Atoll. Line drawing by Pearson Scott Foresman, released by him into the public domain via Wikipedia Commons.

Here I am continuing with the images by Pearson Scott Foresman. He has literally uploaded thousands (3000+) of images to Wikipedia and released them into the Public Domain. That 3000+, by the way, is just for the category of the Public Domain ones. It doesn’t include any other categories. Wow!

Anyway, lately I’ve been wanting to escape and dreaming of swimming in a warm ocean (something you aren’t likely to get in Ohio) and sleeping on a sandy beach. So today’s image is of an South Seas atoll. Ah, dream on, dream on.

Peace,

Bekka

Accordian. Line drawing by Pearson Scott Foresman, released into the public domain via Wiki Commons.

As promised, I’m featuring a few of Pearson Scott Foresman’s public domain line drawings. Foresman has uploaded dozens of drawings to Wikipedia Commons and marked them as ‘Public Domain’, so much so that he has several categories all to himself – including one of his PD art!

I’m going to be featuring a few of my favorites by him that I have saved in my graphics collection, but you are welcome to go and search through them for yourself! Obviously, I don’t have the time or space to feature them all.

Thank you Mr. Foresman!

Peace,

Bekka

Alpaca. Public domain line drawing by Pearson Scott Foresman. From Wikipedia Commons.

Remember a couple of posts back, when I had all the panda pictures? And I mentioned the last one was a line drawing by Pearson Scott Foresman?

Well, for whatever reason, Foresman has made literally hundreds of line drawings for Wikipedia Commons and released all of them into the public domain.

So for the next few days, I’m going to feature a few of these wonderful drawings.

Today’s choice was an alpaca. I don’t know why, but I just like alpacas and llamas. So I thought I would share a picture of one with you today.

Click on the image to see it / download it full-sized.

Peace,

Bekka

Yes, I am remiss. It has been 4 days without a post and 5 without a ‘Daily Public Domain’ image.Since Monday, 17 May (2 days ago), was son Ben’s 9th birthday; and because Ben adores pandas (well, he likes bears especially, but really likes pandas and polar bears), I am going to give you more than one image of pandas today – to try and make up for missing the last couple of days.According to the Wikipedia Commons information for this first picture, it was illustrated by Wilhelm Kuhnert Brehms, from a publication given as Tierleben, Small Edition. I am not sure what that was, but the date given for the image is 1927.

The next image is a Soviet era Russian stamp, honoring the Moscow Zoo. It shows a giant panda, and was printed in 1964. Because stamps are government property and the stamp is no longer valid postage, under Russian law the image is public domain (because the image was made for the government). I think he’s adorable, myself. I also love the fact that the stamp that was scanned for this image was used and has a bit of the cancellation stamp showing in the bottom right corner. This is also from Wikipedia Commons (one of my favorite places to browse for public domain images).

Next is cuddly looking panda on a 1938 poster for the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. It was created by Frank W. Long for the Federal Art Project; and thus, like Rosie the Riveter and dozens of other posters created under various government programs during the Depression and World War II, it is public domain. It is also extremely cute!  This little fellow is from the Library of Congress Digital Collections.

 

Finally we have a line drawing by Pearson Scott Foresman, who has made dozens of black and white line drawings for Wikipedia Commons and released most of them, including this one, into the public domain. It’s a wonderful graphic of a panda so I had to include it.

As always, click an image to see it/ download it full-sized.

Peace, and Happy Belated Birthday Ben!

(Yes, we had presents and cake on his birthday – they weren’t late!)

Bekka