What’s
not to love about the Internet
Archive? It has so many resources that benefit our
research from digitized books (including directories, court cases and so much
more) to digitized web pages (Wayback Machine), and more.
The newest venture is The Commons – The Internet Archive has now
uploaded millions of images to Flickr.
Read more about this via Internet Archive Uploads Millions of
Historical Images to Flickr (David Murphy, PC Magazine).
If you have a hankering for some
old-timey cat pictures, the Internet Archive has you covered. Specifically, the
Internet Archive's Flickr account will likely contain that which you seek, as
the organization recently posted several million images to the popular
photo-sharing site.
These images are the first batch of
what the Internet Archive is calling “The Commons,” a new collection made up photographs from the more than 600 million
book pages that the organization has digitally scanned. The pages themselves
amount to more than 19 petabytes of data—with more than 14 million images
eventually expected to make their way online.
The Commons currently has over 2.5
million photos posted and it is a virtual visual feast!
When you click on any image you are
told its source – the publication, date, and page. It also tells whether there are any known
copyright restrictions in place.
I just was trawling through the
images and came across “Image from page 468 of “Allen county, Indiana, circuit
court record general index” (1824)” and “Image from page 253 of “Olcott’s land
values blue book of Chicago
Whether you want to feast your eyes upon some historic pictures or spot some clues regarding your ancestors and/or their lives, do check out this ever-growing collection of images.
Editor’s Note: Other Upfront
with NGS posts about Internet Archive -- Internet Archive -- still a
wonderful and free gem for genealogy and family history researchers! (Dec 2012) and Finding
guides for select NARA collections on the Internet Archive (May 2011)
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