Curated datasets

The datasets here represent over a million of the best, directly accessible objects - newspapers, books, photos, art, artifacts, audio clips and more.

Data Updated: 6 November 2023
First World War maps preserved by the British Library
Collections Academic Research First-world-war
This collection of digital items of maps from the First World War is administrated by the British Library.
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Greek holdings from the Bodleian Libraries
Collections Academic Research Greece history-of-philosophy ancient-history religious-literature philosophy
Collection of 2,470 images of Greek manuscripts which includes not only texts and illuminated manuscripts from the Byzantine empire and Renaissance Italy, but also an important accumulation of papyri from the ancient world.
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Vintage photographs of Vienna
Collections Creative industries History Tourism Architecture Geodata
Historical photographs of the famous Ringstrasse carefully curated by the Austrian National Library for the street's 150th anniversary.
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Bookplates from the Romanian National Library
Collections Creative industries Library bookplates
90 historical bookplates from the 16th century up to the early 20th century.
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Historical fashion drawings, prints and patterns
Collections Creative industries Fashion Drawings Prints patterns
Over 2,000 historical fashion drawings and prints, as well as sewing and embroidery patterns.
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Life in a 20th-century Dutch county
Collections Creative industries Photographs
Almost 10,000 archival (black-and-white) photographs of the Dutch Eemland region, showing cities, events and daily life.
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Dutch heritage in a nutshell
Collections Creative industries Artefacts illustrations
An extensive and striking variety of more than 71,000 documents of Dutch ethnographic, scientific, cultural, popular and colonial heritage.
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Wiki loves Swedish monuments
Collections Creative industries Wikimedia Tourism Photographs
More than 14,000 contributions by users to the Wikimedia Commons' Wiki Loves Monuments project, showing Sweden's natural, architectural and historical monuments in all their beauty.
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Manuscript illuminations from the Austrian National Library
Collections Creative industries Art Drawings Manuscripts Natural-history
More than 200 illustrations from codices on swordsmanship and natural history.
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19th and 20th-century Lithuania in photographs
Collections Creative industries History Tourism Photographs Architecture
A rich collection of more than 20,000 historic photos preserved at various Lithuanian museums. Taken between 1838 and 1939, they depict scenes from village life and Lithuanian ethnography, as well as historical images of cities and architectural monuments.
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