{"id":2388,"date":"2014-08-29T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:26:33","slug":"millions-of-classic-images-free-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/millions-of-classic-images-free-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of classic images, free online."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalev Leetaru has uploaded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/internetarchivebookimages\/with\/14784850762\/\">searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images <\/a>to Flickr.\u00a0 Most of the images that are in the books are not in any of the art galleries of the world &#8211; the original copies have long ago been lost.\u00a0 The pictures range from 1500 to 1922, when copyright restrictions kick in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-header\">BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-28976849\">Millions of historical images posted to Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/internetarchivebookimages\/14598562758\/in\/photostream\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/5588\/14598562758_af10af1dfb_c.jpg?resize=782%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image from page 502 of &quot;The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and\" width=\"782\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalev Leetaru has uploaded a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images to Flickr.\u00a0 Most of the images that are in the books are not in any of the art galleries of the world &#8211; the original copies have long ago been lost.\u00a0 The pictures range from 1500 to 1922, when copyright restrictions kick &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/millions-of-classic-images-free-online\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Millions of classic images, free online.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-mediaandgatherings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Cw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}