New York Public Library Releases 187K Public Domain Images in Hi-Res

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"we are proud to announce that out-of-copyright materials in NYPL Digital Collections are now available as high-resolution downloads. No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse! 

The release of more than 180,000 digitized items represents both a simplification and an enhancement of digital access to a trove of unique and rare materials: a removal of administration fees and processes from public domain content, and also improvements to interfaces — popular and technical —the digital assets themselves. ...... The public domain release spans the breadth and depth of NYPL's holdings, from the Library's rich New York City collection, historic maps, botanical illustrations, unique manuscripts, photographs, ancient religious texts, and more. "

-New York Public Library Press Release.

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• Indians of North America
• "Bowles' new pocket map of the following independent states of North America: viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island: comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians"
• 1784
• "Indian Mounds, St. Paul Minn."
• 1898-1931
• "Indian mound, Cedar Key, Fla."
• "A general map of the middle British colonies in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island : of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio and Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage and Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain, and of part of New-France : wherein is also shewn the antient and present seats of the Indian nations"
• 1758
• "John Maskwas, Pottawatomie"
• 1898
• "Group portrait of Native American students on the steps of the United States Indian Industrial Training School"
• 187?
• "Ball players"
• 1845
• "Ball-play dance"
• 1845
• "Ball play"
• 1845
• "Population of Albany County & Indians 1689-1698"
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• After Columbus: Four-Hundred Years of Native American Portraiture
• Album of Drawings of Sioux Indians
• American Medical Botany, Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, with Coloured Engravings
• Atlases of the United States
• Brazil Miscellaneous Collections
• Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio
• Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection
• Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
• Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas.
• Emmet Collection of Manuscripts etc. Relating to American History
• Geographia Americae: with an Account of the Delaware Indians: Based on surveys and notes made in 1654-1656
• History of Cumberland (Maryland) from the time of the Indian town, Caiuctucuc, in 1728, up to the present day: embracing an account of Washington's first campaign, and battle of Fort Necessity, together with a history of Braddock's expedition
• History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical....
• Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. By John L. Stephens....
• Indian Photographs
• I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints
• Virginia Nieu Neder-landt. Nieu Engelandt. 1651, Joost Hartgers.
• Indian Studies: Photographs by Karl Moon, Grand Canyon
• Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk, Embracing the Tradition of His Nation......
• The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
• Maps of New York City and State
• Maps of North America
• Maps of North and South America
• Maps of South America
• Photographs of American Indians
• Photographs of Indians of the Southwest and the Plains
• Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States
• Souvenir of the N. American Indians, as They Were in the Nineteenth Century...
• Voyage dans l'Intériur de l'Amérique du Nord,... 1832,1833 et 1834, par le Prince Maximilien de Wied-Neuwied.
• Voyage Pittoresqe et Historique Au Brésil......
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