Datasets:
license: cc0-1.0
19th Century United States Newspaper Advert images with 'illustrated' or 'non illustrated' labels
The Dataset contains images derived from the Newspaper Navigator, a dataset of images drawn from the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/).
The Newspaper Navigator dataset consists of extracted visual content for 16,358,041 historic newspaper pages in Chronicling America. The visual content was identified using an object detection model trained on annotations of World War 1-era Chronicling America pages, including annotations made by volunteers as part of the Beyond Words crowdsourcing project. source: https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
One of these categories is 'advertisements. This dataset contains a sample of these images with additional labels indicating if the advert is 'illustrated' or 'not illustrated'.
This dataset was created for use in an under-review [Programming Historian tutorial]http://programminghistorian.github.io/ph-submissions/lessons/computer-vision-deep-learning-pt1). The primary aim of the data was to provide a realistic example dataset for teaching computer vision for working with digitised heritage material. .