How to browse and keep historical images

New York Public Library (NYPL) releases large numbers of posters, maps, ancient texts, drawings and manuscripts online. New York Public Library (NYPL) gifting the web user more than 180,000 images used without restriction.

You can search through these and 500,000 more digitized items in the collection using desire keywords, or browse or scroll library and view the images and collections.
Each image can be downloaded in various sizes. One amazing visualization lets you scroll library by genre, century, collection or colour and is well worth playing around with. If you keep an eye on the blog, you can discover a lot of regarding the fascinating stories behind certain collections. The (NYPL) library is looking for people to think new ways of presenting the NYPL materials as games and interactive content, so there should be exciting things ahead.


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