Bowdoin College Archives?
Press Information | NYPL Digital Gallery Launches
Free Online Collection of 275,000 Images from World-Renowned New York Public Library Launches March 3
Civil War Photographs, Illuminated Manuscripts, Japanese Prints, New York City Views, Early American Maps, and More Available in Unparalleled Database of Rare Items
This is a huge wow. They had to temporarily take the site offline because interest was too high. They are increasing capacity to meet demand.
These are selected items from the entire NYPL collection. The only technical information I know of is some storage staats, managed in Oracle, xml and meta-data using Lucene to provide search, and Cold Fusion is the binder.