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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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.
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As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger ...
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Marvels, wonders, and monstrosities: something between a medieval bestiary and a scientific treatise on birth defects.
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One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.
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Moneymaking caricatures by a teenage Monet, before he turned to Impressionism.
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In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patie...
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"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.
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A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.
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Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.
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Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For ...
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Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.