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Just as I could spend hours in a library, I can do the same with a great online database.

From The Getty’s Tumblr account, this wonderful collage made with Open Content materials:

http://thegetty.tumblr.com/post/67487799884/can-you-identify-the-4-getty-open-content-artworks?utm_medium=email&utm_source=html&utm_campaign=weekly_top_posts_subject_5&utm_term=post_67487799884

Exploring The Getty’s Open Content database is a library lover’s dream.  http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=highlight&f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&rows=10&srt=a&dir=s&pg=1

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.  http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

Search or browse and find some wonders:

A Basilisk illumination

http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=305961

An 1874 photograph of Sarah Bernhardt

http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=62674

A William Henry Jackson photograph of “Old Faithful”.  You can’t get that close any more! http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=56705

There are also sound recordings like:

Recording by Dr. Joe Kamiya of Alpha brainwaves

http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&afterPDS=true&institution=01GRI&docId=GETTY_DTL5715593

I don’t know why that would be useful, but I like knowing it’s there.