[Commons-l] Obtaining copies of old photos from the Library of Congress?

[David Gerard]

(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 at 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+ at 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
>