I am surprised that the Internet Archive does not fully control the storage of their assets, or at least have some kind of contractual agreement with Flickr to prevent this from occurring.
But for all the greatness of Internet Archive (and it is truly great!) it doesn’t have the user-interface for images that Flickr has, the ability to save to galleries, add tags, and effectively search. That’s why it was such a marriage made in heaven. As far as we are aware, with the IA Book Images account gone, there is now no way to search for individual images from the hundreds of thousands of books at Internet Archive> or at least have some kind of contractual agreement with Flickr to prevent this from occurring.
None of this is relevant. IA deleted their account because it wasn't a fit for Flickr. It was a mutually consensual separation.
Yeah, ok, I actually believe that.