"British Library uploads more than a million public domain images to Flickr"

"More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them."

 

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"We're looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display these unseen illustrations," said wrote Ben O'Steen in a British Library blog post. "There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of."

"The images come from the pages of books from the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s and were digitised by Microsoft, who then gifted them back to the British Library. In turn the British Library released them into the public domain."

 

Wired.co.uk