Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Search more than 1 trillion websites and millions of free texts, movies, music and more.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
More than 9,200 "ephemeral" films from the mid-20th century, all free to stream and download. The collection preserves the kinds of films that were never meant to survive: corporate training reels, Cold War propaganda, educational shorts, home movies, and advertising.
The Buttolph collection of menus - NYPL Digital Collections
The New York Public Library has been collecting restaurant menus since the 1890s, and the crowdsourced project has over 17,500 of them so far dating from 1843 to 2008. The archive was started with one woman, Frank E. Buttolph, who spent 25 years writing to restaurants, marching into dining rooms, and placing ads in trade publications to build the collection from scratch
NYPL Digital Collections
Explore 1,071,408 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
Explore 1,071,408 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection
One collector's obsession turned into a 145,000 map archive now housed at Stanford University. The maps span the 16th through 21st centuries and cover every continent, and many can be overlaid onto Google Earth to compare historical cartography against modern satellite imagery.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Over 58 million pages of natural history literature dating back to 15th century including more than 150,00 botanical and animal illustration.