The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an “open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives,” has for many years been making it easy for people to connect to nature through nature writing and illustration. On Flickr, you can find 319,000 carefully curated images. The collection itself is subdivided into different photo albums drawn from historical publications. For example, The Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles (1911), The Bird (1869), and The Insect Book (1901).

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