Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona. (1914-03)

#map #cartography #publicdomain

http://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn00138_004/

How Man Made Day

#foundfootage #vintagefilm #publicdomain

https://archive.org/details/how_man_made_day

Springfield, Illinois 1867
By: Chicago Lithographing Co

#map #antiquemaps #publicdomain

http://www.loc.gov/item/73693374/

Middlebury, Vt (1886)
By: Burleigh, L. R.

#map #antiquemaps #publicdomain

http://www.loc.gov/item/75696627/

#publicdomain day 259:

The Old Swimming Hole (1921)
With no title cards, I am completely confused by this film. Is it about guy that gets in conflict with another guy mostly over a girl? Just completely dumbfounded by this silent film. YouTube video has terrible image quality too.

Cameramen set up in Supreme Court chamber. Washington, D.C., Oct. 4. A precedent was established today when cameramen were allowed to set up their cameras and lights in the U.S… (19]37 October 4)

#1930s #portrait #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hec/item/2016872416/

African American boy, full-length portrait, standing, facing front with left hand resting on table (1899 or 1900)
By: Askew, Thomas E., 1850?-1914

#AnselAdams #landscape #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub/item/99472081/

And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door (1769) by Thomas Patch.

Source: @metmuseum.org

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7abb82bd-e03f-4735-b0ce-56b61b8b0412

#mortality #death #skeletons #hourglasses #consumption #skulls #etching #art #publicdomain

The Georgia Negro Negro population of Georgia by counties. 1890. (c. 1900)

#AnselAdams #landscape #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub/item/2013650424/

Panorama of Lake Tahoe from the tavern wharf (c. 1906)
By: Pillsbury Picture Co.

#panorama #cityscape #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan/item/2007660740/

Illustration by John Bulwer, from Chirologia, or the Naturall Language of the Hand (1644).

Source: @folger.edu

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6b665dfc-793c-4c70-8971-db76bec62e10

#hands #language #gesture #symbolism #communication #iconography #diagrams #woodcut #art #publicdomain

Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform (c. 1861-1865)

#CivilWar #portrait #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2010650474/

Dominican Truce. Cease-Fire Brings Calm To Island, 1965/05/06
By: Universal Studios

#newsreel #vintagefilm #publicdomain

https://archive.org/details/1965-05-06_Dominican_Truce

#publicdomain day 258:

Maniac (1934)
A mad scientist tries to bring the dead back to life but is a bit too crazy to do the actual science behind the magic.

Where did this film came from? The sex, nudity, gore, crazed man shown here must have been the most taboo breaking of it’s time