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Tip of the month: Prelinger Archives

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The archivist, writer and filmmaker Rick Prelinger founded the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. Prelinger has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 1,970 films available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse.

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Pictura Paedagogica

Die Entdeckung Amerikas

Discovery of America. - Copper engraving, 65 x 101 mm. In: Der Mensch von Anbeginn bis auf unsre Zeiten / Hempel, Friedrich Wilhelm. - Leipzig, 1809 = [1809]. - S. 174/175, Pictura Paedagogica Online, Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung, IDN=b0014875berl

The image database Pictura Paedagogica - a co-operation between the Library for Research of Educational History (BBF), Berlin and the Institute for Applied Educational Science and General Didactics at the University of Hildesheim, provides access to illustrations from children’s and schoolbooks, bibles and atlases, postcards and magazines of the 15th-20th century.

Woodcuts, copper- and steel-engravings, also photographs can be searched by title, names, subjects or by time chart. In addition to a free working-copy of the picture (an image with a resolution of 75 dpi) it is possible to order a high-quality reproduction.

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