Hidden Public Domain Treasures

50 Public Domain Children’s Books Courtesy Of The Library of Congress

Library of Congress Rare Books & Special Collections – Children’s Literature
In this collection you’ll find beautiful full scans of some of most delightful children’s book of the past century. Here’s a few samples from the collection…
The Circus Procession. N.Y. [i.e. New York]: McLoughlin Bro’s., c1888.

The Twelve Magic Changelings / By M.A. Glen. New York: Frederick [...]

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Social Security Administration Special Collections Public Domain

Sometimes you can find great public domain stuff in the most unlikely of places.
I was researching some things recently when I tripped over the Social Security Administration’s Special Collections – Public Information Materials Page at the link below…
http://www.ssa.gov/history/pubaffairs.html
“This section contains images of posters, pamphlets, and other materials that SSA has made available over the [...]

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What’s Up With That USDA Website

I just read another comment on “Twitter” about how silly it is to use Public Domain information for product development or website articles.
I’ll just keep being “silly” then… cuz I’m taking “silly” to the bank. Ha!
One of the main complaints most of the uninformed make is, “That old stuff isn’t useful to anyone”. So I [...]

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U.S. Military History Is Public Domain Content

I was given a challenge (in a comment by a public domain treasure hunter subscriber) to think of a way to combine my travels in Italy and my knowledge of public domain.
After giving this challenge some thought – and realizing that I was here in Italy visiting my Navy son during Memorial Day weekend… I [...]

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Images In Public Domain From Australia

Heads up for those of you in Australia… (and all the rest of us)
The State Library of Queensland is the central public library of the state of Queensland in Australia.
They have donated 50,000 public domain images, with metadata, to Wikimedia Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland
Loads of images are listed here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_State_Library_of_Queensland

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Public Domain Content For My OZ Friends

This one is for all of you who live in Australia… Public Domain Content!!!
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html

Have Fun!

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145 Years Later, The American Civil War Is Still BIG Business On eBay…

I love eBay!
I opened my very first eBay account in 2001 and I’ve always been very pleased with the results I’ve gotten by leveraging the auction giant in my business. Despite the many changes in policy (some good, some bad) and fee structures over the years, I still believe that eBay is one of the [...]

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Are You Distracted? Sometimes It Is Worth It

There are days I get distracted. You all know that I’m the Queen of Focus… but I do have days that are just not going to be a “FOCUSED” day.
I give in and let the “links” take me on a journey. This is a story of how I spent an entire day last year.
I opened [...]

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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Digital Collections

This Public Domain MEGA-Hidden Treasure is brought to you by our friend J. Arthur Davis of ArtReproServices.com.
This is one awesome collection of Canadian History (not to mention a rich source of Public Domain stuff)!
The portal site can be found here but you can find more info concerning the individual collections here…