ABCDeology

I stumbled into the image archives of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Most of the descriptions were in German, some things semi-translated into brief summaries in English. Although I could not fully understand the text, the images are by turns gorgeous, high definition, historic and scientific.

BibliOdyssey has a few illustrious Dutch picture book cover illustrations up from The Memory of the Netherlands’ ‘Picture Books from 1810 to 1950′ website – which features 650 antique children’s books free to view in full and download. Going to waste a lot of time if I start trawling through those archives with illustrations as gorgeous as the ones PK linked