The NYPL Digital Gallery: A Feast For The Nostalgia Lover's Eye

Question: Where on the Web can you find rare photographs and images about the Civil War, the early years of baseball, streetscapes of New York City at the turn of the 20th century and so much more of interest to the serious nostalgia lover?

Answer: One of the best places to look is The New York Public Library Digital Gallery. This online repository of more than 550,000 images includes the following impressive collections:

• Civil War Medical Care: Photographs from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection, 1861-1872
• Early Landscape Photography of the American West
• "America's National Game:" The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs
• Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s

Just a few short years ago if you wanted to see these types of pictures you would've had to visit a library and view them on microfilm. Today, thanks to the power of the Web you can see them right on your computer screen-quickly and easily!