The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery is a huge resource containing over 700,000 images of assorted subjects from various parts of the world. While there are of course large numbers of pictures that are associated with the Big Apple, there are all sorts of other treasures there as well–such as the early Japanese photograph pictured above which comes from a set of 100 early Asian prints and photos. Another interesting angle to this collection is that way that the NYPL’s pictures have also been put into a Flickr set so that the public can help tag and aid in cataloging the institution’s many images.
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