Public Domain Image Archive

Illustration by Augustus Jansson, from The Inland Printer (1903–1907).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07549118-a593-4e0e-8aa1-6a9ae1e626f3

#parades #advertisements #advertising #golf #color #adverts #ink #hats #art #publicdomain

Saint Matthew (7th century) (1868) by John O. Westwood, from Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-saxon & Irish Manuscripts.

Source: Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6005e9fc-4a72-47b9-ab8d-b43f73f57cbc

#halos

The Engagement Voyage (1890) by Albert Robida, from La vie électrique.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/37954add-0174-4bb9-9041-18358403177c

#airships #clouds #future #flight #cities #castles #retrofuturism #art #publicdomain

From Kunstrichtige Schreibart (1655).

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3254aeee-7443-4496-a42c-2c1d5914e8b2

#type #alphabets #decorative #letters #calligraphy #typography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain

John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–60.

Source: Harry Ransom Center

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3d7b32b6-249a-4fbb-84a3-aacc3a83781b

#collage #religion #buildings #blood #landscapes #christianity #art #publicdomain

A toroidal colony's interior with a cutaway view (1970s) by Rick Guidice.

Source: NASA

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0d211438-9c25-40cb-80eb-bc803adde947

#technology #utopias #architecture #art #publicdomain

The Scot (1562) by François Desprez, from Collection of Various Clothing Styles.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/dc9e076d-9f92-4c32-ab25-94112205327a

#scotland #travelogues #fashion #art #publicdomain

The Betrayal (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/87f49206-76bb-45cc-892e-d038459de38d

#manuscripts #drama #christianity #architecture #bible #art #publicdomain

The Sign of the “Mischeif” (null).

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2e5d5bcb-06d6-4302-9d0a-31ddde883936

#candles #buildings #carrying #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Edouard Joseph d’Alton, from Die vergleichende Osteologie (1821–38).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d658a1d8-0149-4bd0-8c13-29107f152eff

#anatomy #animals #zoology #bones #ostriches #birds #skeletons

Piece of sponge (1764–8) by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller, from Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/02d31ba1-1653-4915-a7d9-f84021d91e4b

#micrography #insects #microscopes

The voyagers examined the web of cloth (1921) by Virginia Frances Sterrett, from Tanglewood Tales.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/20db3331-b796-4a1a-8121-8784920a8859

#pillars #mythology #art #publicdomain

Design No. 65 (1890), from Descriptive illustrated catalogue of the sixty-eight competitive designs for the great tower for London compiled and edited by Fred. C. Lynde for the Tower Company.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0890d587-61a7-4e9f-a

From Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419 (15th century).

Source: Penn Libraries

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9b77752c-45fe-4b69-ba6d-44a02f324c2c

#herbals #flora #leaves #plants #art #publicdomain

Wrestlers (Late 19th century) by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/872aae74-8e49-463d-805e-d12989c2c416

#asia #japan #wrestling #sumo #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Romeyn de Hooghe, from The Works of Mars (1671).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/dc3defd3-e3ac-47e0-93dc-d9e29736ce34

#mathematics #fortifications #diagrams #warfare #military #construction #geometry #architecture

Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/727b2b83-b1f1-4d50-aafc-620fa1db6928

#lobsters #art-nouveau #beasts #sea-life #modernism #ornament

Game of Goose (ca. 1900) by José Guadalupe Posada.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8df1ad55-c8e0-433c-ba0b-1b94cd7f1623

#animals #numbers #circular #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Edouard Joseph d’Alton, from Die vergleichende Osteologie (1821–38).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ad18b93a-6857-4b6a-94f6-e54d8b02e431

#anatomy #animals #zoology #bones #rabbits #hares #skeletons

Illustration from the first volume of Robert Fludd's <i>Utriusque Cosmi <span class="special__no-break">. . .</span> Historia</i>, 1617. (1617) by Robert Fludd, from Utriusque Cosmi <span class="special__no-break">. . .</span> Historia
.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

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Measuring the Tiger (1902), from How I killed the tiger being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5f79b9c1-c53c-429e-93

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/20b17007-bd44-4049-afda-31dbda396449

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #art #publicdomain

Villa Chigi (1904) by Maxwell Armfield, from Italian Villas and their Gardens.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/27094324-7b18-46d5-b75b-19dd297e1c8a

#grottoes #fountains #gardens #trees #landscapes #italy #architecture

Antenna of Cockchafer (1909) by Arthur E Smith, from Nature Through Microscope and Camera.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bfd64762-1c81-404d-a62a-a9a7e1c25a3c

#micrography #microscopes #entomology #magnification #photo-micrography

The Stork’s Visit (1906).

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7fe4c595-236c-4dcd-9086-1eb68d7c457a

#tables #family #colonialism #art #publicdomain

The Apparition (1897), from Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4fca2546-038b-49a5-9b40-913a90e1fa32

#supernatural #illusion #candles #magicians #chess #apparitions

Illustration by Charles Mavelot, from Nouveau livre de differens cartouches, couronnes, casques, supports et tenans (1695).

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f0c9ae60-61d1-40fc-9a4e-1bde080390b6

#decorative #birds #foliage #crowns #heraldry

The Solar Spectrum Analyzed and Systematized (1878), from The Principles of Light and Color
.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b631c5b4-805d-424c-959a-51fa314d0485

#spectrum #ether #color #light #psychic-phenomena

Illustration by Pierre d'Hancarville, from Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis (ca. 1771).

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/772173ef-5563-4454-82ea-51c63ccf785b

#sex #pornography #sexology #cameos #antiquity #art #publicdomain

Diorama of Government Square in Paramaribo (1812) by Gerrit Schouten.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d0d0288f-ce97-407b-9451-66a0848ffce4

#models #towns #clouds #indigenous #streets #buildings #dutch #dioramas #landscape