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Old 05-01-2012, 08:57 AM   #1
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Royal Society Launches Picture Library
For science and history buffs, here's another free source for information.

Introducing the Royal Society Picture Library!

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We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new online picture library containing digital images of paintings, photographs, drawings and prints held in our collections. Browse our special themed galleries or dive straight into the advanced search and explore by subject, date and more!

Pictures have been catalogued to include detailed descriptions and provenance information; they have also, in many cases, been digitised for the first time.

The website is freely available for all to view and we hope it will prove a valuable tool for academic research. The resource also offers an image licensing service enabling users to purchase rights to reproduce the images in books, journals and many other mediums. Proceeds from image reproduction fees will be put towards conserving and developing our collections.
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Old 05-01-2012, 07:52 PM   #3
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Old 05-01-2012, 08:01 PM   #4
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Very cool - have it bookmarked for browsing! Thanks!
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Old 05-01-2012, 11:30 PM   #5
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The watermarks are a minor annoyance, I must admit.
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Very cool - have it bookmarked for browsing! Thanks!
Y'all are welcome. I love how various organizations are digitizing their collections and allowing public access. You can never have too much knowledge.
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Old 05-02-2012, 02:02 AM   #7
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The watermarks are a minor annoyance, I must admit.
Yeah, I noticed that too. But, it's a small price to pay for allowing free access.
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Old 05-02-2012, 02:16 AM   #8
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This is the fourth such thread I've started on institutions who've opened up digital collections to the public. For those interested, here are the links to the series:
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Didn't Microsoft, or was it Bill Gates personally, have some kind of project that would accumulate high-res images of all the art in the world? Anyone knows its name, or what happened?
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[QUOTE=tubemonkey;2065218]This is the fourth such thread I've started on institutions who've opened up digital collections to the public. For those interested, here are the links to the series:.....quote]

Very, very, very cool !

Thanks for the tips...
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This is the fourth such thread I've started on institutions who've opened up digital collections to the public. For those interested, here are the links to the series:
The British Museum also has a database of images (and other information) of over 2 million items in its collection available online:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore.aspx
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Old 05-02-2012, 07:25 AM   #12
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To add to this thread listing such online collections:

The Google Art Project

Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections
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The Albert Kahn Museum in Paris houses a fascinating collection of early colour photographs and b/w film from around 50 countries all over the globe, taken between 1910 and 1930. Only a limited selection of pictures can be found on the site, but it is nevertheless worth a visit. The actual museum even more so.

On a somewhat related note, Paris 26 Gigapixels is simply intensely cool! If you can't visit Paris, then this is the best substitute I know of.

PS: the topic of this thread should be changed and it should be made a sticky for storing sites such as these.
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