The New York Public Library hangs in the network portion of your file
The Public Library New York put on NYPL Digital Gallery , most of your history file; Approximately 275,000 images ( maps, posters , photographs of the U.S. Civil War , manuscripts, etc.). we can now freely download and save to your computer for personal use.
The fund is organized into seven categories:
Arts & Literature: Artworks and objects, Creators, dance, design, furniture, motion pictures, music, ornament, performance, spectacle, theater .
Cities & Buildings : Architecture, cityscape, infrastructure, monuments, town life.
Culture & Society : Costume, country life, customs, dress, family life, fashion, social history, sports, traditions.
History & Geography : Events, landscape, maps, military history, politicians, public figures, scenery and views, travel.
Industry & Technology : Agriculture, business, communication, engineering, invention, labor, transportation.
Nature & Science : Anatomy, animals, astronomy, botany, the environment, fish, flowers, geology, history of science.
Printing & Graphics: Advertising, book binding, dust jackets, friendship books, menus, post cards, posters, trade and greeting cards.
To locate the images you can navigate through " names," themes "or" libraries, and can search them by keyword, allowing the use of Boolean operators and wildcards (as explained in search assistance), and offers the possibility to use the advanced search .
The results are arranged in groups of 12, offering a small photo display with the title and the identity code, clicking on each, we get to the appropriate tab and have the option to extend the dimensions of the image .
certainly is an initiative to keep in mind, and that after the Google initiative to digitize prints funds several university libraries, can be a turning point in the way of conceiving of library collections.
In the words of the director of the NYPL, PaulLeClerc :
"By opening the doors of our acclaimed collection of Internet users, the library service dives into a new and exciting era, "a reminder that the material will be available for anyone in the world, anytime, for free." You only need an Internet connection.continue scanning tasks , hoping to reach half a million images.
Diving at the bottom I found some curiosities like the Goya lithograph, titled as: Dibersión in Spain, or a nice reminder of our currency, the peseta we can also see by reverse :
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