British Library - Images (Flickr)The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images. The release of these collections into the public domain represent the Library's desire to improve knowledge of and about them, to enable novel and unexpected ways of using them, and to begin working with researchers to explore and interpret large scale digital collections.
The first set we have added come from a British Library Labs project dubbed the Mechanical Curator, which located more than a million images from within our digitized collection of over 65,000 books from the 17th-19th centuries. Over time more public domain collections will be added.
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