This lesson includes information on working with old photographs and taking new photographs. We are planning to add more information on archival issues surrounding physical or digital photographs to our resources.

Photographs

• When should you use photographs?

How to share photographs online

How to take clear photographs of buildings and landscapes

How to use open licensing for your own photographs

The Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons are both good sources for public domain images.

How to find public domain or creative commons licensed images

How to find historic images from archives and special collections

• Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage http://www.mdch.org/collections.aspx
• Pratt Library Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/34900073@N07/
• Maryland State Archives: Photographic Archives of Maryland http://mdhistpics.net/
• UMBC Hughes Company Glass Negatives Collection http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/hughes.php
• Baltimore City Archives Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimore_city_archives/
• University of Baltimore Special Collections http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubarchives/
• The Baltimore Museum of Industry Collections Database http://baltmusindustry.pastperfect-online.com/
• The Jewish Museum of Maryland Collections Database http://jmm.pastperfect-online.com/00005cgi/mweb.exe?request=ks
• Baltimore County Public Library Legacy Web http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&type=Keyword&term=*&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=dmc&query=&page=0
• Maryland Historical Society http://www.mdhs.org/digital-images
• Maryland Historical Society Tumblr http://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/
• LOC: Photos included HABS/HAER http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
• LOC: HABS/HAER http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/  

How to scan historic images

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