Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)

The Dances of the Ages (1913)

The Book of the Homeless (1916)

On the Banks of the Old Raritan (1915)

George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)

Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age

Autumn: Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing (1912)

Park Conscious (1938)

Woodrow Wilson On Democratic Principles (1912)

The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913)

Destination Earth (1956)

The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)

Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)

Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)

Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)

The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944)

Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

Scenes from Rip Van Winkle (1903)

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

John McCormack - Recordings: 1911-1940

Maniac Chase (1904)

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble (1921)

Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century

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