Chesley Bonestell's Lost Industrial Lithographs #27 of 32

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There's only a week more to go and every one of the Bonestell lithographs will be online. When that happens, Marianne and I will create a BitTorrent and you'll be able to download all the images at high resolution.

Then, because the images were made over a century ago and were commissioned by the United States government, which placed them immediately in the public domain... You can use them for any purpose you wish. Post them on your blog, use them for book covers, put your favorites on t-shirts and sell them on Ebay. It's all legal and ethical.

I'll give you the link when it's up.

 And for those who came in late . . .

In 1918, Chesley Bonestell was commissioned to create a series of lithographs chronicling the construction of the government cyanamide nitrates plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It would be many years before he began painting the astronomicals that made him famous, but he already had tremendous technique.

The lithographs disappeared from public view not long thereafter.

Recently, my wife, Marianne Porter, and I bought what we think is a complete set of 32 at an auction. We had electronic files made of them, which we'll be posting here, one every weekday until they're all online. Then we'll make a torrent containing the complete collection in high density form, for whomever wants them.

All the images are in public domain. You don't have to ask anybody for permission to download them and you may employ them however you wish.

 

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