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The New York Public Library has launched the Picture Collection Online(PCO). PCO contains digitized historical public domain images of suchsubjects as New York City, Costumes, and American History.  A total of30,000 images, all selected from the Reference File of The New York PublicLibrary's Picture Collection, will be available on PCO by late 2003.  Thesite is accessible at http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco. Typisch Public Library, oder? Wann werden in Deutschland vergleichbare Sammlungen des kollektiven Gedächnisses einmal online zugänglich gemacht? [via diglib]