[MCN-L] electronic image files in the public domain

[Richard Urban]

Hi Wendy,

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project aggregates records  
from more than 200 collections digitized using IMLS funds.  Many of  
the items included should be in the public domain, although you may  
still need to jump through the usual hoops to get permission.

The Creative Commons site also has a list of sites with CC licensed  
images at: http://creativecommons.org/image

The Wikimedia Commons also has images, but frequently these seem to  
come from LOC or other public collections - but the nice thing is that  
they aggregate images from different places under a single person.  http://commons.wikimedia.org 
   Seems particularly rich for pictures of politicos...

Richard Urban, Graduate Research Assistant
Collection and Item Metadata Relationships Group
IMLS DIgital Collections and Content Project
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
rjurban at uiuc.edu
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu

On Jan 23, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Wendy Miller wrote:

> Hello -
>
> I'm doing some research for an online exhibition organized by the
> International Museum of Women, the scope of which includes finding  
> dynamic
> images of historical and contemporary political figures and events.
>
> I realize that many colleagues on this list serv may have come across
> preferred websites or search engines for finding caches of images in  
> the
> public domain. I'd appreciate any recommendations of web sites or  
> search
> engines that have been particularly content-rich or useful in that  
> regard.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -- 
> Wendy Miller
> WM ARTSMANAGEMENT LLC
> wm.artsmanagement at gmail.com
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