Historical Images in the Public Domain

There are a lot of images from museums and libraries that have been scanned and have specifically been identified by the owners as in the public domain. This means they can be used in the Caid wiki. Here are some those places:

• British Library, 1,000,000 images on Flicker, https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
• British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/introduction.asp
  • Although still technically in copyright in the UK (and a number of other common law territories) the images are being made available under a Public Domain Mark* which indicates that there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, adaptation, republication or sharing of the content available from the site.
• The Getty Museum, 87,000 Art Images, http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html
• LA County Museum of Art, 20,000 Images, http://collections.lacma.org
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 400,000 Images, OASC = Open Access for Scholarly Content http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online
• Rijksmuseum, 125,000 Dutch masterpieces, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection
• The Vatican Library, 4,000 Ancient mss, https://www.vatlib.it/home.php?ling=eng&res=1920x1080

   Digitized Illuminated Manuscripts 

• Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis website: http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/
• OPENN curated collections: http://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/bibliophilly_contents.html
• BiblioPhilly main interface: http://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/
• Colenda Digital Repository: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/
• Durham Priory Library Recreated: https://www.durhampriory.ac.uk/
• Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bibliotheca-philadelphiensis