It was the midwinter of 1926, in Rochester, New York, when James Sibley Watson, Jr. and his friend Melville Webber first started filming their adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1839…

Fifteen years ago, The Public Domain Review began its life as an online journal, a creature of the internet — and proudly so. This relatively new medium, with its capacity…

At 10:15, having administered 0.46 ml and 1.39 ml, respectively, of the cannabis and ergot tinctures, his come up begins: he notes the experience of “momentary dizziness” and “peculiar lightness”,…

Lantern slide of man battling bug. Source link

One of the most well-known mail-order occult societies of the time, and one which is still in existence today, was the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), founded in 1915…

In 1911, the image of enslaved laborers raising monumental pyramids for their ruling pharaohs was repurposed to visualize the stratification of the capitalist system. Published in Industrial Worker — a…

This is the power of the “powder of sympathy”, which Digby supposedly had learned about from a Carmelite in Florence who had traveled extensively through present-day China, India, and Iran….

A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture. Source link

The rise of competitive typesetting amid a period of intensifying labor conflict pointed to an uncomfortable truth facing the world’s printshops: while the rest of the printing process had become…