New York Public Library Digital Image Collection
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
The New York Public Library Digital Image Collection is a well organized and useful collection of all sorts of visual references, from famous photographs, paintings and maps, to posters and descriptive diagrams. Dig around in this collection and hours later you’ll come up for air. I just spent an hour digging. Gad.
Here’s a random one that I liked:
Shushan emek uyamah, kerovah for shaharit of Yom Kippur
Creator: David bar Pesah – Scribe
Created: 14th Century
Medium: Ink drawings
YPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
The recent Associate Press article on this collection:
NEW YORK (AP) -A collection of 275,000K images including maps. Civil War photos, illuminated medieval manuscripts and historic menus will be accessible online starting today, the New York Public Library announced.
“By opening the doors of our acclaimed collections to users over the Internet, we are plunging fully into an exciting new era of library service,‚Δω library President Paul LeClerc said Wednesday. “These visual materials, many of which are unique to the library, will be available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection at any time, free of charge.”
The initial 275,000 items in the NYPL Digital Gallery”, elected by curators from all the library.