The Picture Collection Online (PCO)

The Picture Collection Online (PCO) is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923, providing an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. Covering over 12,000 subjects, PCO is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of its kind in any public library system. Funded by a federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant, and a private donation, the first installation of PCO was launched in 2002.

PCO is user‐friendly, has...