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Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
Double page spread from Hamonshu (1903), a Japanese book of wave and ripple designs that would have acted as a kind of go-to guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to adorn their wares with such patterns. See all three volumes of the work here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hamonshu-a-japanese-book-of-wave-and-ripple-designs-1903
Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks
Entering the public domain in 2026, in countries with "life+70yrs" copyright: The works of Charlie Parker.
More info behind window 12 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
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:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nooks-and-corners-of-old-new-york
Hare and hedgehog costumes, from the 1862 fairytale-themed ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maskenfest/
Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #otd
From 1903 to 1907 Augustus Jansson produced more than 30 striking adverts for the Queen City Printing Ink Company, including the wonderful Ink Beasts Parade series, with its "Magenta Ponies" and "Orange-Yellow Ibexiaticus". More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/augustus-janssons-queen-city-ink-adverts-1903-1907
“Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000”, a circa 1902 illustration by French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, novelist, and all around futurologist, Albert Robida.
More on the print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000?utm_content=buffer92bb8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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