Dickens, Darwin, Dr. Johnson: Millions of Images From the British Library Now Available Online -

The British Library released more than a million images from its books to the public domain, publishing them to Flickr Commons for anyone to use or adapt. The images come from 46,000 books from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, by authors both revered (Dickens!) and forgotten. 

The library’s release comes at the end of a year full of similar, and similarly massive, donations. In August, the J. Paul Getty Trust gave almost 5,000 high-quality images of art—including works by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Durer—to the public domain. In the spring, too, the national museum of the Netherlands released over 125,000 images of its works for free use online.

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Dickens, Darwin, Dr. Johnson: Millions of Images From the British Library Now Available Online - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic: