(forwarded and answering)
Fantastic! Thank you!
Now then everyone, let's see what else we can find ...
- d.
On 01/10/2007, Dave Pape <depape(a)buffalo.edu> wrote:
(For some reason my e-mail was bounced, saying I'm
not permitted to post
to the list, so I'm sending this to you directly until I have a chance to
find out what went wrong.)
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, David Gerard wrote:
I'm looking for replacements for
[[:en:Image:Gifford-pinchot.jpg]],
which happens to be the same image as [[:commons:Image:Gifford
Pinchot.jpg]] - it's US State, not US Federal, so may not be PD. The
LOC has some lovely pics, all pre-1923:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,got
tscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,n
clc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb,:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(++Pinchot,+Gifford,+1865
+1946++))
So, it says "we have the neg." How does one get access to a scannable
copy of the full-sized thing? Would they have a large scan available,
not just the thumbnail? Etc., etc.
If the info page has a thumbnail, then the high-resolution scan is also
online (in every case I've encountered so far). You just have to learn
the naming scheme, either by poking around directories or checking the
links for other photos in the same collection.
For example, the Pinchot photo
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c03915
has its full-res copy at
http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c03000/3c03900/3c03915u.tif
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Dave Pape Assistant Professor
http://resumbrae.com/ Media Study, University at Buffalo