NYPL – Digital Gallery
There are over 600,000 images in The New York Public Library Digital Gallery! The Gallery helps to fulfill the “traditional goal” of The Library “to select, collect, preserve and make accessible the accumulated wisdom of the world, without distinction as to income, religion, nationality, or other human condition.” The Gallery offers “digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more.
While the site explains that images an be freely downloaded for personal, research, and study purposes only, their User’s Guide includes detailed information on their terms for commercial use. In part: “As the physical rights holder of this material, most of which is in the public domain for copyright purposes, the Library charges a usage fee to license an image for commercial use.”
The collection include images relating to applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences and include drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and so on.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:13 am
This is a good move by the museum authorities. A digital gallery would be an added asset to the museum. The site is very interesting with images and loads of information. This would be very useful to the students.
September 16th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Gloria,
Thanks so much for the links to royalty free images. These are wonderful resources! And thanks for being so generous with you info and tips. YOU are a treasure!
Ann F.