Annual Vote for Public Domain Digitization: 2025

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Cover: Valdespino, Mary, “I don’t want to fly : (away from Tampa Bay)” (1928). Sheet music collection. 23 digitized for 2024.

It’s that time of the year: Public Domain Digitization! We’ve pulled a list of titles from our collections that will fall into the public domain on January 1, 2025, and now we need your help selecting the 25 items that we will scan to celebrate Public Domain 2025.

Why do we celebrate the public domain, and what is it anyway?  The public domain is a state in which a creative work belongs to the public as a whole and is not protected by copyright law. When copyright protection for a creative work expires, it falls into the public domain, where anyone can use it to create new works.

Authors and artists have long used the public domain as a source of raw material and inspiration. In fact, there is an argument that our entire copyright system is created to feed and grow a thriving public domain.  This is why we have celebrated each year since 2019:

Vote Now For What You Want Digitized for Public Domain 2025!
  • General Map Collection - Gandy Bridge, connecting Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla. ; map of main highways of the Florida peninsula. by Tampa & St. Petersburg Bridge Co. 3%, 8 votes
    8 votes 3%
    8 votes - 3% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - The original boogie woogie : piano solo by Smith, Pine Top, 1904-1929. 3%, 8 votes
    8 votes 3%
    8 votes - 3% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Smuggling days and smuggling ways, by Shore, Henry N., 1847-1926. 3%, 7 votes
    7 votes 3%
    7 votes - 3% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to acquire good taste : what is culture? by Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - St. Petersburg, Florida, the sunshine city. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to psycho-analyze your neighbors by Wood, Clement, 1888-1950. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Racial intermarriage in the United States : one of the most interesting phenomena in our national life by Schuyler, George S. 1895-1977. (George Samuel), 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - The Pirate of the Gulf, by Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - Stories of Robin Hood told to the children by Marshall, H. E. 1867-1941. (Henrietta Elizabeth), 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - Songs from the Florida Everglades, and other poems, by Patterson, Ruby Pearl. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - Alice in Elephantland by Bradley, Mary Hastings. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Queer Literature Collection - Between sunset & dawn by Birch, Lionel Jack Ernest. 2%, 6 votes
    6 votes 2%
    6 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Why wives leave home by Van Deventer, Betty. 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - Tampa Latina : numero dedicado a la fundación de Ybor y a las sociedades Latinas. 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - The Big budget for girls. 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - History, truth or propaganda? by Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968. 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - The Japanese persimmon in Florida by Camp, A. F. 1896- (Arthur Forrest), 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - What price paradise? by Hillgarth, Alan, 1899-1978. 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - The proposed national park in southern Everglades of Florida by Fairchild, David, 1869-1954. 2%, 5 votes
    5 votes 2%
    5 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Life and labor in the old South, by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934. 2%, 4 votes
    4 votes 2%
    4 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to be a gate-crasher by Marx, Samuel, 1902-1992. 2%, 4 votes
    4 votes 2%
    4 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - The extinct land mammals of Florida by Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984. 2%, 4 votes
    4 votes 2%
    4 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Is our civilization over-sexed? : Freud has lifted a great incubus of shame from man by House, S. Daniel b. 1888. (Samuel Daniel), 2%, 4 votes
    4 votes 2%
    4 votes - 2% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Are we civilized? Human cultures in perspective, by Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957. 2%, 4 votes
    4 votes 2%
    4 votes - 2% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Ain't misbehavin' : (I'm savin' my love for you) by Waller, Fats, 1904-1943. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - I've got a feeling I'm falling by Link, Harry, 1896-1956. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - The gangs of New York : an informal history of the underworld by Asbury, Herbert, 1891-1963. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - Pirates of the air by Adams, Eustace L. 1891-1963. (Eustace Lane), 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - It ain't no fault of mine : novelty song by Davis, Joe, 1896-1978. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Cotton pickers : piccaninny dance by Martin, Elizabeth Blackburn. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - Tom Swift and his house on wheels, or, A trip to the mountain of mystery by Appleton, Victor. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Am I blue? by Akst, Harry, 1894-1963. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Manuscript Collection - Harrison collection of Florida road maps. by Harrison, Lee D., collector. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to be a modern mother by Van Deventer, Betty. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Is birth control a sin? by Hibschman, Harry, b. 1879. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Broadway gangsters and their rackets by Marx, Samuel, 1902-1992. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Mah little tater blossom : Southern dialect song by Mayfield, Alice. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to become a radio artist by Van Deventer, Betty. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Basin Street blues by Williams, Spencer, 1889-1965. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Race and population problems, by Duncan, Hannibal Gerald, 1885-1950. 1%, 3 votes
    3 votes 1%
    3 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - O Mister Camel : fox trot : a la Negro spirituelle by Warde, Harry. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - The companionate marriage by Lindsey, Ben B. 1869-1943. (Ben Barr), 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Companionate divorce by Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - A day with "Our gang" by Packer, Eleanor. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - What did I do to be so black and blue by Waller, Fats, 1904-1943. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Queer Literature Collection - Le nu dans l'art : l'art chrétien depuis les origines jusqu'à la Renaissance by Richer, Paul, 1849-1933. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Confessions of a gold digger by Van Deventer, Betty. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - 'Tain't no sin (to dance around in your bones) by Donaldson, Walter, 1893-1947. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - S'posin' : ballad by Denniker, Paul, b. 1897. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Song of the Bayou by Bloom, Rube. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Piccaninny's hushabye : [op. 29, no. 2] by Brown, Hubert, 1898-1949. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Perhaps : song by Denniker, Paul, 1897- 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Out where the moonbeams are born by Davis, Lou, 1881-1961. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - The sexual factor in divorce by Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - My fate is in your hands by Waller, Fats, 1904-1943. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Sexual relations in the Southern states by Wood, Clement, 1888-1950. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Kewpie doll : a novelty fox trot by Rapée, Erno, 1891-1945. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - A new fossil toothed whale from Florida by Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - The Florida sunshine greeter. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - The battle of Oluste; a description of Florida's major battle in the way between the states, which took place near Lake City, February 20, 1864, by Cole, Ruth H. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Why I believe in trial marriage by Wood, Clement, 1888-1950. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - The romance and rise of the American tropics, by Crowther, Samuel, 1880-1947. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Curious and unusual love affairs by Winterbotham, R. R. 1904-1971. (Russell Robert), 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - The minstrel strut by Rose, Fred, 1897-1954. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Birmingham Bertha by Akst, Harry, 1894-1963. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Congratulations : ballad - fox - trot by Pinkard, Maceo, 1897-1962. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • African-American Sheet Music Collection - Denison's seven-eleven minstrel : by Alford, Harry L. 1%, 2 votes
    2 votes 1%
    2 votes - 1% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - The Florida oil reporter and Florida investor. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - Florida's financial and fiscal condition as of the early months of 1929 : covering 1927 and 1928 assessments, collections, etc. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - High tide and other stories by Smith, George Hoyt. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - Archie's Lancashire lass! by Brooks, Edwy Searles, 1889- 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Childrens Literature Collection - Great opera stories by Bender, Millicent Schwab, 1876- 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - Tampa Rotary Club presents "Follies of 1929" benefit juvenile work of West Tampa Boys' Club. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • General Music Collection - Bert Williams Folio of ne'er-to-be forgotten songs. by Bert Williams 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Floridiana Collection - Abstract of title to certain lands in Hillsborough County, Florida as described in the caption hereof : for lot 5, block 24, Beach Park unit # 2 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Marriage and the state : based upon field studies of the present day administration of marriage laws in the United States by Richmond, Mary Ellen, 1861-1928. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Our changing civilization : how science and the machine are reconstructing modern life by Randall, John Herman, Jr., 1899-1980. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Studies of American plants, by Standley, Paul Carpenter, 1884-1963. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
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  • Circulating Collection - The iron man & the tin woman, with other such futurities; a book of little sketches of to-day and to-morrow, by Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - Wild women of Broadway by Marx, Samuel, 1902-1992. 0%, 1 vote
    1 vote
    1 vote - 0% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - The causes of the World War by Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968. 0%, 0 votes
    0 votes
    0 votes - 0% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Present-day labor relations; a critical examination of methods of collective negotiation between employers and employees, by Gemmill, Paul F. 0%, 0 votes
    0 votes
    0 votes - 0% of all votes
  • Dobkin Collection of Americana - War, what for? by Fulks, Clay. 0%, 0 votes
    0 votes
    0 votes - 0% of all votes
  • Circulating Collection - Herba, gratiâ plena; die legenden der älteren segensprüche über den göttlichen ursprung der heil- und zauberkräuter, by Ohrt, Ferdinand Christian Peter, 1873- 0%, 0 votes
    0 votes
    0 votes - 0% of all votes
Total Votes: 247
Voters: 14
April 2, 2024 - May 5, 2024
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