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The British Library Has Made Three Centuries of Copyright-Free Images Available for Download

https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/06/25/the-british-library-has-made-three-centuries-of-copyright-free-images-available-for-download/

Via Core77

The thing about books is that they’re not very much good when they’re closed and wedged into a shelf. At the same time, no sensible curator would let you put your grubby little mitts on a 250-year-old treasure. So, starting in 2013, the British Library began scanning thousands of books from the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, and has now made all of the images contained within them free to download (they’re all well out of copyright).

Read more: https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/06/25/the-british-library-has-made-three-centuries-of-copyright-free-images-available-for-download/