{"id":2011,"date":"2010-11-18T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:45:24","slug":"images-for-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/2010\/11\/18\/images-for-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Where can I find Images for Documentaries?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Images are a critical part of any documentary. Listed below are several sites where you can find images to use in your documentaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Sites – Images for Documentaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/strong> – Visitors can quickly search the entire catalog of images or by specific collection<\/a>. These collections cover a wide variety of topics, including Cartoon Drawings<\/a>, Civil War Photographs<\/a>, Fenton Crimean War Photographs<\/a>, and Wright Brothers Negatives<\/a>. If available download the image<\/a> as a TIFF file for best quality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nLibrary of Congress Map Collection<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Visitors can search the entire collection<\/a> or by specific map type (i.e. Cities and Towns<\/a> ; Discovery and Exploration<\/a> ; Military Battles and Campaigns<\/a> ; Transportation and Communication<\/a> , etc) .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nNew York Public Library Digital Gallery<\/a> –<\/strong> Over 700,000 images from the New York Public Library’s collections are available through this digital gallery. One can search the entire gallery, by category (Cities & Buildings<\/a>, Industry & Technology<\/a>, etc) , or by a specific collection (, Early Landscape Photography of the American West<\/a>, etc)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nFlickr Commons<\/a> <\/strong>Over 50 institutions, including the Library of Congress<\/a> and the National Archives<\/a>, have added images to this collection.\u00a0Click here<\/a> to see a list of institutions that have participated in Flickr Commons. All of the images in this collection have \u201cno known copyright restrictions.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Flickr Commons – Civil War Era Images<\/h2>\n

Listed below are<\/p>\n

several institutions that have Civil War era material available on Flickr Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nCornell University Library – Political Americana<\/a> <\/strong>This collection contains a variety of material (including artifacts, photographs, prints, posters) related to US politics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nLibrary of Congress – Abraham Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>While only a small set, curators have selected images of Abraham Lincoln from different periods of his life as well as photographs of family members.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nSMU Central University Libraries – Civil War Photographs <\/a><\/strong>. This collection includes cartes-de-visite of Civil War soldiers and generals. The full digital collection is available here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nU.S. National Archives – Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs<\/a><\/strong> Over 6,000 images from this collection have been digitzed. You can browse the images by subject, including Appomattox<\/a>, Camp Scenes<\/a>, Richmond<\/a>, and Washington, DC<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Images are a critical part of any documentary. Listed below are several sites where you can find images to use in your documentaries. Selected Sites – Images for Documentaries – Visitors can quickly search the entire catalog of images or by specific collection. These collections cover a wide variety of topics, including Cartoon Drawings, Civil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}