New York Public Library throws 275,000 archived works online
ABOVE: Orange (1923), by Vasily Kandinsky, one of the thousands of images newly available through the New York Public Library’s online collection.
As of March 3, the New York Public Library is making its digital online collection of photographs, prints, maps, and assorted other biblio-ephemera available free to the general public—until today you would have had to be using a NYPL computer terminal to get access.
As this New York Times article points out, the collection is not the easiest to search effectively, but with a few swings at the interface you can boogie down with your boolean self. Every image is available free for personal use, so you can take what you like as long as you’re using it for your private edification.
The site was moving a little sluggishly this morning from all us cyber-tourists crowding in, but New Yorkers are no strangers to gawking provincials, right?