February 1-5 is #ColorOurCollections Week

By Jessamyn West | Published: January 31, 2016

There are a lot of neat public domain images in our collections. We’ve highlighted them in the past and continue to encourage people to use, remix and share our content. This week for the #ColorOurCollections event, we’ve pulled out some especially colorable images and made them into PDFs that you can print out and color. We’ve created a few pairs of images we think you’ll like. Here are the images and links to the books where you can find and download even more. If you just want to download a zip file of all eight images, click here.

Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton (download printable PDF images: one, two)

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians by George Catlin (download printable PDF images: one, two)

Ancient Greek female costume by J. Moyr Smith (download printable PDF images: one, two)

Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by John Obadiah Westwood (download printable PDF images: one, two)

Bonus seed catalog carnation from 1896 (download printable PDF)

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Jen Collins

Posted February 4, 2016 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

Love this–thanks, Jessamyn!

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