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Public-domain photographs, maps, menus, ephemera and prints digitised by the New York Public Library, downloadable at high resolution.
Why it’s a gem
The ephemera - menus, tickets, stereographs - is the part designers actually want.
Not-for-profit journal curating and contextualising strange public-domain art, prints and books, with downloadable collections.
Hundreds of thousands of scientific plates, botanical and zoological illustrations pulled from digitised natural history literature.
Consolidated searchable archive of NASA imagery and video with EXIF data and multiple resolutions, generally free to use.
Aggregated search across thousands of European galleries, libraries, archives and museums with per-item reuse rights.
CC0 collection of restored and digitally enhanced public-domain artwork, vintage illustration and pattern scans.
One million public-domain illustrations mechanically extracted from digitised 17th-19th century books, released for open reuse.