Rare Civil War photos online

"Lincoln's Funeral," Philadelphia. Photographer: Ridgeway Glover. The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.   http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015645310/

The Library of Congress recently acquired Civil War Era photographs/stereographs from Robin G. Stanford, some of which have been digitized and placed online.

For more information about the collection, read this Washington Post article.

To see more images in this collection, go to the Library of Congress.

Calling all art lovers!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has many high resolution images of their art available online. Some of these works aren't even available to view by people who are visiting the museum. You can even download and use some of these images for educational purposes! Images like these below and much, much more.

Here are the terms and conditions for using these images. Look for the OASC symbol under the art object to make sure it is one that you can use for educational purposes. Also remember to give the artist and the Met credit!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
A Foggy Sky by John Frederick Kensett

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Summer Flowers by Henri Fantin-Latour

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh

Discovering Literature

Before Twilight--even before Dracula! Meet Varney the Vampyre!

The British Library has a new digital collection of literary gems from the Romantic and Victorian period. You can learn about the authors, themes, and even see scanned images of original works from this period.

In more digital library news...

It's being reported that Norway is going to digitize its entire National Library!

This info is probably not so useful to you unless you know Norwegian, but it is interesting to note that they are going to digitize everything that is still under copyright and grant access to these items to Norwegians. The rest of us should be able to see the items that are in the public domain.

It won't be up and running for a long while, but it is an interesting development for digital libraries!