Public Domain Review

@PublicDomainRev

Online journal and cabinet of curiosities dedicated to showcasing the most beautiful and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web.

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    22. sij

    NEW ESSAY — "Emma Willard's Maps of Time", Susan Schulten on the pioneering feminist educator and mapmaker whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the infographics of today:

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  2. "McCarthyism at the Oscars": As José Ferrer was being handed his Oscar — making him the first Latino actor to win — he was being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee. New post from :

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  3. Hypnotic arabesque patterns from Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73), a book showcasing decorative arts from around the world in woodwork, metalwork, architecture, textiles, painting, and pottery. More here:

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    The celebrates the richness of the public domain and is also "just a fun place to showcase and explore the unusual treasures that history has to offer." —EIC Adam Green, in conversation with

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  5. Proper Norwegian headwear (19th century). More hand-coloured photographs of Norwegian folk dress by Marcus Selmer here:

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  6. 3. velj

    The Drunkard’s Progress, ca. 1846. A satirical take on the German “Lebenstreppe” or “Stufenalter” — “The Steps of Life” — in which the course of a person’s life is shown in divisible stages, ascending and then descending steps. Buy as a print here:

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  7. 3. velj

    Bess Lovejoy explores the treatment and mistreatment of Julia Pastrana, one of the most famous "human curiosities" of the 19th century, who was only laid to rest in 2013, 153 years after her passing:

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  8. 3. velj

    Richard Millington on the role drugs played in the life and work of Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl, who was born in 1887:

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  9. 2. velj

    Emma Willard's “Perspective Sketch of the Course of Empire”, 1835. In this groundbreaking visualisation Willard attempts to find a way to represent the way in which individuals experience the past relative to their own lives. More in our latest essay:

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  10. 2. velj

    The Hand of Sabazius — from a wonderful catalogue published in 1778, featuring objects once found in the private museum of 18th-century antiquities collector Giovanni Carafa. More here:

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  11. 2. velj

    Happy birthday James Augustine Aloysius Joyce! Born in Dublin in 1882. Celebrate with a listen to him reading his very own work (excerpts from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake) in two rare recordings from the 1920s:

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  12. 1. velj

    From our Conjectures series: "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", by

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  13. 1. velj

    After a long struggle with illness, Mary Shelley died in 1851. Read about the science behind her most famous novel, Frankenstein, including investigations into resuscitation, galvanism and the possibility of states between life + death:

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  14. 1. velj

    Typical winter's day in this entry for in the Labors of the Months section from the Très Riches Heures (15th.c). Some peasants get warm by the fire, another chops wood + another leaves for market. Above, an arguably redundant Phoebus...

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  15. 31. sij

    Ship of Fools. At the start of his career, as a young man in his 20s, Albrecht Dürer created a series of woodcuts to illustrate Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools of 1494. Rangsook Yoon explores the significance of these early pieces:

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  16. 31. sij

    Detail from an anthropomorphised map of Europe in 1870. Britain is an old woman, “isolated and fuming with rage”, turning away from the mainland, almost forgetting, as the caption tells us, about Ireland, the cute dog she keeps on a leash:

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  17. 30. sij

    J. J. Grandville illustration from Public and Private Life of Animals, a collection of acerbic animal fables, originally published in 1842. Read the English translation, and see many more of Grandville's wonderful illustrations for it, here

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  18. 30. sij

    Landscape near Rome during a Storm (ca. 1786–1806), by Simon Denis. From a selection of rainbows in art, spanning 800 years:

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  19. 30. sij

    In Greenwich Village, there used to be “sand hills, sometimes rising to a height of 100 feet, while to the south was a marsh tenanted by wild fowl and crossed by a brook flowing from the north.” More deep history of NYC in Charles Hemstreet’s 1899 book:

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  20. 30. sij

    Hypnotees after handing control to mischievous hypnotists (ca. 1900). More diverting scenes here:

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  21. 28. sij

    in 1868, the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter died by suicide. Thomas Mann called him “one of the most extraordinary... and strangely gripping narrators in world literature”. Read his highly-praised novella "Rock Crystal"here:

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