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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.

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💾 We often think of online platforms as permanent homes for our photos & videos. They're not. On the Future Knowledge #podcast #VanishingCulture series, Luca Messarra explains why relying on them puts our cultural memory at risk. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

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🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this #LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence. Learn how we're highlighting documents, recordings, and artifacts that tell the story of America's founding👇 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

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📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first published copy of the Declaration of Independence, carrying news of independence across the colonies. See more remarkable items from the Internet Archive's collections👇 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t... #AmericanHistory

The Dunlap Broadside of the United States Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia by John Dunlap on July 4, 1776. The document is headed "In Congress, July 4, 1776" and titled "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled." The full text of the Declaration is set in period typefaces, opening with the "When in the Course of human Events" preamble and proceeding through the statement of self-evident truths, the list of grievances against the British Crown, and the formal declaration of independence. The document is signed in print by John Hancock as President and attested by Charles Thomson as Secretary, with the imprint "Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap" at the bottom. The broadside is printed on aged cream-colored paper.A close-up detail of the Dunlap Broadside showing the opening of the Declaration of Independence. Partial header text reads "United S[tates]" and "In Gene[ral Congress]." A large decorative drop capital "W" begins the preamble, followed by the text "HEN in the Course of" and continuing lines including "We hold these Truths," "unalienable Rights," "instituted among Men, deriving their just Pow[ers]," and "it is the Right of the People to alter," ending with the opening grievances "He has refused his Assent to Laws" and "He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws." The 18th-century typeface shows the characteristic long-s letterforms of the period. Printed on aged cream paper.
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🖥️📜 How has the online presentation of the Declaration of Independence changed over nearly 30 years? Compare these Wayback Machine captures of the National Archives webpage. It's one of many items we're highlighting as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "Declaration of Independence on National Archives". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the National Archives Declaration of Independence page from June 6, 1997, and June 4, 2026.
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🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe's THE FLAG (1918) is a striking watercolor painted during World War I. It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸 Learn more: blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t... #Americanhistory

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☎️📖 At Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesquicentennial (150 years) Exposition, the Bell Telephone System celebrated 50 years of the telephone with a booklet written from the telephone’s first-person perspective. 🇺🇸 See more American highlights in our blog 👇 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t... #AmericanHistory

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🎬 What can the unlikely rise of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE teach us about preserving culture? The Future Knowledge #podcast begins its special series on #VanishingCulture with Luca Messarra, who explores why our digital heritage disappears. 🎧 Listen ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

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🎬 In 1975, John Wayne urged Americans to celebrate the upcoming Bicentennial by investing in U.S. Savings Bonds. It's one of many fascinating items we're highlighting from the Internet Archive's collections as America marks its 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸 Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

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4️⃣/4️⃣ 🤝 This collection exists because libraries, archives, and universities across Canada chose to digitize & openly share their collections. They've created a free resource for researchers, students, teachers, family historians, and curious readers around the world. @internetarchiveca.bsky.social

A full two-page watercolor spread from the Katchewanooka Herald depicting a farmyard scene. On the left, a horse-drawn cart carries three passengers — a man in a top hat with a whip, a woman in a red dress, and a child — while several men and boys stand reverently watching nearby. In the center background stand a white clapboard house and a large barn or shed. To the right, two large brown and white longhorn cows graze, accompanied by pigs, dogs, cats, and a chicken. Between the two scenes, two small cats face each other with the handwritten caption "Alas she's gone." The paper is aged with creases and torn corners.
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3️⃣/4️⃣ 📖 The collection spans more than 500 years, from a 1475 edition of St. Augustine's De civitate Dei to underground newspapers, government reports, and community publications from the 20th century. 🌍 It also reflects Canada's diversity, with materials in about 90 languages.

Cover of Uruttirākka viḷakkam (oḻukka nūl pirivu 2), published in Madras in 1918, printed by Hoe & Co. at the Premier Press, Stringer's Street, Georgetown. The title and text are in Tamil script. An oval photographic portrait is centered on the page, captioned "Thudisaikizhar A. Chidambara Mupp." — the author, identified below in Tamil as Thudisaikizhar, A. Chidambaranar, with credentials M.T.A.S., M.S.S.C., and M.T.S. The cover is printed on aged orange-toned paper with a decorative floral border.Title page of Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI — Nicolaus Copernicus's foundational work on heliocentric astronomy, in six books. The Latin text describes the work's contents, including tables of stellar and planetary motion based on ancient and recent observations, and notes an accompanying first account (Narratio prima) by Georg Joachim Rheticus. A woodcut printer's device depicting a flowering plant with billowing foliage is centered on the page, above the imprint "Basileae, Ex Officina Henricpetrina" (Basel, from the press of Heinrich Petri). The motto "Dulces Ante Omnia Musae" appears at the top. The paper is aged and toned, with text from the verso showing through.
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2️⃣/4️⃣ 📚 More than 1 million books, 📰 newspapers, 🎼 sheet music, 📜 archival records, and so much more are freely available to anyone, anywhere. 🌎

Cover of Worst Canadian Stories, Vol. 1, collected and edited by Crad Kilodney. The title appears in bold italic type at the top, above a black-and-white engraving depicting a dramatic scene: a masked or dark-faced figure leans over a person lying on a table, while a seated figure in the foreground looks on and a skeleton stands in the shadowy background. Below the illustration, the editor credit and volume number appear in italic and bold type. The cover has a cream background with a double-ruled border.Page 2 of the sheet music for "A Song of Canada" by Percy Semon, showing the opening of the piece for voice and piano. The tempo marking reads "Moderato Alla Marcia," with the piano introduction marked mf and cresc., building through two systems before the voice enters on the third system with the lyrics "A land with glorious sunshine blest, Where / No fear that foe or foreign might, Shall." The copyright line at the bottom reads "Copyright, Canada, MCMIX by Percy Semon / U.S. Copyright, MCMIX by Percy Semon." The paper is aged and lightly toned.Cover of Tarpaper, a Canadian penitentiary newsletter, August 1974. The title is set in decorative Art Nouveau-style lettering in purple-blue, above a risograph-style illustration printed in the same purple-blue on a hot pink background. The illustration shows a person gripping a chain-link fence and looking through it, their face and hands pressed close to the links. A faint institutional library stamp is visible at the right. The overall design has a bold, high-contrast underground press aesthetic.
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🇨🇦 This Canada Day, we're celebrating the remarkable collection built by Internet Archive Canada and its library, archive, and university partners over the past 20 years. Discover how this digital library came together ⤵️ internetarchivecanada.org/2026/07/01/w... 🧵 1️⃣/ 👇

A pen-and-watercolor page from the Katchewanooka Herald presenting a five-panel comic sequence numbered 1–5. Panel 1: a soldier reassures a frightened woman, "Don't be alarmed Mrs. Collins, I will protect you"; panel 2 shows a hedgehog on a plank labeled "The supposed whirlpool"; panel 3 depicts the soldier prodding the hedgehog with a long pole, captioned "Mr. Collins am I done enough?"; panel 4 shows a woman seated on a trunk covering her face, captioned "Oh! Oh! Mr. Collins do not be so rash"; panel 5 shows a figure lying flat on the ground, captioned "At the report of the gun Mrs. Collins has fainted & disappears behind the log." The paper is aged with torn edges.
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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, COMPOSITION OF CIRCLES AND OVERLAPPING ANGLES (1930) 🎨 🖼️ Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s vibrant geometric abstraction uses circles, diagonals, and bold color to create a dynamic balance of rhythm, movement, and precision. See it ➡️ archive.org/details/soph... #PublicDomain

Sophie Taeuber-Arp's 1930 painting Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles.
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Right now, volunteers and experts from every continent are gathering in Alte Hölle to start building both the physical and digital infrastructure of the camp. After seven sunsets, we will be hundreds! @dod.ngo @getdweb.net @Brewster.Kahle.org #DWebCamp #DWeb #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Fediverse

A large group of DWeb Camp attendees seated in a circle on a patterned rug inside a white open-sided tent, engaged in a structured group discussion, with a flipchart easel and sunny outdoor landscape visible behind them.DWeb Camp attendees relaxing and conversing in inflatable lounge chairs among tall redwood trees, with teal paper lanterns strung overhead and a hammock visible in the background.
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One week to DWeb Camp: Root Systems! 🏕️ Last chance to get your ticket & join us, to shape the future of the decentralized internet, together with the most important figures in the sector. 📅 8–12 July 2026 📍 Alte Hölle, ~1h from Berlin, Germany 🎟️ Tickets + info: dwebcamp.org 🧵More ⬇️

Promotional graphic for DWeb Camp announcing "7 Sunsets to DWeb Camp!" with a photo of people dancing outdoors at night among tall redwood trees, wearing glowing LED headphones in green and blue, with warm string lights strung between the trees. Text at the bottom reads "8–14 July 2026, near Berlin, dwebcamp.org."
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🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comA bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyoneThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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A thoughtful exploration of our fraught history. Archival sourcing, intercutting of uplifting & uneasy imagery, and the Hall-Johnson Choir’s spiritual score evoke reflection: “Unease follows.” #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

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CONGRATS AGAIN to "FARINA & THE PERPETUAL SHINE MACHINE" by Ralphie Wilson Third Place winner of the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🥉 Allen “Farina” Hoskins leads an interrogative look at 1930 depictions of Black life. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/publ... 🧵 1/2

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🇺🇸 As America marks its 250th anniversary, the Internet Archive is preserving & providing free access to materials documenting the nation’s founding and 250 years of Independence celebrations. Get an advance look at what’s coming here! ⤵️ 🔗 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t... #AmericanHistory

A collage of seven American historical ephemera arranged in a grid: a 19th-century hand-colored map of the United States spans the full top row; below it sit a two-panel teal illustration from a Bell Telephone booklet titled "50 Years of Progress," a narrow 1975 Amtrak Bicentennial Special brochure, and a video still of a man in Western costume with a cowboy hat and red bandana; the bottom row features the title page of an 1826 oration on American independence, a teal-covered pamphlet from the 1926 National Sesquicentennial Exposition titled "The United States Public Health Service," and the cover of "Valuable Recipes for Cooking Duryeas' Improved Corn Starch" (1876), a trade booklet presented at the Centennial Exposition, featuring an illustration of a classical female figure standing beside a large decorative jug.
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