It’s the holiday season. Santa Claus is an icon of that history, but he wasn’t always reaching for a soda. 🎅 Covers, ads, and illustrations like these are part of our shared cultural heritage, and their preservation lets us experience not only Christmases past but also the media that shaped them. Unwrap more vintage Holiday magazine art & more in our collection ⤵️ #HolidayArt #PeriodicalArt #Archives #CulturalMemory #ChristmasHistory
🎬 Enter the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest! Remix & reimagine treasures from 1930—early sound films, cartoons, music, literature & art—and turn them into unique 2–3 minute films. Use the Internet Archive’s collections & your creativity to breathe new life into these cultural gems. 📅 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details: #contest #film #publicdomain image
🎂 E. H. Shepard was born on this day in 1879. A titan among British illustrators, he’s best remembered for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. 🧸 The ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️ Check out more of Shepard's illustrations and the stories in each of the 1926 & 1928 books. Both are in the public domain & in our collections. 🧸🎈🐝 👉 🧸🐯🍯 👉