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In the Internet Archive's Millions of Public-Domain Images, a Guide to Museum History
The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to offer an entryway into its over 500 years of historical texts already online.
Digitization
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Dreamlike Photos from an Early 20th-Century Broadway Bestiary
Back in 1911, one of the most talked-about Broadway roles was played by a woman dressed as a rooster, and now you can revisit the surreal staging with recently digitized photographs from the Museum of the City of New York.
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15 Million Pages of Medical History Are Going Online
Over the next two years, the Wellcome Library, partnered with digital technology charity Jisc, is collaborating with nine institutions to put 15 million pages of 19th-century medical books online.
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The Library That Kept Darwin Company for Five Years, Reconstructed
For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were dispersed, only now reassembled in a digital form.
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Biodiversity Traced in Over 2 Million Natural History Museum Images
From rows of tiny pinned insects to drawers of stuffed birds of prey, the holdings of natural history museums are as varied as the biodiversity they collect. However, accessibility is often a problem, as is the connection of data across institutions.
News
Morgan Library Puts Hundreds of Rembrandt Etchings Online
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has completed the digitization of its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings.
Books
The Call to Action to Save Digitized Books from Oblivion
Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the history of literature, but there is something lost about the book as a physical object.
News
Visit the Entire Archive of the Historic 'Brooklyn Daily Eagle' Online
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle — also called, at various times, the Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat and simply the Brooklyn Eagle — covered the goings on of the city and borough of Brooklyn for over a century. The Brooklyn Public Library's local history division, the Brooklyn Collection, has team
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A 19th-Century Map of the Geology Hidden Beneath NYC Streets
There was much rejoicing among cartography lovers when the New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division recently released over 20,000 maps for free use.
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Tricks and Trade of 19th-Century Magic in Houdini's Digitized Scrapbooks
Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown.
News
Vatican and Oxford Launch Ambitious Digital Archive of Ancient Texts
The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have some of the richest collections of ancient biblical texts, but most of them are inaccessible to the general public. Now, through a collaborative project, 1.5 million manuscript pages are being digitized for public access o