Who uses the online images?
Last year more than 1.5 million users conducted 8.1 million searches on the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. People from all walks of life use the images for a variety of purposes, from personal to professional. People seek images for family genealogies, homework assignments and doctoral dissertations. Authors and Web site creators look for images to illustrate their works. Publishers feature images in their books and calendars. People involved in architectural restoration or documentary filmmaking consult the images to re-create accurately various aspects of the past. Left, night in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y., 1905; right, “Night Rain at 10 p.m.” by Kikukawa Eizan, ca. 1820, is one of hundreds of rare Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in the Library’s collections.
