#public-domain — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #public-domain, aggregated by home.social.
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Public Domain Image Archive, provided by Public Domain Review, is a great archive of images in public domain (and with a good layout).
#usefulweb #website #publicdomain #archive #publicdomainimage #image #illustration
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Buddhist rebus-style text from Japan (Early 20th century), from Hymn of Praise to Kannon for the Illiterate (Kannon mekura wasan).
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95938ada-b100-47da-80a5-b71cf7ececc8
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #art #publicdomain
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(Volume 10, pg. 6) (1924), from Unai no tomo.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5f6c28f7-8505-49dc-bd1e-5c132274cff8
#childhood #toys #japan #magnets #children #mice #design #play #art #publicdomain
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RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 vintage sci-fi, horror, filmstrips, and ephemera
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
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RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 vintage sci-fi, horror, filmstrips, and ephemera
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
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RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 vintage sci-fi, horror, filmstrips, and ephemera
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?
The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!
Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.
Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!
Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90
Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
#BookLook #books #CharlesDickens #Classics #GeorgeEliot #GreatestNovels #Guardian #JaneAusten #publicDomain #readings #VirginiaWoolf -
From Kunstrichtige Schreibart (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ad7e0c32-e8e9-48a2-b01e-9bb6bee98583
#type #alphabets #decorative #letters #calligraphy #typography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain
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Vertical Section of the Brain (1878), from The Principles of Light and Color
.Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cc415b4a-9c7a-4ac3-996e-8b47b40259d3
#anatomical-illustration #ether #color #brain #psychic-phenomena #color-theory #art #publicdomain
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The Habitations of the Sentient Beings According to the Burmese (1906) by Anonymous, from The Thirty-Seven Nats: A Phase of Spirit Worship Prevailing in Burma.
Source: New York Public Library
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/34463de9-7c93-475d-9bc0-2c7c2d7097a0
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“A spider from a fly’s point of view”. (1914) by David Fairchild, Marian Fairchild, from Book of Monsters.
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d786d062-24c8-4548-bf9a-6a6d7b5c1669
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Project Gutenberg has always striven for perfection in the effort to digitize public domain books. Everyone who reads the materials and catches a possible transcription or OCR error is encouraged to help us get the details fixed.
Learn more: https://www.gutenberg.org/help/errata.html
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The Last Hurdle (ca. 1902) by Heinrich Hamann, from Turnverein.
Source: MKG Collection Online
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95db6309-0b19-4159-a05e-71937e655ee5
#turnerism #exercise #germany #gymnastics #turnverein #sport #art #publicdomain
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Guide for Constructing the Letters c and d (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.
Source: The Getty
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a1d26df5-4405-452c-baf0-1f5f42eede4a
#vases #monkeys #manuscripts #foliage #decorations #art #publicdomain
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Congrats to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM" by Harry Goodwin, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬
Dreamers and dreamlike imagery from seven 1930 films accompanied by the filmmaker’s own recording of "Dream a Little Dream of Me."
Watch the full short film ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/dream-a-little-dream... -
From Anvār-i Suhaylī (1847).
Source: The Walters Art Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/add09bc7-52c1-4182-a4a6-2f38e60576df
#panchatantra #baskets #persia #dogs #animals #mountains #iran #birds #trees #landscapes #fables #art #publicdomain
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🌈 MOROCCO (1930) gave us one of cinema’s most unforgettable moments of style, rebellion, and same-sex desire, long before queer cinema had a name. 🎩
Join us at the Internet Archive in San Francisco for a live screening of this classic. Now in the #publicdomain!
📅 June 9
🕠 5:30 PM: Happy Hour and a Half 🍸
🕖 7:00 PM: Pre-Show + Screening + Q&A
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/morocco-top-hat-tails-film-screening-at-the-internet-archive/ -
A Little Duck (1856) by Charles H. Bennett, from Shadows.
Source: Harvard University
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3083aecd-ff2f-429a-a456-178c045d2a68
#metaphor #shadows #victorian #physiognomy #ducks #art #publicdomain
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RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 vintage sci-fi, horror, filmstrips, and ephemera
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
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The Petronas Twin Towers At Night (2008)
#PublicDomain #Photo #Photography #PetronasTowers #KualaLumpur #Malaysia #Asia
#Image attribution: Gryffindor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petronas_KL_pano.jpg.
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Illustration by W. W. Denslow, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ad06a70d-4ec1-4ac0-b982-bed87ee53620
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Tsuba made from yellow bronze with silver inlaid grid pattern and a large butterfly in high shakudō relief. (1916) by Georg Oeder, from Japanische Stichblätter und Schwertzieraten.
Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2d2b07c9-72ef-410f-a6f0-d2ccbf48220f
#insects #japan #samurai #flies #swords #metalwork #design #circular #tsubas #art #publicdomain
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Bomen met bloesem | Trees in blossom
#Wassenaar #ZuidHolland #Holland #Nederland #Netherlands #Niederlande #Bloemen #Flowers #Blumen #Bloesem #Blossom #Blühte #Bomen #Trees #Baüme #Lente #Spring #Frühling #Fotografie #Photography #Snapshot #PublicDomain
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXO-Zm-CIrX/ via #Instagram
📷 CC by @reinoud
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The Advocate (1523–5) by Hans Holbein, from Der Totentanz.
Source: Rijksmuseum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7815702f-8b16-4df0-9e43-1e6dd7a5748a
#cobblestones #woodcuts #handshakes #death #skeletons #art #publicdomain
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How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/12/anais-nin-d-h-lawrence/
