Common Pile v0.1 Filtered Data
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An LLM pre-training dataset produced by filtering and deduplicating the raw text collected in the Common Pile v0.1 • 31 items • Updated • 23
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2024-05-01T21:38:18.287720 | Sasha Archibald and Hunter Dukes | Mar 26, 2024 | hippolyte-hodeau-trench-art | {
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} | public-domain-review | A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
Text by Sasha Archibald and Hunter Dukes
Mar 26, 2024
Thierry Dornberger’s family keepsakes include a memento exceptionally delicate. His great-grandfather, Hippolyte Hodeau, was a World War I private who served in Argonne. As Dornberger relates, Hodeau “made t... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:18.614041 | Miya Tokumitsu | Apr 24, 2024 | maria-catharina-prestel | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maria-catharina-prestel/"
} | public-domain-review | Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
Text by Miya Tokumitsu
Apr 24, 2024
From the Renaissance onward, drawings have fascinated collectors and connoisseurs, who often perceive them as intimate affordances of an artist’s creative process — prized as mediums of an artist’s physical gestures... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:19.113033 | Hunter Dukes | Mar 27, 2024 | passio-verbigenae | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/passio-verbigenae/"
} | public-domain-review | Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Mar 27, 2024
In his final days, Christ is haunted by grotesqueries. Cherubs and putti ogle the last supper’s lamb. Hybrid creatures sprout up in the Garden of Gethsemane. And during his descent into Limbo, demonic bodie... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:19.568427 | Miya Tokumitsu | Mar 14, 2024 | wierix-flemish-proverbs | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wierix-flemish-proverbs/"
} | public-domain-review | Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)
Text by Miya Tokumitsu
Mar 14, 2024
“I wear mourning, seeing the world in which so much deceit abounds.” So laments The Misanthrope as he skulks along, withdrawn emotionally and sartorially, in a deep-hooded cloak. But world-weariness does not amount to wisdom in Jan Wierix’... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:20.059361 | Hunter Dukes | Jan 16, 2024 | dr-berkeleys-discovery | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-berkeleys-discovery/"
} | public-domain-review | The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery (1889)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Jan 16, 2024
In 1888, the year before Dr. Berkeley’s Discovery was published, Jack the Ripper mutilated his second victim, Annie Chapman. Lacking a witness to the murder, the press wondered if an image of the killer might be preserved on h... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:20.245628 | Hunter Dukes | May 1, 2024 | capital-and-labor | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/capital-and-labor/"
} | public-domain-review | Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)
Text by Hunter Dukes
May 1, 2024
Labor is of divine origin, and no man should be ashamed that he is a workman. . . . We are a country of millionaires and beggars, and between these two extremes of society, there is a chasm so wide that no power under our present system of sel... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:20.464109 | Miya Tokumitsu | Jan 30, 2024 | blackwork | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:7",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/blackwork/"
} | public-domain-review | Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints
Text by Miya Tokumitsu
Jan 30, 2024
Early modern prints are recycled waste products of everyday life. Paper was fashioned from soiled and tattered linen, which was boiled and beaten into pulp, then strained and dried in sheets. Ink was an admixture of lampblack or soot blend... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:20.688247 | Hunter Dukes and Adam Green | Apr 30, 2024 | photographs-of-palestinian-life | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-palestinian-life/"
} | public-domain-review | Photographs of Palestinian Life (ca. 1896–1919)
Text by Hunter Dukes and Adam Green
Apr 30, 2024
Girls pose in ornately embroidered tatreez. Women hold cauliflowers stacked four heads high; men carefully consider the heaps at a watermelon market. Commerce thrives: olive oil soap factories pile their bars by the thou... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:21.023237 | Hunter Dukes | Apr 11, 2024 | celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:9",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/"
} | public-domain-review | Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
Text by Hunter Dukes
Apr 11, 2024
The villagers of Strasbourg may have heard about a war in heaven while reading the Book of Revelation; in 1554, they witnessed one with their own eyes. As a broadsheet published in June of that year records, a bloody, fi... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:21.328809 | Kevin Dann | Apr 9, 2024 | weird-islands | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:10",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/weird-islands/"
} | public-domain-review | Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)
Text by Kevin Dann
Apr 9, 2024
One wonders how many children might have tugged at a parent’s coattails to cajole a present of Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands when it was first released in 1921. A glance at any one of its 120 illustrations, all done... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:21.669068 | Paloma Ruiz | Mar 6, 2024 | merian-metamorphosis | {
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"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/merian-metamorphosis/"
} | public-domain-review | Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
Text by Paloma Ruiz
Mar 6, 2024
Pomelos, pomegranates, plantains, and the sociopolitical importance of a seedpod. When Maria Sibylla Merian first set foot in Suriname, her senses were overcome with surprising tastes, sights, and smells. A dissected... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:22.129291 | Hunter Dukes | Feb 15, 2024 | millions-of-cats | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:12",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/millions-of-cats/"
} | public-domain-review | Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Feb 15, 2024
For the feline minded, there is rarely too much of a good thing when it comes to cats; Wanda Hazel Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928) tells a tale that proves the rare exception. Considered the oldest American children’s book sti... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:22.634604 | Hunter Dukes | Feb 6, 2024 | my-lady-nicotine | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:13",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-lady-nicotine/"
} | public-domain-review | Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Feb 6, 2024
Before he conceived of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie decided it was time to grow up and quit smoking. He justifies this decision in My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke (originally published in 1890), which begins with a common trio of... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:23.167613 | Hunter Dukes | Mar 12, 2024 | sutherland-macdonald-tattoos | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:14",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos/"
} | public-domain-review | The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Mar 12, 2024
It’s an era when tattoos are no longer taboo: men and women flock to a London studio to enjoy cooling drinks, a snug stove, and the steady hum of a modern electromagnetic machine, fitted with... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:23.480435 | Hunter Dukes | Apr 2, 2024 | edith-wharton-italian-villas | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:15",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edith-wharton-italian-villas/"
} | public-domain-review | Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Apr 2, 2024
“The traveller returning from Italy, with his eyes and imagination full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows vaguely that the enchantment exists; that he has been under its spell, and that it is more potent, more endurin... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:24.023102 | Erica X Eisen | Feb 21, 2024 | earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:16",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints/"
} | public-domain-review | Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
Text by Erica X Eisen
Feb 21, 2024
Legend has it that when the tremors of the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake had finally subsided, there were so many dead that survivors were forced to carry their loved ones’ bodies away in sacks of coal and sake b... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:24.650973 | Hunter Dukes | Mar 5, 2024 | animated-putty | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:17",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/animated-putty/"
} | public-domain-review | I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Mar 5, 2024
Decades before Gumby rode Pokey and Wallace petted Gromit, tendrils of clay writhed with agency on a dim screen. Ernst Haeckel once fantasized about Urschleim, a kind of primeval sludge from which all biological beings arose; An... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:24.991921 | Sasha Archibald | Feb 13, 2024 | junghuhn-java-album | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:18",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/junghuhn-java-album/"
} | public-domain-review | Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java-Album (1854)
Text by Sasha Archibald
Feb 13, 2024
Java-Album was printed from drawings by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn to accompany a four-volume travelogue about his expeditions in the Dutch East Indies, published in 1854. The images were printed at great trouble — eleven co... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:25.201358 | Hugh Aldersey-Williams | Apr 16, 2024 | occult-chemistry | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:19",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/occult-chemistry/"
} | public-domain-review | Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)
Text by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Apr 16, 2024
“Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the cons... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:25.644927 | Hunter Dukes | Feb 27, 2024 | galateo | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:20",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo/"
} | public-domain-review | The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Feb 27, 2024
In the 1770s, a contagion was sweeping England and women were in danger: the danger of “contracting habits entirely opposite to their natural delicacy”. Take Belinda, for example, w... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:26.159038 | Dorothy Berr | Feb 1, 2024 | gotham-attucks | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:21",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gotham-attucks/"
} | public-domain-review | Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
Text by Dorothy Berry
Feb 1, 2024
We are all unfortunately immersed in the visual legacy of Blackface minstrelsy. Caricatures that mutated Black men into creatures, women into mockeries — offensive ornamentation designed to highlight a lascivious, crim... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:26.636591 | Hunter Dukes | Jan 24, 2024 | steamboat-willie | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:22",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/steamboat-willie/"
} | public-domain-review | As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Jan 24, 2024
When Steamboat Willie premiered in the autumn of 1928, marking Mickey Mouse’s public debut, rivers were on the American mind. Show Boat had hit Broadway the previous Christmas, its racially integrated cast creating ... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:26.991630 | Koto Sadamura | Jan 23, 2024 | kumanaki-kage | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:23",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumanaki-kage/"
} | public-domain-review | Clear Shadows (1867)
Text by Koto Sadamura
Jan 23, 2024
Silhouette portraits came into fashion in late-nineteenth-century Japan following their popularity in Europe and the United States. They were a form of party entertainment. Partygoers would take turns sitting behind a paper sliding door (shōji) while an enterta... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:27.441030 | Hunter Dukes | Mar 20, 2024 | tom-seidmann-freud-hare-tales | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:24",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tom-seidmann-freud-hare-tales/"
} | public-domain-review | Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Mar 20, 2024
“Quite often in dreams it is the hare that shoots the sportsman.”—Sigmund Freud, “The Dream-Work”
Hares and rabbits have been known to serve as messengers between the conscious world and those deeper warrens of the mind. In Tom Seidma... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:28.874195 | Hunter Dukes | Jun 14, 2023 | body-as-house-diagram | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:25",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/body-as-house-diagram/"
} | public-domain-review | My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Jun 14, 2023
This woodcut diagram, from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708), places the human body and house into analogy. Every organ in the man’s open torso is lettered; each letter matches wi... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:29.342732 | Hunter Dukes | Jun 20, 2023 | comic-natural-history | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:26",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comic-natural-history/"
} | public-domain-review | The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Jun 20, 2023
“Transmigration is held to be very marvelous”, reports H. L. Stephens in The Comic Natural History of the Human Race. And while these “kaleideiscopical” experiences are often attributed to “Hindoos, and other far-off outsiders”, he ... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:29.791379 | Hugh Aldersey-Williams | Jul 20, 2023 | raman-sea | {
"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:27",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/raman-sea/"
} | public-domain-review | A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself:
C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)
Text by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Jul 20, 2023
In September 1921, a largely unknown Indian scientist was returning from his first trip overseas where he had attended an international universities congress in Oxford. He had ample tim... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:30.274410 | Sasha Archibald | Jun 6, 2023 | an-adventure | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:28",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-adventure/"
} | public-domain-review | In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
Text by Sasha Archibald
Jun 6, 2023
In 1901, two British women just getting to know each other took a trip to Paris. The day they visited Versailles, things turned strange. They were wandering in the gardens, hoping to find Petit Trianon,... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:30.724807 | Sasha Archibald | Mar 30, 2023 | fraktur-folk-art | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:29",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fraktur-folk-art/"
} | public-domain-review | Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)
Text by Sasha Archibald
Mar 30, 2023
The southeastern corner of what is now Pennsylvania was once home to entire towns of religious dissidents. All had been persecuted in Europe, and sought freedom in the colonies. There were clusters of Mennonites, Moravians, Lutherans, and various ... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:31.231583 | Koto Sadamura | Jul 19, 2023 | hokusai-warriors | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:30",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-warriors/"
} | public-domain-review | Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)
Text by Koto Sadamura
Jul 19, 2023
Until the age of seventy, nothing I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects and fish. —Katsushika H... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:31.768618 | Hunter Dukes | May 30, 2023 | denishawn-dance-film | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:31",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/denishawn-dance-film/"
} | public-domain-review | Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
Text by Hunter Dukes
May 30, 2023
“In a word, we dreamed about a school of life”, wrote Ruth St. Denis about founding, with her husband Ted Shawn, the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. Filmed across two or three summers between 1915 and 1917, according to the New York Publ... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:32.289230 | Hunter Dukes | Apr 27, 2023 | punctuation-personified | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:32",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/punctuation-personified/"
} | public-domain-review | Punctuation Personified (1824)
Text by Hunter Dukes
Apr 27, 2023
Ev’ry lady in this landHas twenty nails upon each handFive & twenty on hands & feetAnd this is true without deceit.But when the stops were plac’d aright,The real sense was brought to light.
The child protagonist of Punctuation Personified: or, Pointing... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:32.784196 | Sasha Archibald | May 23, 2023 | san-francisco-calamity | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:33",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/san-francisco-calamity/"
} | public-domain-review | Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Text by Sasha Archibald
May 23, 2023
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire (1906) was known in the publishing industry as an “instant disaster book”. This genre coalesced partly because there were so many disasters at the turn of the last century: ... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:33.110256 | Erica X Eisen | May 11, 2023 | los-angeles-alligator-farm | {
"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:34",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/los-angeles-alligator-farm/"
} | public-domain-review | Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
Text by Erica X Eisen
May 11, 2023
From 1907 until its relocation in 1953, the area of Lincoln Heights was home to what the Los Angeles Times dubbed “the city’s most exotic residents”: a thousand-strong collection of alligators that welcomed visitors every day... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:33.629457 | Sasha Archibald | Apr 25, 2023 | sundial-mottoes | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:35",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sundial-mottoes/"
} | public-domain-review | “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)
Text by Sasha Archibald
Apr 25, 2023
When thought needs a muse, it claims an evocative object. Long ago, love found hearts; secrets found keys; discovery found light; change found rivers. For many centuries this list would have had to include time finding su... | collection |
2024-05-01T21:38:33.977832 | Erica X Eisen | Jul 12, 2023 | smillie-smithsonian | {
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"provenance": "public-domain-review-0000.json.gz:36",
"url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/smillie-smithsonian/"
} | public-domain-review | The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
Text by Erica X Eisen
Jul 12, 2023
When Thomas William Smillie (1843–1917) was designated “custodian” of the Smithsonian Institution’s photographic “specimens” in 1896 — a position we might now call curator of photogra... | collection |
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Public Domain Review
Description
The Public Domain Review is an online journal dedicated to exploration of works of art and literature that have aged into the public domain. We collect all articles published in the Public Domain Review under a CC BY-SA license.
Dataset Statistics
| Documents | UTF-8 GB |
|---|---|
| 1,406 | 0.007 |
License Issues
While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.
Other Versions
This is the "filtered" version of the Public Domain Review dataset. If you are looking for the raw version, you can find it here.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
@article{kandpal2025common,
title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben and Elie Bakouch and John David and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2025}
}
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