The British Library publishes more than 1 million images on Flickr, anyone can use it for free

ByAlex Watson

Established in 1973 and one of the world's leading libraries where valuable materials around the world are gatheredBritish LibraryHas released more than 1 million images on Flickr. The image is a document scanned from the 17th century to the 19th century, and all the maps, illustrations, satire, decorations, decorated letters, mural paintings etc. are allPublic domainIt is free to download and use it.

A million first steps - Digital scholarship blog
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html

Examples of images actually published on Flickr are as follows.

Flickr: The British Library's Photostream


The landscape picture below. Each image has tags such as era, book editor's name, page number, etc., and keyword search is possible.


Musical score


National material


Illustration like illustration


logo


Japanese castle was discovered


I also have pictures


Embroidery pattern


Portrait


There was also a color illustration


These are proceeding with the Microsoft at the British LibraryBook electronization projectImages scanned with.The Norwegian National Library digitizes all materials including newspapers, books, movies, And they are both trying to be able to access materials and share knowledge without having to go to the physical library.