A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

Francesco Tamagno sings Verdi’s Otello, Death Scene (1903)

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

Despotism (1946)

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

The Pioneer ov Simplified Speling, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1912)

Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection

The Confidence-Man (1857)

The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913)

Class of 2017

The Frog (1908)

Airopaidia (1786) — the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion

Chirologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand (1644)

Within Our Gates (1920)

Walter Crane’s Painting Book (1889)

Rainbows in Art

The Human Alphabet

The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904)

Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)

Painted Photograph of an Unknown Man (ca. 1855–70)

The Splash of a Drop (1895)