Entries tagged #public-domain on Unique.https://unique.rzen.dev/en-ushttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/ansel-adams-national-parks/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/ansel-adams-national-parks/The photographs Ansel Adams made for a 1941 Interior Department mural commission that the war cancelled — 226 of them, in the public domain at the National Archives.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThistoryphotographynational-parkspublic-domainarchivesansel-adamshttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/edward-quin-historical-atlas/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/edward-quin-historical-atlas/Edward Quin's posthumous 1830 atlas draws everything a given age had not yet found as a mass of engraved black cloud that recedes across twenty-one plates — plus a second, flat olive tint that never lifts at all.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorymapscartographyengraving19th-centurypublic-domainaquatinthttps://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-16-collections-of-the-overlooked/https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-16-collections-of-the-overlooked/Four labors of love that catalogued what nobody else kept — roadside Americana, Victorian wildlife plates, Venice's ritual brawls in art, and vintage moist-towelette packaging.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbundlesdaily-findsarchivespublic-domainhttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/john-margolies-americana-archive/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/john-margolies-americana-archive/11,710 free, downloadable color photos from John Margolies' four-decade drive across vanishing American roadside architecture — donut shops, teapot gas stations, leaning towers of pizza — now at the Library of Congress with no known restrictions on use.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThistoryphotographyamericanaarchitecturepublic-domainarchivesroad-triphttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/david-rumsey-map-collection/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/david-rumsey-map-collection/A free, openly browsable archive of more than 149,000 historical maps — part of a 200,000-item collection now donated to Stanford — with an AI-assisted search that reaches past titles and dates into the maps themselves, plus georeferencing tools and orderable prints.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorymapsarchivecartographyhistorypublic-domainhttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/odyssey-1911-film/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/odyssey-1911-film/L'Odissea (1911), Milano Films' ambitious feature-length silent of Homer's epic — Cyclops, sirens and all — restored by the Cineteca di Bologna and free to watch in 44 minutes.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThistoryfilm-historysilent-filmhomerodysseypublic-domain