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A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images

Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More

Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive

A Digital Archive Features Hundreds of Audio Cassette Tape Designs, from the 1960s to the 1990s

Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the Internet Archive

Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics

Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images

Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926

The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Use

The Internet Archive Launches Democracy’s Library, a Free Online Library of 500,000 Documents Supporting Democracy

10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection

Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More

30,000 Photographs of Black History & Culture Are Available Online in a New Getty Images Archive

An Online Archive of Beautiful, Early 20th Century Japanese Postcards

Explore a Big Archive of Vintage Early Comics: 1700-1929

The Marcel Duchamp Research Portal Opens, Making Available 18,000 Documents and 50,000 Images Related to the Revolutionary Artist

1,100 Delicate Drawings of Root Systems Reveals the Hidden World of Plants

400,000+ Sound Recordings Made Before 1923 Have Entered the Public Domain

Download 215,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters Spanning the Tradition’s 350-Year History

The Black Film Archive: A New Site Highlights 200+ Noteworthy Black Films Made Between 1915-1979

A Few Notes on A Few Notes on The Culture

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Stream 160 In-Depth Radio Interviews with Clive James, Pico Iyer, Greil Marcus & Other Luminaries from the Marketplace of Ideas Archive

Where to Read Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Online: A Roundup of the Renaissance Man’s Digitized Manuscripts

The Letterform Archive Launches a New Online Archive of Graphic Design, Featuring 9,000 Hi-Fi Images

The Archive of Healing Is Now Online: UCLA’s Digital Database Provides Access to Thousands of Traditional & Alternative Healing Methods

How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time

4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online

A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project”

The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, “the Bible of the Newspaper Industry”