New York Public Library Public Domain Collections

Hyde reviews New York Public Library Public Domain Collections available at http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain. Users can download a wide range of digital materials, including papers from Founding Fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, and manuscripts from American authors like Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also contains iconic Farm Security Administration photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, and Lewis Hine's Ellis Island photographs. Users will also find Renaissance and medieval manuscripts, more than 20,000 maps, and thousands of other images, paintings, documents, and more.