After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the Public Domain Review’s inception, we’ve decided it was time to create one of our own! We are really excited to share with you the launch of our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse.

We intend the archive to be a place of discovery, and to this end have developed various “views” to aid exploration:

  • catalogue view, to search and browse by theme, style, date, and more;
  • infinite view, for a more immersive experience of the collection;
  • shuffle view, a tool to easily summon images in a serendipitous manner.