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 votes8 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 votes8 votes 3%8 votes - 3% of all votes
- Circulating Collection - Smuggling days and smuggling ways, by Shore, Henry N., 1847-1926. 3%, 7 votes7 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 votes6 votes 2%6 votes - 2% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - St. Petersburg, Florida, the sunshine city. 2%, 6 votes6 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 votes6 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 votes6 votes 2%6 votes - 2% of all votes
- Childrens Literature Collection - The Pirate of the Gulf, by Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952. 2%, 6 votes6 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 votes6 votes 2%6 votes - 2% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - Songs from the Florida Everglades, and other poems, by Patterson, Ruby Pearl. 2%, 6 votes6 votes 2%6 votes - 2% of all votes
- Childrens Literature Collection - Alice in Elephantland by Bradley, Mary Hastings. 2%, 6 votes6 votes 2%6 votes - 2% of all votes
- Queer Literature Collection - Between sunset & dawn by Birch, Lionel Jack Ernest. 2%, 6 votes6 votes 2%6 votes - 2% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - Why wives leave home by Van Deventer, Betty. 2%, 5 votes5 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 votes5 votes 2%5 votes - 2% of all votes
- Childrens Literature Collection - The Big budget for girls. 2%, 5 votes5 votes 2%5 votes - 2% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - History, truth or propaganda? by Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968. 2%, 5 votes5 votes 2%5 votes - 2% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - The Japanese persimmon in Florida by Camp, A. F. 1896- (Arthur Forrest), 2%, 5 votes5 votes 2%5 votes - 2% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - What price paradise? by Hillgarth, Alan, 1899-1978. 2%, 5 votes5 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 votes5 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 votes4 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 votes4 votes 2%4 votes - 2% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - The extinct land mammals of Florida by Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984. 2%, 4 votes4 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 votes4 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 votes4 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 votes3 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 votes3 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 votes3 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 votes3 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 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Cotton pickers : piccaninny dance by Martin, Elizabeth Blackburn. 1%, 3 votes3 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 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Am I blue? by Akst, Harry, 1894-1963. 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Manuscript Collection - Harrison collection of Florida road maps. by Harrison, Lee D., collector. 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to be a modern mother by Van Deventer, Betty. 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - Is birth control a sin? by Hibschman, Harry, b. 1879. 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - Broadway gangsters and their rackets by Marx, Samuel, 1902-1992. 1%, 3 votes3 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 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - How to become a radio artist by Van Deventer, Betty. 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Basin Street blues by Williams, Spencer, 1889-1965. 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Circulating Collection - Race and population problems, by Duncan, Hannibal Gerald, 1885-1950. 1%, 3 votes3 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 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Circulating Collection - The companionate marriage by Lindsey, Ben B. 1869-1943. (Ben Barr), 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - Companionate divorce by Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Childrens Literature Collection - A day with "Our gang" by Packer, Eleanor. 1%, 2 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - Confessions of a gold digger by Van Deventer, Betty. 1%, 2 votes2 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 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - S'posin' : ballad by Denniker, Paul, b. 1897. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Song of the Bayou by Bloom, Rube. 1%, 2 votes2 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 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Perhaps : song by Denniker, Paul, 1897- 1%, 2 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - A new fossil toothed whale from Florida by Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - The Florida sunshine greeter. 1%, 2 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 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 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - The minstrel strut by Rose, Fred, 1897-1954. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Birmingham Bertha by Akst, Harry, 1894-1963. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Congratulations : ballad - fox - trot by Pinkard, Maceo, 1897-1962. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- African-American Sheet Music Collection - Denison's seven-eleven minstrel : by Alford, Harry L. 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - The Florida oil reporter and Florida investor. 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 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 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - High tide and other stories by Smith, George Hoyt. 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Childrens Literature Collection - Archie's Lancashire lass! by Brooks, Edwy Searles, 1889- 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Childrens Literature Collection - Great opera stories by Bender, Millicent Schwab, 1876- 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Floridiana Collection - Tampa Rotary Club presents "Follies of 1929" benefit juvenile work of West Tampa Boys' Club. 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- General Music Collection - Bert Williams Folio of ne'er-to-be forgotten songs. by Bert Williams 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 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 vote1 vote1 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 vote1 vote1 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 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Circulating Collection - Studies of American plants, by Standley, Paul Carpenter, 1884-1963. 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- 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 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - Wild women of Broadway by Marx, Samuel, 1902-1992. 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - The causes of the World War by Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968. 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 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 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Dobkin Collection of Americana - War, what for? by Fulks, Clay. 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 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 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
Total Votes: 247
Voters: 14
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