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The Author Depositing His Voice at the Patent-Office, to Prevent Counterfeiting (1894) by Albert Robida, from “The End of Books”, Scribner's Magazine.
Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0d1e7147-b66e-451d-9a2f-6fc28a93ae04
#patents #technology #recording #communication #offices #inventions #retrofuturism #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Raffaele Mainella, from Nos Invisibles (1907).
Source: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Livres / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cd431f6d-dc55-484a-8f31-39a9cd847581
#spiritualism #spirituality #life-after-death #mediumship #art #publicdomain
Studiolo Gubbio (ca. 1478–82) by Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/764983e1-7036-4b82-9ac9-d2b3ece01d1b
#wood #painting #woodwork #books #marquetry #intarsia #craftmanship #cabinets #instruments #art #publicdomain
“Calavera Oaxaqueña” (ca. 1910) by José Guadalupe Posada.
Source: Library of Congress
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6da09ad4-4688-4367-8e24-bac52d7d6de9
#calaveras #cartoons #sombreros #mexico #dancing #skeletons #skulls #art #publicdomain
Italian woman (ca. 1905) by Augustus Sherman.
Source: New York Public Library / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/61eb4fb1-345a-4b3c-90ce-c1ccc81e5ffe
#earrings #europe #lace #portraits #headscarves #immigration #art #publicdomain
Phenakistoscope (1833).
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/66b57c7a-371f-4773-8524-a25f5f6b96a9
#monkeys #technology #zebras #phenakistoscopes #movement #balls #art #publicdomain
A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).
Source: Städel Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07cb3f2f-5551-4116-b239-571ad124560d
#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain
Gundelia (G. Tournefortii L.) (ca. 1900–20) by American Colony, from Wild Flowers of Palestine.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/881c26b0-a111-4c0c-9f4c-078437ce0c0a
#plant-photography #wildflowers #herbs #israel #botany #natural-history #floral #jerusalem #christianity #flowers #palestine #plants #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a9215283-c8af-4df1-8ce6-67489073f37a
Histioteuthis bonelliana (1851) by Jean Baptiste Vérany, from Mollusques méditeranéens.
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60dc0b5e-2980-4d86-a26c-59e05cffb0c7
#cephalopods #zoology #chromolithography #squid #art #publicdomain
