Search The Public Domain Review

    The Public Domain Review
    The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography

    The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s *Christmas Garland* (1912)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire

    Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

    Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

    Coney Island at Night (1905)
    Film / 
    Architecture, Technology

    Coney Island at Night (1905)

    Modernity in the Rainforest: *Man and his Desire* (1917)
    Books / 
    Music & Arts, Natural World, Travel & Exploration

    Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
    Images / 
    War, Geometry & Diagrams

    Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

    A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

    Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)
    Images / 
    Architecture, Landscapes

    Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
    Images / 
    Politics, War, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)
    Books / 
    Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

    The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture

    The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
    Books / 
    Ghosts & Occult, Strange Phenomena

    In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
    Film / 
    Emotion & Expression, Music & Arts

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
    Books / 
    Stories, Death

    Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: *A Book of Sundial Mottoes* (1903)
    Books / 
    Death, Design & Typography, Wisdom

    “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

    *Shy Guy* (1947)
    Film / 
    Customs & Culture, Wisdom

    Shy Guy (1947)

    Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)
    Images / 
    Architecture, Landscapes

    Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)

    *Atlas of the Munsell Color System* (1915)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine

    Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915)

    Downhill from Here: *The Slant Book* (1910)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire

    Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)

    Many-Colored Misdirection: *Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom* (1909)
    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture, People, Politics

    John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)

    James Ensor, *The Deadly Sins* (ca. 1904)
    Images / 
    Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)