Over the years the City of Vancouver Archives have done a great job of digitizing much of their collection of more than 1,000,000 photos of our city's past, making them available for everyone to enjoy.
Over the years the
City of Vancouver Archives have done a great job of digitizing much of their collection of more than 1,000,000 photos of our city's past, making them available for everyone to enjoy. And while nerds like me tend to do searches just to look at the images on their website there are
so many that are available in high resolution, for free, that are just begging to get printed onto paper. They're free mostly because after a certain amount of time the copyright on photos expires, putting them into the public domain; anyone can then use them for any purpose.
We've put together 12 incredible public domain black and white images from the Archives in this slideshow below, linking to the high resolution JPG file for each of them. Click the link of the one you want, download it, get it printed and then hang it on your wall! Or visit the archives search tool
HERE and find your own. Just make sure you do an 'Advanced Search' and under the 'Copyright Status' tab on the left click 'Public Domain' and all the images that come up are yours.