NEW ESSAY — “The Color of Memory”, in which Grace Linden explores Albert Kahn’s spellbinding Archives de la Planète (1908 to 1931), a collection of more than 72,000 autochromes aimed at documenting and preserving the fast-changing world —

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The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet

By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more than 72,000 autochrome photogra...

Clarence Leroy Andrews, “The Father of the Glaciers”, 1902. One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post:

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“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)

More than forty images of the ephemeral snowman, frozen eternally in the photograph.

#Onthisday in 1894, at the age of 44, the author Robert Louis Stevenson died. Ten years later a collection of excerpts from his writings was published titled The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson. Read it here:

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The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson (1904)

A book of posthumously collected extracts from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, mo...

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What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights!

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What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2025 here.

(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)

To all those celebrating today, a very happy #Thanksgiving! If you are in need of some last minute improvised table decorations this could be of use... The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling, from 1910: https://buff.ly/3dNcOVI