(29 August 2014) The BBC website reports that an American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images.
Kalev Leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to Flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added.
The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation.
Read the illustrated story by Leo Kelion here.
