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Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes4 Feb 2026
Titled Sekka Zusetsu (雪華図説), this 1832 book of woodblock prints by Doi Toshitsura (1789–1848) reflects twenty years of a life devoted to “snow flowers” (sekka).
Public Domain Reviewby Colin Dickey3 Feb 2026
A wide gulf exists in our imagination between the Spiritualism of the nineteenth century and the post–WWII era of UFOs and interplanetary visitors.
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit27 Jan 2026
“Can this be an automobile?” “Looks more like a four-wheeled beetle.” The literal “auto”-biographical narrator of this 1943 World War II propaganda film is quite honest with us that these kinds of...
Public Domain Reviewby D Graham Burnett21 Jan 2026
Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D.
Public Domain Reviewby Natalie Lawrence; Hunter Dukes21 Jan 2026
In 1594, the engraver Jacques de Fornazeris created a striking flight of nine bird portraits. The series marries technical flair with theatrical charm: the specimens are rendered in rich detail and...
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes20 Jan 2026
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) Between 1900 and 1922, Theosophist and meteorologist Clement Lindley Wragge gave countless magic lantern lectures...
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit13 Jan 2026
“Many a man and many a woman have accomplished a great life-work without having led a great life”, the influential Danish literary critic Georg Brandes wrote in his introduction to Peter...
Public Domain Review1 Jan 2026
The calendar turns, and once again a lively procession of books, images, films, and music leaves copyright behind and steps into the ever-growing public domain!
Public Domain Review28 Dec 2025
It’s that time in December when we inevitably end up asking the question: what, exactly, captured people’s attention over the past year? The list below is one answer.
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