<p>Rejoice, all ye illustrators and designers, at least if your work involves antiquarian subjects. The British Library has just posted more than a million copyright-free images to its Flickr photostream, and the pickings are choice if you need to illustrate anything from phrenology to 17th century geological theories.</p><p>The images come from the Mechanical Curator, a British Library project to scan more than 65,000 books from the 16th to 19th centuries. (Rather a drop in the bucket of the library's collection of 13 million volumes, but one must start somewhere.)</p><p><a href="http://petapixel.com/2013/12/17/british-library-adds-1-million-public-domain-images-flickr/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/dec/16/british-library-flickr-art-free-masterpieces">The British Library is still one Flickr away from making all art free</a> (The Guardian (blog))</p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/historic-images-brought-into-21st-century-after-being-posted-on-flickr-by-british-library-9006290.html">Historic images brought into 21st century after being posted on Flickr by ...</a> (The Independent)</p><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/british-library-sticks-1-million-pics-on-flickr-asks-for-help-making-them-useful/">British Library sticks 1 million pics on Flickr, asks for help making them useful</a> (Ars Technica)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d6l7AafkbvatuBMWmVT8ZUaBGyYYM&ned=us">35 additional articles.</a></p>