##  [New blog: Thomas Smits - Can computer vision find illustrations of nineteenth-century railway crashes?](/news/new-blog-thomas-smits-can-computer-vision-find-illustrations-nineteenth-century-railway) 

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*One of our current KB Researchers-in-residence, [Thomas Smits](https://lab.kb.nl/person/thomas-smits), has written a new blog post on the work he will be doing at the KB Lab the coming months.*

### Can computer vision find illustrations of nineteenth-century railway crashes?

Sitting in the train to The Hague on the first day of my Researcher–in-residence project at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB), I thought about the time I first saw an image of train crash in a nineteenth-century illustrated newspaper. Having been interested in the Second World War and genocide for the most of my BA and MA, I decided I needed to take at least one course that focused on something entirely different. I chose a class on Nineteenth-Century periodicals because it seemed to be the furthest removed from my previous interest.

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