British Library releases a million public domain images

The British Library has posted a million public domain images from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to Flickr, the photo sharing website.  The million first steps will attempt to crowdsource information about the images but also makes them available for repurposing.  The next time you need a public domain image for a project, check this out.

We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display these 'unseen illustrations'. The images were plucked from the pages as part of the 'Mechanical Curator', a creation of the British Library Labs project. Each image is individually addressible, online, and Flickr provies an API to access it and the image's associated description.  - See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html#sthash.wpVuFfpr.dpuf

We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display these 'unseen illustrations'. The images were plucked from the pages as part of the 'Mechanical Curator', a creation of the British Library Labs project. Each image is individually addressible, online, and Flickr provies an API to access it and the image's associated description.  - See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html#sthash.wpVuFfpr.dpuf