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

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

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

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

Rainbows in Art

The Human Alphabet

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

Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

The Singerie: Monkeys acting as Humans in Art

Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)

The Steps of Life

Hypnotism Posters (ca. 1900)

New Elucidations of Thomson’s Seasons (1822)

Shakespeare in Art

Images from The Champion Text Book on Embalming (1897)

The Sea Monk (ca. 1845)

The Postures of the Mouth (1846)

Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865)

The American Woods

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)

Phenomena Over and Under the Earth (1878)

NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res