Shannon pointed us to the New York Public Library Digital Galleries this afternoon, and I’ve been geeking out hard core on it so far. &, since I’m in Library School, and doing research on digital libraries, it means that I’m not just playing around and wasting time. Here’s the stuff I’ve liked most so far:
- The Trouvelot astronomical drawings (in Pictures of Science: 700 years of Scientific & Medical Illustration)
- "Classic 6:" New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s
Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1856-1930
Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins’s Cyanotypes of British Algae
I totally need to get figure out a research project for this.