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NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities

arrr, a whale


oh look, it's you


this happens to me a lot


and this is what a sloth looks like


3 fine looking lads



oh, i cannot go to the bottom of the sea with you
you see i am a laaaaddyyyy


also thousands of illustrated cards from old cigaretter packs


gimme a smoke eh!


also

Michael Crichton received a "journalism" award this year for his book "State of Fear." Why would a novelist win a journalism award for a work of fiction? Well, the plot of "State of Fear" embodies Crichton's opinion that global warming is bullshit, and the presenter of the award is the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

The book is "demonstrably garbage," Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford climatologist, said in an interview yesterday. Petroleum geologists may like it, he said, but only because "they are ideologically connected to their product, which fills up the gas tanks of Hummers."