The Jewish National & University Library Collection
The Jewish National and University Library in Israel have about 30 childrens books available that range from 1879 to 1928 from the subject list. [link updated Nov 2011] The majority are from the early 1920s.
Viewing the books requires a DjVu browser plugin. You can then download individual pages if you want, which are only modestly sized but enormous when opened in an image viewing program like Irfanview. (eg. a 350kb DjVu file opens to ~6000 x 3000 pixel image).
The above images are a random assortment from a dozen or so books which I touched up slightly.
Beautiful stuff yet again.
ReplyDeleteOn-site the JNUL can sometimes be quite an uphill battle, but during the last few years their development of on-line resources is most impressive. Every month they add dozens of titles to their digital book project. I usually only look at the rabbinic material, now I know what other treasures they have.
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous. Every time I visit your blog I leave visually stunned.
ReplyDeleteI especially like "Floral King" -- which strikes me as very fractal.