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The Met Museum in New York City recently digitized its collection, releasing nearly 400,000 images for free under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. A CC0 license means that all of the images are available for unrestricted use.
You can search through the collection of digitized work here and utilize several filters...
Last week, the New York Public Library added 180,000 digitized items to its Digital Collections.
These out-of-copyright materials are all available in high-resolution downloads for any use. Alongside these new materials, the Digital Collections site itself has seen improvements, including more prominent download links...
The British Library has taken an immense volume of digitized images, and released them into the wilds on Flickr for people to use, play with, remix, and just generally do whatever they want to. More than a million images from 17th, 18th and 19th century books have been released in an immense Flickr upload, and the...
We've come a long way from the earliest days of aerial photography. While current legislators debate the use of flying drones to capture airborne images, cast your mind back to just how amazing the very first crop of aerial photographs must of been for people, offering them a view that few had seen of their cities from the skies. The very first aerial photographs were from 1858...
The Invasion of Normandy in 1944 was one of the most important battlefronts in WWII and made an indelible mark on the history of the United States. The D-Day invasion and the following weeks saw hundreds of thousands of both the Axis and Allied forces killed during the action in what was a crucial military action....