Most of us Open Culture writers and readers surely grew up thinking of the local public library as an endless source of fascinating things. Just the New York Public Library's collections take that to a whole other level, and, so far, they've spent the historic period of the internet taking it to a level beyond that, digitizing ever more of their fascinating things and making them freely bachelor for all of our perusal (and even for apply in our own work). Just in the past couple of years, we've featured their release of 20,000 loftier-resolution maps, 17,000 eatery menus, and lots of theater ephemera.
This week, The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced not but that their digital collection at present contains over 180,000 items, but that they've made it possible, "no permission required, no hoops to jump through," to download and use loftier-resolution images of all of them.
You'll discover on their site "more prominent download links and filters highlighting brake-complimentary content," and, if you accept techier interests, "updates to the Digital Collections API enabling bulk use and analysis, equally well as information exports and utilities posted to NYPL'southward GitHub account." Y'all might also consider applying for the NYPL's Remix Residency programme, designed to foster "transformative and creative uses of digital collections and data, and the public domain assets in particular."
And what do those avails include? Indelible pieces of American documentary art like the Farm Security Administration photographs taken during the Corking Depression by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks. Lange's shot of the Midway Dairy Cooperative almost Santa Ana, California appears at the top of the post. Artifacts from the creative processes of such icons of American literature equally Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman, whose handwritten preface toSpecimen Days you'll notice second from the top. The letters and other papers of the Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson'due south list of books for a individual library only above. And, of class, all those maps, like the 1868 Plan of New York and Brooklyn merely below.
These selections make the NYPL'due south digital collection seem strongly America-focused, and to an extent it is, merely autonomously from hosting a rich repository of the history, art, and letters of the United states of america, it too contains such fascinating international materials every bit medieval European illuminated manuscripts; 16th-century handscrolls illustratingThe Tale of Genji, the kickoff novel; and 19th-century cyanotypes of British algae by botanist and photographer Anna Atkins, the offset person to publish a book illustrated with photos. You tin can showtime your own browsing on the NYPL Digital Collections front end page, and if you practice, you'll soon find that something else we knew virtually the library growing up — what adept places they make in which to get lost — holds fifty-fifty truer on the internet.
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Based in Seoul,Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities and culture. He's at work on a book virtually Los Angeles,A Los Angeles Primer, the video seriesThe City in Cinema, the crowdfunded journalism projectWhere Is the City of the Futurity?, and the Los Angeles Review of Books' Korea Blog. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.
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