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An academic is posting millions of historic photos and illustrations to Flickr where they can be searched and copied without charge.
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.
Link to actual collection: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/with/14784850762/
