NYPL Enhances Public Domain Collections For Sharing and Reuse
http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/05/share-public-domain-collections
Over 180,000 digitized items, the article says. And I quote:
Materials include:
* Berenice Abbott's iconic documentation of 1930s New York for the Federal Art Project
* Farm Security Administration photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others
* Manuscripts of American literary masters like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Papers and correspondence of founding American political figures like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
* Sheet music for popular American songs at the turn of the 20th century
* WPA-era lithographs, etchings, and pastels by African American artists
* Lewis Hine's photographs of Ellis Island immigrants and social conditions in early 20th century America
* Anna Atkins' cyanotypes of British algae, the first recorded photographic work by a woman (1843)
* Handscrolls of the Tale of Genji, created in 1554
* Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Western Europe
* Over 20,000 maps and atlases documenting New York City, North America, and the world
* More than 40,000 stereoscopic views documenting all regions of the United States
Visit http://nypl.org/publicdomain for information about the materials related to the public domain update and links to all of the projects demonstrating creative reuse of public domain materials. Go forth, and reuse!
http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/05/share-public-domain-collections
Over 180,000 digitized items, the article says. And I quote:
Materials include:
* Berenice Abbott's iconic documentation of 1930s New York for the Federal Art Project
* Farm Security Administration photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others
* Manuscripts of American literary masters like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Papers and correspondence of founding American political figures like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
* Sheet music for popular American songs at the turn of the 20th century
* WPA-era lithographs, etchings, and pastels by African American artists
* Lewis Hine's photographs of Ellis Island immigrants and social conditions in early 20th century America
* Anna Atkins' cyanotypes of British algae, the first recorded photographic work by a woman (1843)
* Handscrolls of the Tale of Genji, created in 1554
* Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Western Europe
* Over 20,000 maps and atlases documenting New York City, North America, and the world
* More than 40,000 stereoscopic views documenting all regions of the United States
Visit http://nypl.org/publicdomain for information about the materials related to the public domain update and links to all of the projects demonstrating creative reuse of public domain materials. Go forth, and reuse!
... been working years in a library where I was in charge of allowing (or not) the sale of photos, microfilms etc ... of books to customers. That was before it all got digitized.
