The TFAO Digital Library
(above: Norman Rockwell, Fishing Trip, They'll Be Coming Back Next Week, 1919, oil on canvas, 29 x 29 inches, Norman Rockwell Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
On 4/27/26 the online TFAO Digital Library had these file counts:
Text:
Text total = 10,713
Image:
Image total = 25,416
Grand total of text and image files = 36,129
A word about AI...
Historically, search engine activity has been the largest driver of access to our site's contents. Because of the way search algorithms work, our page files sometimes aren't included in the first or second page of search results, even though our content's quality often surpasses that served up by the algorithms. Many of our Topics in American Art like California Art History are often listed on the first page of search results. Commercial organizations and large institutions spend vast sums on SEO to drive inquiries to their sites. We don't. Our site's image files have been copied hundreds of thousands of times. Many copies may be found at the top of image searches.
Here's where AI changes the game and amplifies the value of our content: AI large language models often scrape the entire contents of our Free Online Digital Library. Our site's millions of words are sliced and diced into a stew that's reformulated into answers to AI users' prompts.
The public education element of our mission - via our site's contents - isn't constrained any more by search engines. It's reborn into endless results of AI prompts.
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