Images in the Public Domain

Copyright notice:

The U.S. Copyright Office's circular entitled Copyright Basics and particularly the section on How long copyright protection endures, explain why these images came to belong to the public. In a nutshell, works published prior to 1978 were protected for a maximum of 75 years. See "sources", below for more information on these particular images.

Related material:

Lantern slides (under development), B&C Art Gallery

See also Imagery and allied axes: Grazing rights in the public domain, some musical instruments,  and scanning old images. 

The image directories:

Machines	Insects	Plants
Mammals	Mollusks
Reptiles	Agriculture

Also, take a look at

Maxim's flying machine

Sources:

The images in the directories referenced above are from scans by (Jessica Reardon at Williams College and dpd, with some logistic help by Fran Hutchinson) of images from Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Merriam Co. Springfield, MA.  Typically, they were done by engravers whose identity is unknown to me.

  
color and greyscale versions of an engraving (apparently by SFB Morse)
of Noah Webster (from the 1911 Webster's)

 

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