Category:Vinkhuijzen collection

The Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms[edit]

The collection assembled by H. J. Vinkhuijzen (Hendrik Jacobus Vinkhuijze, c.1843-1910), a Dutch physician, and presented to the New York Public Library by Mrs. Henry Draper in 1911, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, from many sources, mounted in 762 scrapbooks. The collection is remarkably diverse, depicting costume as various as the rough wool garments of Bronze age Etruscan warriors, the robes of Ottoman Turk court officials, and the elaborate uniforms of the preening armies of 19th-century Europe, the collection's special strength.

The aesthetic quality of the images varies. There are prints seemingly cut from 17th-century festival books along with 19th-century chromolithographs, original watercolor compositions of some artistic merit, crude pencil drawings, and occasional photographs. Dr. Vinkhuijzen's usual strategy was to extract plates from illustrated books and magazines. He colored some of the printed images, and when printed images were lacking, drew others by hand. Some of the unsigned watercolors found in the collection may also be by him. He arranged his collection as loose images in boxes according to his own classification system; this organization is retained for browsing the digital collection. Source: New York Public Library

Where the NYPL has made JPG and TIFFs available at the same resolution, both are uploaded as the TIFF remains the most accurate representation of the original scan, however the JPG is more easily cropped and renders better thumbnails for transclusion to other projects. Refer to User:Fæ/Project_list/NYPL#Jpegs.