NYPL’s NEW Digital Collections

The New York Public Library made a recent and exciting announcement --it has made available more than 180,000 images of public domain material from its collection as high-resolution downloads. The idea is to “facilitate sharing, research and reuse by scholars, artists, educators, technologists, publishers, and Internet users of all kinds.”

Images hail from every nook of the NYPL’s rich holdings, from medieval manuscripts to Federal Art Project and Farm Security Administration photographs. Looks nice, I still have to check max resolution available on those sources but... some samples below (links to source provided on images caption):

Henry David Thoreau’s holograph draft manuscript of “Wild Apples,” 1850-1860.

Text with illuminated miniatures, c. 1500-1525.

Chromolithograph map, “Linguistic stocks of American Indians north of Mexico,” 1891.

Photograph by Berenice Abbott, “Oyster Houses, South Street and Pike Slip, Manhattan,” 1935.