January 2010

Public Domain Performing Arts Posters At The Library Of Congress

Library of Congress Performing
Arts Poster Collection
Here’s another great Public Domain resource from the Library of Congress…
This collection features hundreds of truly amazing turn of the century performing arts posters featuring magicians, psychics, plays, comedies, and a wide variety of shows and events available as high-resolution, archival quality downloads.
If you’ve ever wanted to start a business [...]

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Quick Public Domain Products – Creating an Audio CD in 11 Easy Steps…

Creating an Audio CD in 11 Easy Steps…
This week, my friend Erin and I had a brief discussion about how to use Public Domain materials to create audio CD’s…
Erin asked a great question…
I think my local market would be ripe for some Old Time Radio shows and I was wondering … do I simply download the mp3 [...]

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Public Domain Baseball Cards 1887-1914

Library of Congress American Memory Baseball Cards 1887-1914 Collection 

Would you believe that a mint condition version of this Honus Wagner baseball card (produced in 1909 by the American Tobacco Company) sold in 2007 for a record 2.8 million dollars?
Would you believe that just six months before that it was sold for a then record-breaking $2.35 million? Read more [...]

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Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction, But Public Domain Pulp Fiction Is A Whole Lot More Fun!

If you’re in to republishing Public Domain fiction, the “pulp mags” of the 20′s, 30′s, 40′s, and 50′s can provide you with a HUGE untapped treasure chest of fictional short stories to reintroduce to the world.
You could literally create a publishing company solely dedicated to the republishing of pulp magazine short stories and never have [...]

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604,450 Public Domain Volumes ~ So Many Public Domain Books, So Little Time!

There’s An Elephant In The Library! Welcome To HathiTrust… 
What is HathiTrust? (From the site…)
“HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of [...]

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