The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/blogAn online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.
Entries
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Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915)...
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69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.
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Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
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A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.
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Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Soil.
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Legal infographics that reflect a Turkish nation in flux.
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In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the ...
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Photographs of flowers by an advocate of California’s beauty.
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Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.
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Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.
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Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Al...
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A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.
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A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.
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The working class undergirds everything in this cartoon of capitalist society.
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What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp...
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Lantern slide of man battling bug.
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An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.
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Announcing an exciting new book series!
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A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.
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The creator of WNYC's Public Song Project on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.