Unidentified soldier in Union captain's uniform with artillery saber (c. 1861-1865)

#CivilWar #portrait #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2010650315/

"A tribute to the anti-slacker mentality of decades past."
— big texas cheeseburger, archive.org

You and Your Work (1948)

Young Frank Taylor loathes working at a shoe store, but discovers that he is…

Free to watch: https://archivewatch.org/item/you_and_your_work

#PublicDomain #ClassicFilm

Muscles of the Back (1745) by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty'.

Source: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/457d5fff-644a-41d4-942d-b42b4c3649ba

#portraits #mezzotint #art #publicdomain

Torpedoes Launched From Air, 1933/10/23
By: Universal Studios

#newsreel #vintagefilm #publicdomain

https://archive.org/details/1933-10-23_Torpedoes_Launched_From_Air

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8a111111-1e6f-47c4-bc64-d5833fea6637

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #engraving #art #publicdomain

In March 2025, #Oxford announced that it was working with #OpenAI to digitize #PublicDomain #books from the #BodleianLibrary.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/oxford-and-openai-launch

The announcement says that the digitized works "will become searchable and accessible for students and […]

Daniel Miessler — of, amongst other things, the highly-recommended newsletter, Unsupervised Learning — has created a site for easily reading the Jim Legge translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: https://theteching.io/

Neat! :)

#publicdomain #philosophy #taoteching

#publicdomain day 263:

Our Hospitality (1923)
Buster Keaton unknowingly inherits both his dead father’s country mansion and a decades long family against another family feud.
Keaton again proves why he was a master of comedy despite that stoneface.

Joe Weber's burlesque of The merry widow by arrangement with Henry W. Savage ; original music by Franz Lehar ; book by Geo. V. Hobart ; staged by Julian… (c. 1908)

#theatre #vaudeville #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/var/item/2014635796/

The Ash Yggdrasil (1886) by Lørenz Frolich, from Asgard and the Gods.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d71b4451-13f6-4aa9-adda-d662bd421935

#ash #yggdrasil #trees #mythology #serpents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right (1899 or 1900)

#AnselAdams #landscape #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub/item/99472131/

Trout (ca. 1835) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/dd9b9b98-6eda-4908-abb0-e91b0a4239bc

#seals #ukiyoe #aquatic #fish #japan #hiroshige #calligraphy #woodblock #art #publicdomain

#publicdomain day 262:

Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Army guys go on the hunt for John Brown.
Pure confederacy propaganda. The free slaves are even shown as declaring out loud that slavery wasn’t bad

Counting Down

#foundfootage #vintagefilm #publicdomain

https://archive.org/details/CountingDown

Ferry Field, Ann Arbor, Mich., Pennsylvania vs. Michigan, Nov. 16, 1907
By: Geo. R. Lawrence Co.

#panorama #cityscape #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan/item/2007660406/