I own a number of old and antiquarian books, and many of them have got really neat pictures in them. I thought it was a shame that no-one but me could see them, so I started putting them online.
I also collect old dictionaries, and over the years I've typed (and later scanned) some of the dictionary entries.
The images here are mostly scanned at 1200dpi or higher, often up to 2400dpi; if you would like a high-resolution scan, just ask, either with email or using the Comment link on the page for the image you need. A donation would be appreciated; you'd probably pay $500 or more if I put the images on a microstock site.
Web hosting for an image server used to be expensive, but today it's not too bad, and the adverts pay for it. But please don't try to download all the images. For one thing, your robot will get into search links, and for another, after 100 gigabytes or so it'll all stop working for everyone.
The Web server is running Linux with Apache; it was previously running FreeBSD with Apache. We need somewhere with SQL hosting (e.g. via MySQL), because the Search facility uses both an XML database and a relational database (read more about how the search works).
I have an Epson E10000 2400/4800dpi computer scanner, and use that together with xsane and The GIMP on Linux, and also (because of the better colour support) Adobe PhotoShop on Microsoft Windows.
This is a hobby, a private interest site. The good news is that the Google ads make it pay for itself, I hope without being too obtrusive. But please don't click on the ads just to help me; follow the ads only if they are useful to you. If you want to donate, there's a button on the main page to use paypal, or help the project by scanning images yourself, or by improving the keywords and metadata. Or just enjoy the texts and pictures, and that's fine too!
I am Liam at holoweb dot net; let me know if you'd like me to scan specific images, or higher resolution copies, or have any interesting uses for these images, or like them. Tell me what colour socks you are wearing. For faster service include a picture of your ankles.