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Photographs, manuscripts, sheet music and film from the largest library in the world, mostly free to reuse.
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Library of Congress Digital Collections sits in History & Time under Learn, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Historical maps, timelines, primary sources and the strange experience of seeing a moment in time laid out as an interface.
Yes. Library of Congress Digital Collections is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Library of Congress Digital Collections without signing up for anything.
Yes. Library of Congress Digital Collections works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
The searchable index of American federal records, running from founding documents to recently declassified memos.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Search hundreds of thousands of scanned historical maps by place and date, held by libraries worldwide.
Eighty thousand New York photographs from the 1870s onwards, mapped to the corners they were shot on.
Cameras pointed at geysers, glaciers, harbours and whichever volcano is currently misbehaving, plus a northern lights feed in winter.
Thousands of curated palettes, from Game Boy green to 64-colour monsters, each downloadable in every format going.
The official Escher archive: the impossible staircases, the tessellations, and his own notes on how he worked them out.
A convincing macOS desktop rebuilt in Svelte, dock animations included, running entirely inside the browser.
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