Wednesday, March 02, 2005

NY Library Putting Images Online

The New York Public Library is putting hundreds of thousands of its images online, allowing free personal downloads of material including maps, Civil War photos and illuminated medieval manuscripts.

The NYPL Digital Gallery will have 275,000 images available beginning Thursday, and the collection will grow to 500,000 images over the next several months, library officials announced Wednesday.

1 comment:

JNB said...

You are so right. And what I find amazing is that as the amount of info increases on the web- news articles etc. - we are writing history. I can research back through the 90's to read history as it happened. I don't have to wait for someone to write a book when I can Google!