Millions of historic images posted to Flickr. By Robert Miller, Global Director of Books, Internet Archive “Reading a book from the inside out!”. Well not quite, but a new way to read our eBooks has just been launched. Check out this great BBC article: Here is the fabulous Flickr commons collection: And here is our welcome to Flickr’s Common Post: What is it and how did it get done? How many images are there? What is fun to do with this collection?
Future plans? Questions about this collection, projects or things to come? The Public Domain Review. Wellcome Images. Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution. NYPL Digital Collections. American Museum of Natural History Launches Free Online Image Database. Dimock, Julian A. “Three Seminole girls, The Everglades, Florida, 1907.” from the AMNH Digital Special Collections The American Museum of Natural History’s (AMNH) research library last month hosted the official launch of its new online image database for Digital Special Collections. Begun as a project to digitize 1,000 of the museum’s photos and rare book illustrations using grant funding from the New York Metropolitan Library Council, the Digital Special Collections program has evolved into a long-term project that will offer the public free online access to the museum’s research library collection.
The new database includes more than 7,000 archival images that document the Museum’s efforts in New York and around the world, dating back to scientific expeditions from the 19th century. “The Digital Special Collections site, unfortunately, only makes available less than one percent of the images in the library’s collections,” he said. “Dutch women, Ellis Island” [n.d.] Rota, Alex J. Stills from prohibition era. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Picture Collection Online - Search Results. Chinamen at home ; A Chinese tea server. IMAGE ID: 833618 Add to MyGallery At "five o'clock tea". IMAGE ID: 804550 Add to MyGallery A tea-gown of chiffon and satin. Add to MyGallery The people throwing tea overboard -- April, 1774. Add to MyGallery Mrs.
Add to MyGallery. The Sleeping Beauties Of China. China is a country hard at work trying to become the world’s wealthiest, richest and most powerful nation. It’s just that sometimes they need to take a little break from all that hard work. Join TotallyCoolPix on Facebook, Twitter, join our Flickr Group or find us on Google+. 1Passengers sleep at the waiting hall of a railway station in Wuhu. Stringer China / Reuters 2Construction worker sleeps near construction site in Beijing. 3A traveller sleeps while waiting for his train at the Beijing Railway Station. 4A vendor sleeps on grapefruits at wholesale market in Nanjing. 5A labourer sleeps on a tricycle near a red wall beside Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 6A man transports quilts that will be recycled as his son sleeps on them in Xiangfan. 7A labourer takes a nap at a construction site in Xiangfan. 8Passengers sleep at the Beijing West Railway Station. 9Paramilitary policemen sleep at a platform of the Guangzhou railway station. 23A vendor sleeps next his vegetables at a market in Jinan.
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