“Long before The Library of Congress (LC) made the announcement last week about planning a World Digital Library (WDL), they've been digitizing material of all types for many years along with cataloging books (as you might expect) and offering MANY other services.
One searchable digitized collection from LC that you should know about is a catalog of imagery from the The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. As of today, 1 million digitized images are now available via the catalog. Access to the catalog is free.
It's possible to search the entire collection or individual collections one at a time. It's also possible to browse some of the collections. Finally, most of the images have been given subject access using the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials that now includes hyperlinked subjects for many images. I've also blogged about this thesaurus in the past. For the latest on what's happening at the Prints & Photographs Division, check out this 'What's New' page.”
From the SearchEngineWatch blog Posted by Gary Price
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051128-205524:
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