Making the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection Browsable

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I built a website featuring the paintings at https://pomological.art and a [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mhoodlbpfiobhfbblii...](Chrome extension) that shows a random watercolor from the collection on each new tab.*The story*: In the 1880s the USDA commissioned 7,500+ botanical illustrations to document American fruit varieties in a time when we had over 14,000 types of apples. The collection got digitized after decades in government storage (thanks especially to Kent Whealy and then Parker Higgins), but it remains scattered across government sites, Wikimedia, and the Internet Archive, and difficult to really explore and dig into.*The site*: Lets you filter by crop type, browse b

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Website: pomological.art