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Large Archive of Vintage Prints

vintage printable
I’m  not going to waste your time with sites claiming to contains public domain prints but only display low resolution images. Vintage Printable is a website that has an awesome collection of medieval prints with printable resolution. The site also contains a lot of prints from different time periods images that can be search easily since most of them are properly categorized. The site sometime crawl probably from the number or users but for the most part getting gorgeous prints from Vintage Printable is painless.

link: Vintage Printable

Public Domain Clip Art

Public Domain Clipart
Here’s a nice website that claims to have 25,000 free clip art you can use for your projects. What great about Public Domain Clipart is its direct and easy navigation. You wont find anything fancy but its a great site to have when you need something in a hurry. I love the huge collection

Link: PD Clip Art

Civil War Public Domain Pictures

American Civil War Pictures National Archives

The National Archives did some site renovation and has made it easier for researchers to get all kinds of media from the American Civil War. There’s a great deal of content you can use to show life during this time period. My favorite are the pictures showing civilian activities such as sports and construction.
Link: National Archives: Civil War

Brazilian Postcards

I recently saw this site Old Postcards from Brazil which has a huge gallery of rare postcards from Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Looking through postcards is a great way to see how like was during that era and also a great way to see how scenery changes through time.

Link: Old Postcards from Brazil

Old Public Domain Illustrations

Old Book Illustrations

old books illustrations

I’m always looking for some illustrations for my scrapbooking projects. Here is a website that has a great collection of old scan illustrations from public domain books. It also has a great section dedicated to textures and scrapbook making.

Old Book Illustrations: Link

Public Domain Images and Videos from NOAA

NOAA Public Domain Media

Like any government website its filled with tons of information but is just really hard to find. NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ) is no exception, it contains tons of media you can use for your articles. NOAA has the lastest oil spill data, animation, videos and even high resolution image . Finding it in their website is another story. Here are some simple search terms you can use in Google to find the media your looking for in the NOAA website.

NOAA Image Gallery: Link
NOAA Videos: Link
NOAA Animation: Link

Public Domain Pictures of the Great Depression

great depression 1930 america
Today a lot of people consider themselves poor, here are some pictures from the 1930′s to remind us what it ment to be poor during the great depression. I’ve gathered 10 pictures from the National Archives you can download and share.

download: pictures of the great depression

Public Domain Audio Books from LibriVox


Librivox offers free audiobook versions of books available in the public domain. The readers can’t be compared to Audible readers but you can’t complain about the price. Opening their library index you can see an impressive 1991 audiobooks available for download. Audiobook formats are in mp3 (64 kbs and 128 kbs) and ogg audio files.

link: Librivox

Public Domain Sheet Music

We’re getting a lot request for some sheet music. Just in case you’re wondering what are sheet music, Wikipedia define them as a written or printed form of musical notation; like its analogs — books, pamphlets, etc.

MusOpen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.

Link : MusOpen

Mutopia

It offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. Also host a growing number of modern editions, arrangements and new music.

Link: The Mutopia Project

A Free Book on Public Domain

I love the fact the author James Boyle decided to give away his his book online. If you believe in the idea of free information that you should practice it. He certainly lives up to his reputation.

The book it selves gives you a better understanding on the war of information and the hypocrisy of copyright laws. Its a good read, and worth having in your PC, Iphone, Sony Reader or whatever you use to read PDF Books.

download link: The Public Domain