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Today’s project took a lot longer than an hour, and it consists of design and artwork that I didn’t make, but I hope you will agree that it was a worthwhile activity: I pulled out a bunch of cool images from this public domain book—

English Literature: An Illustrated Record in Four Volumes. Volume II: From the Age of Henry VIII to the Age of Milton. Part II, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905)

—cleaned them up in Photoshop, posted them to Flickr, tagged them, and typed out the captions and all the text that I could make out within the images, so that it’s all searchable.

Here’s a more detailed blog post about this project: A thin slice of history

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