About

Archive Viewer is created and maintained by Samuel Bradshaw.

Feel free to contact me with questions or feedback! samuel@sbradshaw.net

Copyright information

Archive Viewer links to images and resources hosted on other websites. Some of these resources are copyrighted. Linking to copyrighted materials that are legally hosted on another website does not violate copyright. According to legal precedent, this includes hotlinking, inline linking, or embedding materials using HTML <img>, <svg>, <canvas>, <iframe>, <audio>, and <video> tags.

Most images displayed on Archive Viewer are hosted elsewhere, but occasionally, Archive Viewer may host low-resolution thumbnails of copyrighted images. Thumbnails facilitate research by helping users find resources more quickly. In cases where thumbnails are hosted by Archive Viewer, fair use protection is claimed.

Privacy policy

This section explains what data Archive Viewer collects from users, and how that data is used.

Anonymous information. Archive Viewer uses Google Analytics to track usage trends. This allows us to get an idea of how many users visit the site, how users get to the site (for example, via search), and where users come from (browser, country, etc.). Information gathered for analytics is aggregrated such that individual users are anonymous. Based on this information, Archive Viewer can be improved, to make sure that the most relevant content becomes easier to find.

Cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data from a website that a web browser stores, so that the website can refer back to them the next time the user visits the site. Cookies can be cleared at any time in browser settings. Archive Viewer stores the following types of cookies:

• User settings: Archive Viewer allow a user to change the theme, adjust view options, etc. These settings are stored as cookies.
• Resource history: A list of recently-viewed Archive Viewer resources is saved in local storage to allow users to quickly get back to where they were.
• Google Analytics: Google Analytics uses cookies to function properly. More information about how Google Analytics data is used can be found above.

Archive Viewer does not collect or store any personally identifiable information.

Statistics

Collections (groups or series of publications): 449 (287 with publications cataloged)
Cataloged publications (unique book editions, broadsides, periodical issues, etc.): 87538 (133 publication languages)
Cataloged resources (digitized items from various repositories): 113456 (5962286 cataloged page images)