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Friday, October 2017

Rare history: Take a daily trip down memory lane through Getty’s expansive archives

Instagram isn't just for photos of food and cats thanks in part to accounts like the GettyFlashback page. GettyFlashback is an account dedicated to sharing rare old photos from Getty's massive archive of images. The images come with informative captions, which makes perusing through their past posts an educational...

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Sunday, August 2016

Going back in Gotham: OldNYC lets you explore 19th and early 20th century streets of New York City

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Earlier this year, I wrote a story about the New York Public Library (NYPL) adding nearly 200,000 high-resolution images to their Digital Collections archive. They opened up their files and offered an improved API for developers as well. Dan Vanderkam has taken advantage and collaborated with the NYPL to create what is...

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