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Not-for-profit project dedicated to exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas — focusing on works now fallen into the public domain. Smaller posts surface images, books, audio, and film (sourced from places like Internet Archive, Library of Congress, The Met, Rijksmusuem, Wellcome, etc.) — and we've also 300+ long-form essays (✍️ submissions welcome!) Here we'll mostly be tooting about content on our site. 🎺 Website: https://publicdomainreview.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/publicdomainrev/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev Tumblr: https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/
Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal, a Christmas tale about 2 children who get lost in the blinding snow, loved by WG Sebald, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann + WH Auden (who called it a "beautiful parable about the relation of people to places, of man to nature")
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Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)
A Christmas classic about two children who get lost in the blinding snow, by the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, beloved by W. G. Sebald, W. H. A...
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#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal:
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The Snowflake Man of Vermont
Keith C. Heidorn takes a look at the life and work of Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer from a small American town who, by combining a bellows...
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