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If you need some vintage visual inspiration \u2013 or a real antique elements for an illustration, design or motion project \u2013 check out the British Library’s collection of over a million copyright-free images<\/a> that essentially you can do whatever you like with. The centuries-old copyright-free images range from book illustrations to photos, and cover everything from flowers to cycling and children’s books to maps.<\/p>\n

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Illustration from Funny Books for Boys and Girls. Struwelpeter. Good-for-nothing Boys and Girls. Troublesome Children. King Nutcracker and Poor Reinhol<\/a><\/em>. Found in the Chlidren’s Book Illustration collection<\/a>.<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you need some vintage visual inspiration \u2013 or a real antique elements for an illustration, design or motion project \u2013 check out the British Library’s collection of over a million copyright-free images that essentially you can do whatever you like with. The centuries-old copyright-free images range from book illustrations to photos, and cover everything… \u00a0Continue Reading: British Library offers over 1 million free vintage images for download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2005],"tags":[2022,2001],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-image-collections","tag-british-library","tag-digital-images"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":757,"url":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/artsmedialab\/new-york-public-library-digital-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":72,"position":0},"title":"New York Public Library Digital Gallery","author":"Mcnamara, Keri","date":"September 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more. 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