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The Marcel Duchamp Research Portal Opens, Making Available 18,000 Documents...

Marcel Duchamp made films, composed music, painted Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, designed an art deco chess set, and of course — the first thing most of us learn about him, as well as the last...

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

The popularity of graphic novels (and more than a few extremely lucrative superhero movie franchises) have conferred respectability on comics. Handsome reissues of such stunning early works as Winsor...

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

The world thinks of Japan as having transformed itself utterly after its defeat in the Second World War. And indeed it did, into what by the nineteen-eighties looked like a gleaming,...

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30,000 Photographs of Black History & Culture Are Available Online in a New...

Image of Charles S.L. Baker with his Superheating Demonstration Black History Month is February in the United States and Canada, and October in the United Kingdom and Europe. It may be July right now,...

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The Oakland Public Library Puts Online a Collection of Items Forgotten in...

Librarians are champions of organization, and among its best practitioners. Books are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal system. Categories are assigned using Library of Congress Rule...

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Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public...

Though it may not figure prominently into the average whirlwind Eurail trip across the continent, Vienna’s role in the development of European culture as we know it can hardly be overstated. Granted,...

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The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public...

That vast repository of American history that is the Smithsonian Institution evolved from an organization founded in 1816 called the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Its...

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1,500 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Have Been Digitized & Put Online

Every artist explores dimensions of space and place, orienting themselves and their works in the world, and orienting their audiences. Then there are artists like Vincent van Gogh, who make space and...

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A New Online Archive Lets You Read the Whole Earth Catalog and Other Whole...

Today, if you want to get started in home brewing, shop for a synthesizer, find out what cybernetics is, order non-genetically-modified seeds, start your own mushroom farm, learn how to repair a...

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The Entire Manuscript Collection of Geoffrey Chaucer Gets Digitized: A New...

Earlier this year, Oxford professor of English literature Marion Turner published The Wife of Bath: A Biography. Even if you don’t know anything about that book’s subject, you’ve almost certainly...

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The New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 860,000 Historical Images:...

Back when we last featured the New York Public Library’s digital collections in 2016, they contained about 160,000 high-resolution images from various historical periods. This seemed like a fairly...

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The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like

Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we’ve been featuring their efforts to make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online. They’ve...

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Download 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries,...

Depending on how you reckon it, the “American century” has already ended, is now drawing to its close, or has some life left in it yet. But whatever its boundaries, that ambiguous period has been...

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