Learn about birds with 'The Burgess Bird Book for Children' from 1919. This collection features 35 stunning images by Louis A. Fuertes that bring the avian world to life.
This download features 35 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 300dpi and range in size from 1000 pixels wide/tall to 2195 pixels wide/tall.
This book was written by Thornton W. Burgess, an American conservationist and author of children's stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for his daily newspaper column.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
The pictures in our art collections are out of copyright in both the UK and the United States. Both countries have had quite different copyright criteria up until recently so read our blog post about public domain copyright rules in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries.
