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The Zoophyte of Tartary – The Public Domain Review
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the vegetable lamb jumped from the pages of natural history descriptions to baroque curio…
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Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century) – The Public Domain Review
Despite his range of subjects, it was the flowers that were perhaps closest to Taylor’s heart. Photographing flowers embedded in…
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*The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer* (1877) – The Public Domain Review
The Seer’s last prophecy is his most famous. Well known in the Scottish Highlands, he was summoned by Lady Seaforth,…
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Kenelm Digby’s *Sympathetic Powder* (edition 1669) — The Public Domain Review
This is the power of the “powder of sympathy,” which Digby supposedly heard about from a Carmelite in Florence who…
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Typesetting before the age of the linotype – The Public Domain Review
The rise of competitive typesetting amid a period of increasing labor conflict pointed to an uncomfortable truth confronting the world’s…
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Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911) – The Public Domain Review
In 1911, the image of enslaved workers building monumental pyramids for their ruling pharaohs was again used to visualize the…
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How Mail Order Brought the Occult – The Public Domain Review
One of the best-known mail-order occult societies of the time, and one that still exists, was the Ancient Mystical Order…
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*The Fall of the House of Usher* (1928) – The Public Domain Review
It was the middle of the winter of 1926, in Rochester, New York, when James Sibley Watson Jr. and his…
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A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project — The Public Domain Review
I can imagine someone walking away thinking about all kinds of things: What have I learned about history by sifting…
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Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th Century Britain – The Public Domain Review
It is clear from the surviving testimonies of resurrection people that pauper cemeteries, without guards or mortuaries, were favorite hunting…
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