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Millions of historic images posted to Flickr

Millions of historic images posted to Flickr
by Robert Miller, Global Director of Books, Internet Archive “Reading a book from the inside out!”. Well not quite, but a new way to read our eBooks has just been launched. Check out this great BBC article: Here is the fabulous Flickr commons collection: And here is our welcome to Flickr’s Common Post: What is it and how did it get done? How many images are there? What is fun to do with this collection? Future plans? Questions about this collection, projects or things to come?

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