Illustration Friday ~ Salvaging Beautiful Images from a Dilapidated Public Domain Book
October 30, 2009
This week I looked over in my bookcase and saw a deteriorating vintage book. I knew the book would not last long. It is hard to hold all the pages in place, so this week I’m going to publish some copyright free images without the page numbers. All the illustrations are in color. They are large, so I’m only uploading 4 freebie images this week.
The public domain book is Webster’s New Illustrated Dictionary Based on Noah Webster’s dictionary, revised and edited by Edward T. Roe and Charles Leonard-Stuart. The book was published by Syndicate Publishing Company of New York in 1911.
The top image is titled Badges and Decorations of Honor, Plate I. The illustration has a copyright date of 1910 by F.E. Wright.
The image above is another illustration with a copyright of 1910 by F.E. Wright. The birds are “1. Blue and Red Macaw; 2. Incomparable Bird of Paradise; 3. Golden Bird of Paradise; 4. Resplendent Trogon; 5. King Bird of Paradise; 6. Fire Weaver; 7. Paradise Flycatcher; 8. Broad-Shafted Whidah-Bird; 9. Marsh Hawk; 10. Bald Eagle; 11. Barred Owl; 12. Golden Pheasant.”
The image above is another color bird illustration. This time it’s chickens. The title is Types of Leading Breeds of American Pure Bred Fowl. The image has a copyright of 1910 by F.E. Wright.
The last illustration also has a copyright of 1910 by F.E. Wright. The title is Ceramic and Decorative Art.
The illustrations are from a pre-1923 copyright book. The images should be copyright-free. All the images have been uploaded to my flickr page. They have been attributed to Creative Commons. They are a freebie. If you click on the image, you will be taken to the image on my flickr page where you can chose the size of image to download for free.
