New little side project: Westward, an endless scroll of 1,000+ public-domain photographs of the American West from the Library of Congress, the Portal to Texas History, and SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

@jaheppler Very cool idea to put all of those sources together.

@manton And more to come!

@jasonheppler.org More image sources to come soon!

@jaheppler I hope this takes off and gets a ‘historicalbookimages.tumblr.com’ style feed. Would subscribe.

@jaheppler this is cool as hell, thanks

@jaheppler Very cool! This could serve as a fun database to assign students use for some primary source analysis.

@jaheppler Brilliant!

@markstoneman Thanks! More image sources coming soon, too. Maybe as soon as today.

@jaheppler This is so cool! Although it did just pull up a Florida photo for me, for some reason.

@jasonheppler.org Yeah I had some false positives, next version will clean those up 🙂

@jasonheppler.org ah! I just pushed a small edit that might fix it, otherwise it could be your browser caching the old version and you might need a hard refresh

(And very happy for feedback!)

@jaheppler Yes, I see it now!