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Fantastic! Thank you!

Now then everyone, let's see what else we can find ...

- d.

On 01/10/2007, Dave Pape depape@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

-- Dave Pape Assistant Professor http://resumbrae.com/ Media Study, University at Buffalo