British Library 1M Public Domain images

British Library 1M Public Domain images

Collection

The British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images back, allowing the British Library to release them back into the Public Domain.

Public Domain

English

British Library

UK

Phil Hatfield, British Library Curator in Canadian and Caribbean Studies, and Andrew Gray, British Library Wikipedian in Residence, kick off our brand new Curator’s Choice series by taking a look at the fascinating array of photographs in the British Library’s Canadian Colonial Copyright Collection.

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/canada-through-a-lens/