Millions of historic images posted to Flickr (BBC)

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By Leo Kelion
Technology desk editor

An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.

Kalev Leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to Flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added.

The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation.

The images have been difficult to access until now.

Mr Leetaru said digitisation projects had so far focused on words and ignored pictures.


The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet

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1. From me and my fellow artists, a great big kiss!

what a treasure, in this day and age!