Hidden Public Domain Treasures

Public Domain Content Makes Great Products For Aspiring Artists

Ever wonder how artists create those outrageous cartoon caricatures?
The Art of Caricaturing by Mitchell Smith, published in 1941, is available in the Public Domain in the U.S. and all countries following the rule of the shorter term because the copyright holder (FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO.) failed to renew the copyright protection for the book in the 28th year [...]

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A Hidden Treasure Trove Of Public Domain Japanese Woodblock Prints And Drawings

How would you like private access to a secret vault filled with more than 2500 stunningly beautiful Japanese paintings and drawings that you can do anything you want with including using them to create framed art, posters, clothing, and more?
You’ll find exactly that in the Library of Congress special collection that I’m about to share [...]

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Japanese Fairy Tales In The Public Domain

I was on one of my daily adventures in archive.org land the other day when I ran across the “Japanese Fairy Tales Series” published circa 1885.
Essentially the “series” consists of twenty traditional Japanese Fairy Tales retold in English and elaborately adorned with colorful illustrations. Each book in the series is roughly 20 -26 pages long.
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Cater To Collectors Of Anything With Expertly Written Public Domain Content

Do you collect anything?
Are you extremely passionate about whatever it is that you collect?
If so, you’re certainly not alone!
People all over the world collect all kind of things ~ comic books, sports memorabilia, postage stamps, artwork, ceramics, figurines, shot glasses, movie posters ~ you name it, somebody somewhere collects it!
And…usually not just one person, but large [...]

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Death Ship Titanic ~ The Story of the Public Domain’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster

Even though it’s been almost 100 years since the doomed ocean-liner sank beneath the waves to it’s watery demise, the story of the Titanic and it’s ill-fated maiden voyage still holds a special place in the public eye…  
 It seems people just can’t get enough of this story and understandably so ~ the story of the [...]

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Old Book Art – Thousands of Free Pictures, Drawings, Maps, and Images

Here’s a fun site where you’ll find thousands of book plates and other images scanned from Public Domain books. The scans are mostly captured from books that pass through the collection of online book dealer, ZephyrusBooks.com which specializes in used, out-of-print, antiquarian and collectible books (highly recommended by the way).
From the site:
“On this site are scanned [...]

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Help Your Readers Go On Some Old-Time Public Domain Reality Adventures

Adventurers and explorers have a way of capturing our imagination.
The life or death situations they narrowly escape from, the risks they take, and the stories and images they come back with all spark excitement inside of us.
The stories of explorers and their expeditions enable us to experience their adventures without having to strap on a [...]

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Have Mustache, Will Travel – The Public Domain Travels Of John L. Stoddard

John Stoddard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1871 he graduated from Williams College, then on to two years of theology at Yale Divinity School. After that he taught Latin and French at Boston Latin School.
He began traveling around the world in 1874, and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his [...]

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Profit Frog – Hundreds of Public Domain “Profitable Hobbies” Magazine Articles & More

Here’s an odd yet very interesting and potentially profitable site – ProfitFrog.com.
One of the things that attracted me to this site is the fact that it hosts reprints of exactly 350 articles from the Public Domain magazine “Profitable Hobbies”…
From the site:
“From 1945 through 1956 Profitable Hobbies magazine published hundreds of ways that men and women made money [...]

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