This is an image dataset consisting of 4595 old photographs (until 1940) from the collections of the Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA, obtained from the Finna.fi discovery service.
The images are intended to be used for different AI/ML tasks such as generating captions or colorizing them.
The images themselves are JPEG files under the directory images.
The metadata.jsonl file contains metadata about each image, for example… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/NatLibFi/Finna-JOKA-images.