The British Library, one of the world's great archival organizations, has published a huge store of illustrations, paintings, maps, and other visual materials from its catalog of books from the 17th to 19th centuries. The materials number over one million items, and all are in the public domain. This is a fantastic resource for research, inspiration, or just some fun browsing. I've pasted some examples below.
By the way, it has come to my attention that the emails which accompany my blog postings are missing the images, probably due to some mysterious security function within the Sheridan Server that sends them out. The blog itself is fine, though, so please take a look there if you want to see the images in the post. ( http://sheridan4thyear.blogspot.ca )
The complete British Library archive is available from Flickr at:
one million public domain scans
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