographs, which make such innovative use of multiple exposure, are from a 1913 book by Theodor Bergquist, Director of the Swedish Gymnastic Institute in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Wörishofen.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26209
title: The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)
uri: The-Book-of-Exposition-A-Collection-of-15th-Century-Erotica-from-the
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-book-of-exposition/
content:
A collection of fifteenth-century erotica from the Middle East, translated with a lengthy opening essay by the anonymous English Bohemian.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26218
title: Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922)
uri: Häxan-Witchcraft-Through-The-Ages-(1922)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922/
content:
Curious and groundbreaking mix of documentary and silent horror cinema, written and directed by Benjamin Christensen.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26301
title: Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)
uri: Hans-Holbein-s-Dance-of-Death-(1523-5)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hans-holbeins-dance-of-death-1523-5/
content:
Holbein's series of action-packed scenes in which Death intrudes on the everyday lives of people from various levels of society — from pope to physician to ploughman.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=26338
title: Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London
uri: Made-in-Taiwan-How-a-Frenchman-Fooled-18th-Century-London
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/04/18/made-in-taiwan-how-a-frenchman-fooled-18th-century-london/
content:
Benjamin Breen on the remarkable story of George Psalmanazar, the mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now modern Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated culture with bizarre customs, exotic fashions, and its own invented language.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26430
title: Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
uri: Letters-to-Dead-Authors-(1886)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/letters-to-dead-authors-1886/
content:
Twenty-two letters written by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) to bards, poets, and novelists from Homer to Rabelais to Austen.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26495
title: First recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1909)
uri: First-recording-of-Swing-Low-Sweet-Chariot-(1909)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/first-recording-of-swing-low-sweet-chariot-1909/
content:
First known recording of the popular African American spiritual performed in 1909 for Victor Studios by the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=26519
title: Iconology of a Cardinal: Was Wolsey Really so Large?
uri: Iconology-of-a-Cardinal-Was-Wolsey-Really-so-Large
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/05/03/iconology-of-a-cardinal-was-wolsey-really-so-large/
content:
Characterised as manipulative, power-hungry, and even an <em>alter rex</em>, Henry VIII's right-hand man Cardinal Thomas Wolsey has been typically depicted with a body mass to rival his political weight. Katherine Harvey asks whether he was really the glutton of popular legend, and what such an image reveals about the link between the body, reputation, and power in Tudor England.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26588
title: The Philosophy of Beards (1854)
uri: The-Philosophy-of-Beards-(1854)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-philosophy-of-beards-1854/
content:
Eccentric Victorian book arguing a strong case for the universal wearing of a beard – that essential symbol of manly distinction since ancient times.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26593
title: Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)
uri: Mnemonic-Alphabet-of-Jacobus-Publicius-(1482)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mnemonic-alphabet-of-jacobus-publicius-1482/
content:
Illustrated alphabet, used to aid memory, in which each letter is paired with an object (in some case more than one) which echoes its shape.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26605
title: Maps Showing California as an Island
uri: Maps-Showing-California-as-an-Island
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/maps-showing-california-as-an-island/
content:
California used to be thought of as an island. This stunning collection of 17th- and 18th-century maps illustrates how.


feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=26612
title: Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia
uri: Exquisite-Rot-Spalted-Wood-and-the-Lost-Art-of-Intarsia
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/05/16/exquisite-rot-spalted-wood-and-the-lost-art-of-intarsia/
content:
The technique of intarsia — the fitting together of pieces of intricately cut wood to make often complex images — has produced some of the most awe-inspiring pieces of Renaissance craftsmanship. Daniel Elkind explores the history of this masterful art, and how an added dash of colour arose from a most unlikely source: lumber ridden with fungus.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26671
title: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Strange Stories
uri: E-T-A-Hoffmann-s-Strange-Stories
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/e-t-a-hoffmanns-strange-stories/
content:
English translation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Nachtstücke published in 1816, a collection of supernatural horror short stories including his classic The Sandman.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26709
title: The Sky: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)
uri: The-Sky-A-Film-Lesson-in-Nature-Study-(1928)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-sky-a-film-lesson-in-nature-study-1928/
content:
Short educational film on what can be seen in the night sky through a telescope, including a look at constellations, the mountains of the moon, the planets, and the sun.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26785
title: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Adventures in Scandinavia
uri: Mary-Wollstonecraft-s-Adventures-in-Scandinavia
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mary-wollstonecrafts-adventures-in-scandinavia/
content:
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, the book produced after the radical philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft took her infant daughter in 1795 on an expedition through Scandinavia in search of stolen treasure.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26790
title: Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish
uri: Ernst-Haeckel-s-Jellyfish
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ernst-haeckels-jellyfish/
content:
Haeckel's stunning illustrations of medusae, in whose ethereal forms he glimpsed a reflection of his first wife, who died tragically at the age of 29.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?p=26818
title: Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print
uri: Early-Modern-Memes-The-Reuse-and-Recycling-of-Woodcuts-in-17th-Centur
url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/2018/06/06/early-modern-memes-the-reuse-and-recycling-of-woodcuts-in-17th-century-english-popular-print/

content:
Expensive and laborious to produce, a single woodcut could be recycled to illustrate hundreds of different ballads, each new home imbuing the same image with often wildly diverse meanings. Katie Sisneros explores this interplay of repetition, context, and meaning, and how in it can be seen a parallel with the meme culture of today.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26673
title: Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library
uri: Fore-Edge-Book-Paintings-from-the-Boston-Public-Library
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fore-edge-book-paintings-from-the-boston-public-library/
content:
Wonderful examples of "fore-edge painting", where an illustration or design appears on the "fore-edge" of a book.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26908
title: British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)
uri: British-Goblins-Welsh-Folk-lore-Fairy-Mythology-Legends-and-Traditi
url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/british-goblins-welsh-folk-lore-fairy-mythology-legends-and-traditions-1880/

content:
Wirt Sikes, US consul to Cardiff from 1876 to 1883, describes the mythology and traditions of Wales, a land steeped in folklore.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/?post_type=collections&p=26924
title: 1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (1870)
uri: 1970-A-Vision-of-the-Coming-Age-(1870)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/1970-a-vision-of-the-coming-age-1870/
content:
A vision of the world hundred years in the future, in which societies have been transformed into Quakerly perfection.


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2019/11/welcome-to-our-shiny-new-website
title: Welcome to our shiny new website!
uri: Welcome-to-our-shiny-new-website
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2019/11/welcome-to-our-shiny-new-website
content:
<p>After many months of secret toil and aesthetic deliberation, we are very proud to launch our brand new site — a total refurb from the ground up!</p>


title: D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)
uri: D-A-Rovinskii-s-Collection-of-Russian-Lubki-(18th-19th-Century)
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th–19th-century

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th–19th-century

content:
<p>A selection of D. A. Rovinskiĭ’s collection of lubki — colorful Russian prints from the 16th through 20th century.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/loie-fuller-and-the-serpentine
title: Loie Fuller and the Serpentine
uri: Loie-Fuller-and-the-Serpentine
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/loie-fuller-and-the-serpentine
content:
<p>With her &quot;serpentine dance&quot; — a show of swirling silk and rainbow lights — Loie Fuller became one of the most celebrated dancers of the fin de siècle. Rhonda K. Garelick explores Fuller’s unlikely stardom and how her beguiling art embodied the era&#39;s newly blurred boundaries between human and machine.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-geometric-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567
title: The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)
uri: The-Geometric-Landscapes-of-Lorenz-Stoer-(1567)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-geometric-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567
content:
<p>Lorenz Stoer’s wildly imaginative depictions of polyhedral shapes and fantastical ruins intended to instruct and inspire woodworkers.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-reynolds-book-of-murder-tales-1621-1635
title: John Reynolds’ Book of Murder Tales (1621–1635)
uri: John-Reynolds-Book-of-Murder-Tales-(1621-1635)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-reynolds-book-of-murder-tales-1621-1635
content:
<p>An illustrated collection of murder tales from the early 17th century, including the basis for the Jacobean play The Changeling.</p>


title: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal (1847)
uri: Dorothy-Wordsworth-s-Journal-of-a-Few-Months-Residence-in-Portuga
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dorothy-wordsworths-journal-of-a-few-months-residence-in-portugal-1847

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dorothy-wordsworths-journal-of-a-few-months-residence-in-portugal-1847

content:
<p>A lively travelogue by William Wordsworth’s daughter Dorothy, recording her observations of the Iberian peninsula, circa 1845.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-dark-nadars-descent-into-the-paris-catacombs
title: Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs
uri: Photographing-the-Dark-Nadar-s-Descent-into-the-Paris-Catacombs
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-dark-nadars-descent-into-the-paris-catacombs
content:
<p>Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended into this “empire of death” in the 1860s artificial lighting was still in its infancy: the pioneering photographer had to face the quandary of how to take photographs in the subterranean dark. Allison C. Meier explores Nadar’s determined efforts (which involved Bunsen batteries, mannequins, and a good deal of patience) to document the beauty and terror of this realm of the dead.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921
title: Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)
uri: Persian-Demons-from-a-Book-of-Magic-and-Astrology-(1921)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921
content:
<p>Watercolours from an early twentieth-century book of spells depicting Persian demons associated with the zodiac.</p>


title: Various Apocalyptic Scenes from the Prophetic Messenger (ca. 1827–61)
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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/various-apocalyptic-scenes-from-the-prophetic-messenger-ca-1827-61

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/various-apocalyptic-scenes-from-the-prophetic-messenger-ca-1827-61

content:
<p>Apocalyptic lithographs from the 19th century golden age of astrology, helmed by several astrologists writing under the name Raphael.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tlingit-myths-and-texts-1909
title: Tlingit Myths and Texts (1909)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tlingit-myths-and-texts-1909
content:
<p>A collection of tales told by the Tlingit people of southeastern coastal Alaska and collected by the renowned ethnographer John Reed Swanton.</p>


title: Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life: In Pursuit of the “Real” Chateaubriand
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https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/our-masterpiece-is-the-private-life-in-pursuit-of-the-real-chateaubriand

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/our-masterpiece-is-the-private-life-in-pursuit-of-the-real-chateaubriand

content:
<p>While nowadays he might be best known for the cut of meat that bears his name, François-René de Chateaubriand was once one of the most famous men in France — a giant of the literary scene and idolised by such future greats as Alphonse de Lamartine and Victor Hugo. Alex Andriesse explores Chateaubriand&#39;s celebrity and the glimpse behind the public mask we are given in his epic autobiography <em>Memoirs From Beyond the Grave</em>.</p>


title: First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
uri: First-Paper-to-Link-CO2-and-Global-Warming-by-Eunice-Foote-(1856)
content: <p>The first paper to link carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and earth heating.</p>
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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-narrative-of-henry-box-brown-1849
title: The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849)
uri: The-Narrative-of-Henry-Box-Brown-(1849)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-narrative-of-henry-box-brown-1849
content:
<p>Account of a Virginian slave&#39;s daring escape from his plantation in a box and subsequent life as a free man.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/greenland-unicorns-and-the-magical-alicorn
title: Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn
uri: Greenland-Unicorns-and-the-Magical-Alicorn
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/greenland-unicorns-and-the-magical-alicorn
content:
<p>When the existence of unicorns, and the curative powers of the horns ascribed to them, began to be questioned, one Danish physician pushed back through curious means — by reframing the unicorn as an aquatic creature of the northern seas. Natalie Lawrence on a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/buffon-and-de-seves-quadrupeds-1754
title: Buffon and de Sève’s Quadrupeds (1754)
uri: Buffon-and-de-Sève-s-Quadrupeds-(1754)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/buffon-and-de-seves-quadrupeds-1754
content:
<p>Colorful illustrations of four-legged creatures first included in Buffon’s pioneering eighteenth-century books on natural history.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chester-hardings-my-egotistigraphy-1866
title: Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)
uri: Chester-Harding-s-My-Egotistigraphy-(1866)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chester-hardings-my-egotistigraphy-1866
content:
<p>Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents, congressmen, philanthropists, and Daniel Boone.</p>


title: John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868)
uri: John-O-Westwood-s-Facsimiles-of-Anglo-Saxon-and-Irish-Manuscripts-(
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-o-westwoods-facsimiles-of-anglo-saxon-and-irish-manuscripts-1868

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-o-westwoods-facsimiles-of-anglo-saxon-and-irish-manuscripts-1868

content:
<p>Impressive Victorian lithographs of Anglo-Saxon and early Irish illuminated manuscripts from the dark ages and early medieval period.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodblocks-in-wonderland-the-japanese-fairy-tale-series
title: Woodblocks in Wonderland: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series
uri: Woodblocks-in-Wonderland-The-Japanese-Fairy-Tale-Series
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodblocks-in-wonderland-the-japanese-fairy-tale-series
content:
<p>From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series of beautifully illustrated books, the majority printed on an unusual cloth-like crepe paper, the publisher Takejiro Hasegawa introduced Japanese folk tales to the West. Christopher DeCou on how a pioneering cross-cultural endeavour gave rise to a magnificent chapter in the history of children&#39;s publishing.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/octave-uzannes-the-end-of-books-1894
title: Octave Uzanne’s “The End of Books” (1894)
uri: Octave-Uzanne-s-The-End-of-Books-(1894)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/octave-uzannes-the-end-of-books-1894
content:
<p>Over a century before the invention of the e-reader, a French bibliophile imagines how advances in phonographic technology might spell the end of all printed text.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america
title: John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America
uri: John-Margolies-Photographs-of-Roadside-America
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america
content:
<p>Remarkable collection of photographs documenting the eccentric roadside architecture and ephemera of America.</p>


title: The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)
uri: The-History-of-Burke-and-Hare-and-of-the-Resurrectionist-Times-(1884)
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-burke-and-hare-and-of-the-resurrectionist-times-1884

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-burke-and-hare-and-of-the-resurrectionist-times-1884

content:
<p>An account of the early serial killers, Burke and Hare, and the medical demand for corpses that fueled these murders.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/brilliant-visions-peyote-among-the-aesthetes
title: Brilliant Visions: Peyote among the Aesthetes
uri: Brilliant-Visions-Peyote-among-the-Aesthetes
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/brilliant-visions-peyote-among-the-aesthetes
content:
<p>Used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia, it was only in the last decade of the 19th century that the powerful effects of mescaline began to be systematically explored by curious non-indigenous Americans and Europeans. Mike Jay looks at one such pioneer Havelock Ellis who, along with his small circle of fellow artists and writers, documented in wonderful detail his psychedelic experiences.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-golfers-rubaiyat-and-other-20th-century-parodies
title: The Golfer’s Rubáiyát and other 20th-Century Parodies
uri: The-Golfer-s-Rubáiyát-and-other-20th-Century-Parodies
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-golfers-rubaiyat-and-other-20th-century-parodies
content:
<p>The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has inspired parodies by cat lovers and car lovers. But it seems to have found a special place in the hearts of golfers.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-unicorn-tapestries-1495-1505
title: The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)
uri: The-Unicorn-Tapestries-(1495-1505)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-unicorn-tapestries-1495-1505
content:
<p>The enigmatic story of the Unicorn Tapestries, whose multifarious medieval symbolism still beguiles.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edgar-allan-poes-the-gold-bug-1843
title: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)
uri: Edgar-Allan-Poe-s-The-Gold-Bug-(1843)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edgar-allan-poes-the-gold-bug-1843
content:
<p>Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-lears-nonsense-botany-1871-77
title: Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)
uri: Edward-Lear-s-Nonsense-Botany-(1871-77)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-lears-nonsense-botany-1871-77
content:
<p>The Victorian artist and writer turns his peculiar brand of verbal and visual invention to the world of plant taxonomy.</p>


