One of the most interesting sites I have found lately is the complete digital archives of The New York Public Library. Ever-expanding, the collection now includes 829,936 historical images available for viewing and downloading. Here are just a few of the hundreds of themes available.
1. Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works 1550-1900 (7900 items)
Pipilo leucopis. White-eyed Towhee. Adult, male. [Shrub, Dwarf Oak.]
2. The Denishawn Collection of Dance Photographs (941 items)
Ruth St. Denis in first costume inspired by Egyptian Deities cigarette poster.
3. Engineering Playing Cards (52 items)
Two of clubs.
4. Bookbinding bequeathed by William
Augustus Spencer (704 items)
Front Doublure
5. Pictures of science: 700 years of
science and medical illustrations (299 items)
Total eclipse of the sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory.
6. Dress and fashion: design and manufacture
(566 items)
Madiana.
7. Russian book jackets 1917-1942
(656 items)
Sel'vinskii, Il’ia L’vovich. Pushtorg. [Fur-Trade.] Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia Literatura, 1931.
8. Farm Security Administration photographs
(1094 items)
At the "girlie" show at the fair in Rutland, Vermont.
9. Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection
(3710 items)
Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio : quam ex magna universali
Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographie ac ceterarum
bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amicitie ac
familiaritatis memoriam Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A0. M.D.
LXXXVII.
10. Buttolph collection of menus. (18,964 items)
ANNUAL DINNER [held by] NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
If you love photograpy, cartography, the theater, early pop culture, postcards, books, history, Americana, New York City, opera, astronomy, biology, botany and literally thousands of other topics this is a great page to enjoy and to do research on your collection of ephemera. You may never sleep again. Amazing. The Digital Collection of the archives of the New York Public Library is available here, and it is free.
1. Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works 1550-1900 (7900 items)
2. The Denishawn Collection of Dance Photographs (941 items)
3. Engineering Playing Cards (52 items)
4. Bookbinding bequeathed by William
Augustus Spencer (704 items)
5. Pictures of science: 700 years of
science and medical illustrations (299 items)
6. Dress and fashion: design and manufacture
(566 items)
7. Russian book jackets 1917-1942
(656 items)
8. Farm Security Administration photographs
(1094 items)
9. Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection
(3710 items)
10. Buttolph collection of menus. (18,964 items)
If you love photograpy, cartography, the theater, early pop culture, postcards, books, history, Americana, New York City, opera, astronomy, biology, botany and literally thousands of other topics this is a great page to enjoy and to do research on your collection of ephemera. You may never sleep again. Amazing. The Digital Collection of the archives of the New York Public Library is available here, and it is free.
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