@kevinrns Kevin, they are both. Stereographs are composed of two photographs side by side. It's not a one or the other situation and I think one should be able to refer to stereographs (made with photographs) as photographs without being "corrected".
Born #onthisday in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Read an account of him at just 8 years old. As well as dazzling the narrator with his musical genius Mozart “would also sometimes run about the room with a stick between his legs by way of horse” — https://buff.ly/37uRoJ7#OTD
Paradiso, Canto XIV. Dante and Beatrice move into the fifth heaven — an illustration from 1880 by Gustave Doré, who died three years later #onthisday in 1883.
A few of the 80+ illustrations by Pauline Knip for Les Pigeons (1810), a publication mired in controversy. See our latest post for more of the stunning images, and a story of plagiarism, power, pretence and... pigeons: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/les-pigeons
First pages of a beautiful art nouveau edition of an essay on gardens by the Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon, who was born #onthisday in 1561. Read the whole thing here: https://buff.ly/30KLqBx#otd
Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote was first published #onthisday in 1605. It would become one of the best-loved and most frequently illustrated books in the history of literature. Read more in Rachel Schmidt's essay "Picturing Don Quixote" — https://buff.ly/2DE095F#OTD
Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society/
We are very excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse.
Our aim is to offer a platform that will serve both as a practical resource and a place to simply wander — an ever-growing portal to discover more than 2000 years of visual culture.
Images from Owen Simmons' The Book of Bread (1903), a reference manual for commercial bakeries which includes striking pasted-in silver bromide prints and dazzling chromolithographs of bread. Read the book, and see more of its images, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-bread
As many embark boldly (and perhaps temporarily) on brand new gym memberships, here's a look at where it all started: the workout machines of the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym
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